LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Country fans widely consider the 90s and early 2000s as the golden era of country music. Before Bro Country and the pop takeover, males artists like Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Tracy Lawrence, and duo Brooks & Dunn wrote simple lyrics dripping with authenticity and produced melodies that served as the soundtrack for many local lives.

On Saturday, June 27 the Lynchburg Chamber will host a modern artist who channels these greats as Cody Cozz makes his debut in Lynchburg at Frontier Days.

Cody sings about simple things and simpler times — Friday nights with your crush, cruising down backroads, and love that soars then eludes your grasp — all with steel guitar dripping slow melodies.

You may recognize him from his 2022 radio single, “On My Way” — a song about that heady, infatuating love that gets you speeding on a rural backroad. The “On My Way” music video premiered on CMT shortly after the song’s release in June. There’s also “Where I’ve Been Lately” — a song about his quest to make it big in Nashville while feeling homesick for the mountain backdrop of his small hometown.

The rising country music star hails from Pueblo, Colorado but now lives in Nashville where he’s working his way up the charts and opening for artists like Chris Young, Josh Turner, Trace Adkins, and his idol, Travis Tritt. His most popular streaming single, “Friday Me” enjoys over 700,000 total streams.

Read together, that mean Cody is about to take off and you’ll get an opportunity to say, “I saw him in Lynchburg right before he made it big.”

If you want to learn more about him, visit his website or check out his music on Apple Music and Spotify. He’ll play Saturday night during Frontier Days from 7-9 p.m. on the historic Lynchburg Square. It’s a free show brought to you by the Jack Daniel Employee Credit Union. •

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