The Austin 100: Nick Wayne

By Stephen Thompson

Published March 1, 2018 at 6:00 AM EST

Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee

Genre: Country / Pop

Why We're Excited: Remember the summer of 2017, when it seemed like the only songs on pop radio were Bruno Mars' "That's What I Like" and Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You"? Nick Wayne's "I've Got You Now" sounds like one of those songs — not exactly like them, mind you, but like the kind of song that keeps accumulating popularity until it seems to be imprinted on the wind. Call it soul, or pop, or country, or folk — it's a little of all four, really — but its true genre sounds like "hit."

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Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)

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