On the advice of Doug Johnson, Brice moved to Nashville, where Johnson would later sign the fledgling songwriter to a publishing contract as soon as he became an A&R man at Curb Records. He earned a scholarship to Clemson University, but once he suffered an arm injury he decided to devote himself to music. In addition to music, Brice played football. The performing bug bit him in high school, where he won the school's talent contest for three straight years, and he started to expand his horizons, spending time listening to rock & roll but settling on Garth Brooks as his idol. Next came the guitar, and by the age of ten he had started writing his own songs, partially under the influence of his father's favorite artists, the Oak Ridge Boys and Alabama. A native of Sumter, South Carolina, he learned how to sing at church and when he was seven, he began playing piano. Relentless By that point, Brice had been toiling away at a career for the better part of a decade. The latter is what first brought him attention in Nashville - he penned songs for Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, and his idol Brooks - but the former is what turned him into a star in the early years of the 2010s. He wasn't adverse to good times - he had a country hit in 2013 called 'Parking Lot Party' - but he specialized in heart-on-sleeve ballads like 'A Woman Like You,' 'Hard to Love,' 'I Drive Your Truck,' and 'I Don't Dance,' Top Ten country singles that showcased his supple, weathered voice and skilled song structure.

Also raised on a combination of contemporary rock and post-Garth Brooks country, Brice gravitated toward craft, not bluster.

At the dawn of the 2010s, a time when mainstream country teemed with buff hunks singing party-hearty anthems, Lee Brice offered a subtler alternative.

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