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.”

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.