Rising Stars: Meet Rob Georg

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rob Georg. Them and their team share their story with us below:

Country music has always been regarded as an American sound bred in the southern regions, but if fans have learned anything from the likes of Keith Urban, country music can come up from anywhere in the world. This leads us to the german radio cowboy himself, Rob Georg.

Very few would imagine a cowboy from Germany, but Rob Georg just does not wear the label, he lives the lifestyle. He spent the first chapter of his life as a professional equestrian athlete in the discipline of cutting. Here cowboys work cattle from horseback, all in true country fashion. He has won various championship titles that have led him to participate in the highly endowed tournament, the world series.

For an entire decade, Georg was traveling across American cutting arenas with his trainer Dean Terry. With the many miles spent together on the highways, the two soon connected a deep friendship. When Terry passed away in January 2018 and Georg’s beloved soul horse “Primetime Shorty” also crossed the rainbow bridge just one month later, a world broke down for the cowboy. To clear his head, he decided to take a break from ranch life.

And so, the passionate amateur singer flew to Nashville “Music City U.S.A.” Tennessee to work on his singing skills with a professional vocal coach Kristin K. Smith (Katie Mac, Jilian Steele, Casey Derhak, Smithfield, and Josh Dorr to name just a few of her students).

Encouraged by her words, Georg began recording his music and never looked back. His debut single “Push That Horn”, a tribute which he wrote in memory of Dean Terry, was released in June 2018 and is still being played in every cutting arena in the U.S.

Since then, Georg has released several country singles further demonstrating his songwriting talent, as well as his vocal prowess. Georg also knows how to captivate his audience live, whether on his first U.S. Tour from Denver to Seattle, on stages on Nashville Broadway scene or the biggest country music events in Europe, such as the Country Music Meeting Berlin or the Western Experience in the Netherlands – the cowboy casts a spell over the audience.

In 2020 Georg’s debut album “Radio Cowboy” was released to much praise which to date has racked up more than a million streams on Spotify alone. The official videos have been viewed over 3.7 million times. So far, five singles have been released to radio, reaching an incredible number of 17 #1 positions on various U.S. Charts. His latest radio release “This Gift Called Life” just spent two weeks at #1 in the U.S. National Radio Hits Country Chart and has made the jump into the Top5 on the AC Chart there as well. Fans and music critics are equally enthusiastic:

• “… A great, very catching album, which is certainly one of the strongest “german” productions of the past 10 years …”

Country.De (Germany’s largest online country music magazine)

• “Honestly, there isn’t a sub-par track on the album, mostly because of the wealthy, enticing voice of Rob Georg, oh so appealing.”

Rawckus.Com (rawckus magazine reviews new releases in all genres of music)

• “… Raises the bar in terms of passion, dedication, and commitment …”

Artistrack.Com (artistrack magazine evaluates new releases in all music genres)

• “Rob Georg’s skills and talent is unquestionable and every song is more beautiful than the last”

Indiepulsemusic.Com (indie pulse music magazine reviews new releases of all music genres)

Georg had an insanely good year 2020 – with his album release, he not only celebrated chart placements, invitations to special live concerts, such as the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville in February, or streaming numbers – he also won his first international music awards at the New Music Awards “Breakthrough Country Artist of the Year” in Hollywood, and the Fair Play Country Music Red Carpet Award in the Netherlands “Amazing Male Voice Country-Pop Original”. So, it will not surprise you that Georg and his co-writers are already busy writing tracks for the second album, of which 4 have already been recorded in his latest recording session at Saxman Studios and Station West Studios in Nashville in December 2021.

In his Corona lockdown project, a Spotify podcast called “Country Music Ain’t Dead,” of which the first episode was released in early December 2020, he supported other country artists from around the world by interviewing them and then introducing them to his 350,000+ social media followers. Management companies and artists were jockeying for interview slots on the bi-weekly artist talk.

But after all, he still is the cowboy that he used to be. He runs a ranch in the Odenwald forest, Germany, with horses, cattle, sheep, and a bunch of border collies, which he breeds and trains to be stockdogs. Asked why he’s still doing the chores himself, Georg answers “The animals are my life, and I can’t think of doing something else. This is where I find my inspiration. This is what keeps me grounded.”

Georg’s songs reflect the life he leads and the stories he lives to tell.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I remember the first struggle started the day when my talent was “discovered” in Nashville! It turned my whole life upside down! I already had a carrier as professional Equestrian Athlete and stable income from breeding, training, and showing Cutting Horses. To start all over, being 43 years old back then, was one of the hardest decisions I ever faced!

Then those worries that my producer Kristin K. Smith and I had with my first radio release “This Ain’t My First Rodeo”! Would radio programmers and listeners accept a German Country Singer? There was no need to worry, they saw it as USP, giving me my nickname “The German Cowboy”!

The next struggle came when Covid hit! No gigs, no income! But as I’m alway striving for new ideas, I turned these times into something positive: I decided to support other artists in my new podcast series “Country Music Ain’t Dead”.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
The storytelling in my songwriting reflect my life as Rancher & Cowboy and Family Man!

The lyrics of my songs are all true stories that I experienced at one point in my life.

Being real is what I hear from my fans all the time. Not all my songs are happy songs. It’s these songs dealing with difficult situations, like e.g., the loss of someone, the loss of my beloved horse, my dad’s fight against Parkinson’s, which people seem to like the most, and finding comfort in the lyrics and the music.

I’m very proud of being able to find a way into people’s hearts with my music! To see them finding comfort in my words and see them sing along with me, knowing every word of each song, is the best feeling in the world.

Maybe one of my latest recordings, which isn‘t yet released, shows best what sets me apart from others! People told me: “Every country artist needs a drinking song!” Well, I do kind of agree, but my drinking song turned into an Alcohol Abuse Awareness Song. You can always look at things from different perspectives, I mostly go for the not common ones.

What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
I will continue to do what I love – to tell my stories in form of songs. These first 3.5 years of my music career have been a very valuable experience and I never dared even dreaming of the stages that I played, the awards that I won, and the amount of people loving my music.

Since we live in very hard and unpredictable times at the moment, my heart would be filled with joy if I can continue producing new music in Nashville, hopefully also being able to play gigs again. The lockdowns and the travel ban for us Europeans reminded me to not take anything for granted. Just being able to get on a plane again a few weeks ago was a such a stunning experience, ‘cause I have a new perspective on things I used to call “normal”.

So, wherever this path will lead me in those next years, it will be meant to be and I’ll embrace it with an open heart and mind.

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: www.rob-georg-music.com
• Instagram: www.Instagram.com/rob.georg
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/robgeorgmusic
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/c/robgeorgmusic
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5TAqfumFfX6byVkerFR4E4

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