Luke Bryan showed Las Vegas his kind of night when the country star kicked off his residency at Resorts World on Friday. It was a spectacle that featured top-end technology, pyrotechnics, a slew of No. 1 songs, and a whole lot of ass-shaking.
In a press conference prior to the concert, Bryan promised a “high energy” show with “big hits.”
“I need to really, really knock it out of the park and compete with the biggest entertainers in the world,” Bryan told reporters. “When you come to Vegas you can be a big, big country star, but you get thrown in the pot with everybody, all forms of music, all genres.”
During the 100-minute production, Bryan proved he can hang on the Strip, channeling his inner Vegas entertainer — more in line with his fellow American Idol judge Katy Perry, who opened her residency last year, than the Seventies schmaltz of Wayne Newton. He shook his…
