Zach Bryan and Bruce Springsteen sat down for Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians series. The singer said he "never in a million years" thought he'd become a songwriter.

Springsteen said that Bryan has been “connected to the country genre,” but also noted that after attending one of Bryan’s shows, he saw “so much — and I don’t want to call it rock — just energy in your performance. You bust all those different genre boundaries down.”

The Oklahoma songwriter shares his reluctance to be pigeonholed during a conversation with Bruce Springsteen for RS's Musicians on Musicians issue

"No one calls Bruce Springsteen — hate to use your name in front of you — but no one calls Bruce Springsteen a freaking rock musician, which you are one, but you’re also an indie musician, you’re also a country musician," he added. "You’re all these things encapsulated in one man. And that’s what songwriting is."

Zach Bryan has attended a couple of country music's biggest awards shows, but he skipped this one. No reason was provided, but he skipped last year, too, and missed the all-genre PCAs earlier in 2024.

Zach Bryan said he believed he never possessed songwriting talent and would be sitting with Bruce Springsteen on the same stage

A famous country music artist unexpectedly took the stage at a local fall festival in Massachusetts on Saturday.