Last month, Zach Bryan and his onetime collaborator John Moreland — two Americana stars hailing from Tulsa — got into a bit of a beef after Moreland expressed some frustration over the news that Bryan was selling his publishing rights to a new company called the Merrit Group and inking a healthy record deal with Warner for a grand total of $350 million. “$350 M is a lot to pay for the fuckin off-brand version of me,” Moreland wrote on his Instagram story, to which Bryan responded on his own: “[I] refuse to have anyone with a problem with me on my records.” Bryan promised that he’d be “replacing” the song “Memphis; The Blues,” his collaboration with Moreland, and the Great American Bar Scene track was indeed removed from streaming services for a while.
