By Chris Willman, Variety | (Well, now, here’s an advantage to not having physical CD copies of your album! Co-writer pisses you off – you just take his song off Spotify!) | Zach Bryan removed one of the tracks from his latest blockbuster album, “The Great American Bar Scene,” after his collaborator on the track, fellow singer-songwriter John Moreland, took a shot at him on social media. The track, titled “Memphis; The Blues,” is now either absent from or grayed out on streaming services, although Bryan promised on Instagram that the song would return — presumably minus Moreland’s vocal contribution to the song they co-wrote.
The beef started with Moreland taking to Instagram and posting an image of the tattooed back of his head accompanied by the words “$350M is a lot of money to pay for the fu–in off-brand version of me. Y’all have a great day.” Moreland’s message refers to a $350 million number that was reported by Variety earlier this week as the combined value of the deals Bryan is making to renew his contract with Warner Records and sell his publishing catalog.
Although Moreland soon deleted the message, it caught the attention of Bryan, who shared a screenshot of the attack on him in a pair of Instagram Stories posts of his own. Bryan captioned Moreland’s broadside with a reply: “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.”
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