When the history of 21st-century country is written, Luke Bryan's name will head a chapter. His ability to blend his country twang with urban grooves, allowing back-porch banjo and hip-hop beats to live together in hook-heavy tunes, has had a huge effect on Nashville's direction. But even though Bryan achieves the ideal mix of urban and rural vibes on party-starting cuts such as “Kick the Dust Up” and “That's My Kind of Night", he sounds just as natural tearing into a fiddle-fuelled honky-tonker like “All My Friends Say” or an ode to down-home living like the earthy anthem “Country Man".