By Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times

It never takes long when you’re listening to country radio to hear a song by Jordan Davis.

Since 2017, this singer and songwriter from Shreveport, Louisiana, has put 10 singles on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart — five of which have gone to No. 1 and none of which has peaked lower than No. 7. Among his hits: “Buy Dirt,” which was named song of the year by the Country Music Association in 2022; “Next Thing You Know,” which earned the same award from the Academy of Country Music in 2024; and his latest, “Bar None,” a clever drinking song in which he recounts “getting goner than your long-gone boots.”

You can attribute Davis’ success in part to the fact that his music makes sense next to virtually anything on the radio — it’s wordy yet hooky, frisky but

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