<p>There will be thousands of guys and gals in cowboy hats across Nashville this week, but one man in particular will be on stage with a twang you can hear all the way from his hometown in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.</p>
<p>Legit bluegrass roots inspire his &#8220;real country music&#8221; sound — and lucky for the fans who haven&#8217;t heard him yet, Spencer Hatcher is just getting started.</p>
<p>The 29-year-old first stepped on stage as a teenager in his family&#8217;s bluegrass band, playing what he calls the &#8220;rawest&#8221; form of music for anyone who would listen.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The very first couple of shows, we were doing it for nothing … it was for probably 40 or 50 people at the retirement home not too far from my home,&#8221; Hatcher told The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>It was no Broadway in Nashville — but for a guy from Broadway, Virginia, it was a way to get him in front of a crowd.</p>
<p>&#8220;I remember just being mortified, like terrified up there. We were all sweating and forgetting the words,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The retirement home didn&#8217;t care about the teen&#8217;s musical mishaps, but the small-town grind prepared Hatcher for his eventual solo career in Nashville — where he&#8217;s inked his first music deal and is now opening for big names including Zach Top, Hank Williams Jr., and Diamond Rio.</p>
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<p>He has two shows this week in Nashville as part of CMA Fest, the Music City’s premiere week-long celebration of country music, where the fans get to experience their favorite artists in intimate settings.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s Hatcher&#8217;s second year being part of CMA Fest, and he&#8217;ll kick things off on Tuesday night at Riley Green’s Duck Blind. On Thursday night, he&#8217;ll take the stage at Chief’s on Broadway.</p>
<p>&#8220;Last year was my first year, and it was incredible, but before that, I had not even attended CMA Fest,&#8221; Hatcher said. &#8220;I&#8217;m wildly excited. I believe it is the biggest week in all of Nashville as far as people coming, the attendance … it&#8217;s absurd for CMA Fest.&#8221;</p>
<p>While people from all over come to Nashville to make music, Hatcher takes pride in keeping the old-fashioned country sound&#8230; and lifestyle.</p>
<p>&#8220;Anybody can be &#8216;country,&#8217; but you gotta go live &#8216;country,'&#8221; Hatcher said.</p>
<p>In between managing his ever-growing tour schedule and follower count — he&#8217;s approaching 1 million social media followers and has already produced more than a million streams of his songs, including his latest hit &#8220;When She Calls Me Cowboy&#8221; — he still finds time to get outside where he feels most at ease.</p>
<p>&#8220;Working out in a field or doing something productive that&#8217;s not necessarily like your business work is where I get a lot of peace,&#8221; Hatcher said. &#8220;If you&#8217;re like bush hogging a field or making hay or something in the evening — that to me is really peaceful.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lifestyle he leads is clearly reflected in the songs he sings — and Hatcher says he&#8217;ll keep writing songs that bring back what he describes as &#8220;traditional country music&#8221; as he continues introducing music fans to his name, one concert at a time.</p>

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