![]() “In my mind it was either just full-blown awesome tour and full-blown awesome album afterwards or half-assed tour, half-assed album at the same time,” Combs says. It’s like, ‘Oh shit, I’m in the room with a singer. “You sit in a room with him and sing? Oh my god. I’m like, ‘He’s a big country star, fuck it, let’s go chill with him and see what he’s all about,’” says Strings, who was blown away by Combs’ voice. “My manager was like this dude Luke Combs wants to hang. In 2020, Combs put his stamp on the Wilder Blue, a Texas country-bluegrass group then known as Hill Country, saying their record “strikes every chord that I want it to.” That same year he invited bluegrass wizard Billy Strings down to his Key West retreat to write songs. “It’s an honor to have a guy like Luke supporting what 49 is doing.” “When you’re an up-and-coming band, there’s always the hope, in the back of your mind, that the heavy hitters are taking note of the things you are doing,” Isaac Gibson, 49 Winchester’s singer-guitarist, tells Rolling Stone. It’s really important.”Ĭurrently, Combs is obsessed with Virginia country-soul band 49 Winchester, whose t-shirt he wore in a recent Instagram post - essentially vouching for the group to his 4.3 million followers. ![]() Not in the sense of ‘Let’s chase this thing that’s working now,’ but it’s just being aware of what people are listening to and what’s working. That can be a disservice to yourself sometimes. “It’s so easy to detach yourself from everything that’s coming out and just focus on your thing. “You have to be seeking out new stuff,” Combs says. And then when I picked the guitar up, I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is how I can make a living doing this and feel like I’m really good at it as well.’” “ I would love to tell you I knew when I was five years old that I wanted to be a country singer, I just loved music. He’s wearing a camouflage Hunt Brothers t-shirt, the same one he’ll wear during his performance later that day. And I never in a million years would have thought that I would be doing that for a living,” Combs says, sitting on a sofa in his manager’s office before the BMI party. “I had been singing forever and I always loved that. This willingness to cede the spotlight says something about the 31-year-old North Carolina native, one of country music’s biggest stars: Luke Combs genuinely loves what he does. “Let’s not sleep on Ray’s album coming out on Friday,” he tells the crowd when Fulcher joins him for one of several songs. There are even couches onstage, from which Combs and his co-writers are singing and telling stories behind the hits.Ĭombs insists he was just “lucky to be in the room” and frequently directs attention back to his collaborators, including solo artist Ray Fulcher, who was gearing up to release his debut LP. Except, instead of Combs’ full-band, full-production concerts, this one is staged like an intimate writers’ room hang. Temporary fencing surrounds the complex and its parking lot, where Combs is set to perform for a humble crowd of about 8,000 - considerably less than the arenas and stadiums he’s headlining at this point. Outside in the June heat, the BMI building has taken on a fortress-like appearance. Combs is in good spirits and makes the rounds in the room - never holding court, just sticking to smaller group conversations. Hell, yeah,” Combs says twice, raising a glass of some potent brown liquid as BMI exec Clay Bradley rattles off statistic after statistic about these hit songs. ![]() ![]() He’s set to perform at Nissan Stadium over the weekend, but today he’s making up for the last two years or so of pandemic delays and cancellations with a giant celebration for a run of nine Number One songs that he co-wrote - from 2018’s “Beautiful Crazy” to the most recent, “Doin’ This.” Combs and a small army of collaborators have gathered at the Nashville headquarters of performing-rights organization BMI to mark the occasion with a concert in the parking lot. ![]() A few days before the official start of CMA Fest in Nashville, Luke Combs is already running at full speed. ![]()
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