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Last month, Zach Bryan removed his song “Memphis; the Blues” from streaming after the song’s featured collaborator John Moreland sparred with him on social media. Making good on his promise to replace it with a new version, Bryan has released an updated rendition featuring his band keyboardist J.R. Carroll.
“Promise is a promise,” wrote Bryan on Instagram. “Honored to have done this with one of my best friends in the world. Catch us belting this in Europe and across the states all summer.”
Bryan’s latest move comes on the heels of a tense back-and-forth beef with Moreland, who was initially featured on the song off Bryan’s hit album “The Great American Bar Scene.” In May, Moreland reacted to news that Bryan had scored a $350 million pair of label and publishing deals, which Variety had reported earlier that week. “$350M is a lot of money to pay for the fu—in off-brand version of me,” he wrote on social media. “Y’all have a great day.”
Though Moreland deleted his message, Bryan caught wind of it and responded with a pair of Instagram stories of his own. “Yooo just saw this from an artist I’ve always respected and supported. Not trying to be dramatic but refuse to have anyone with a problem with me on my records. Replacing ‘Memphis the Blues.’ If it goes down for a bit just know this is the reason! No hard feelings! Confused as shit, Tulsans look out for Tulsans.”
In a separate post, he wrote, “Last thing I say on it! Not partial to arguing with butt hurt grown men.”
After Bryan removed the song from streaming, Moreland stated that he had no regrets about taking a shot at him. “As far as I’m concerned, getting kicked off a Zach Bryan album is way fucking cooler than being on a Zach Bryan album,” he said on Instagram.
“At this point, I’ve hung out with him five, six times. I don’t like this motherfucker. Like, am I supposed to be upset?” He continued by saying that “if I was asked to be on the album today, I wouldn’t do it. I don’t want to be on an album with a dude who is a dickhead to my wife and my friends right in front of me every time I see him. I don’t want to be on an album with a dude who I’ve heard tell borderline racist jokes more than once. I don’t want to be on an album with a dude who brings a 19-year-old girl in the bar, and then when they tell him she can’t be in there, looks at me like I’m supposed to have his fucking back. I don’t like that person.”
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