![]() ![]() He delivers in the live show, he delivers hit after hit after hit for streaming and radio, and he’s a quality guy that people can root for.”Įven Combs is still shocked and humbled by his ascent. Adds Ed Warm, a top Chicago-based country-music promoter who booked the singer early in his career, “I’m not surprised at all by Luke’s rise. “I think we all need to just step back and go, Wow, this is like a once-in-a-generation thing that’s happening,” says Combs’s longtime tour manager, Ethan Strunk. (“Please don’t give me the credit for that one,” Tannenbaum insists with a laugh.) And in the five years since his agent, WME’s Aaron Tannenbaum, began booking Combs’s shows, the singer has sold out every one of them. In fact, he has yet to release a single that hasn’t topped the Billboard Country Airplay charts. 1 singles to date, including his latest, “Doin’ This,” off his just-released third album, Growin’ Up. Or as one of his main collaborators, best friends, and hunting buddies, Dan Isbell, succinctly tells me, “Everybody around Luke will take a bullet for him.”Ĭombs is unquestionably one of the biggest acts in the country genre today, with a record-breaking 14 No. Talk to enough people around Combs - those who work with the 32-year-old singer or, really, anyone who has interacted with him in some capacity - and a clear picture emerges: namely, that of an uncharacteristically humble, down-to-earth, hardworking, fiercely loyal teddy bear of a country star. “I think there’s something really organic in the law of attraction that works in his favor.” “And that’s when we really became best friends, like the movie Step Brothers,” says Williford, who has been a guitarist in Combs’s band and one of his closest musical confidants ever since. Two weeks later, after bonding with the then-unknown Combs over a mutual affection for the singer-songwriter Eric Church, Williford reluctantly agreed to work with him - and quickly discovered a young man not only blessed with a stronger voice than he initially gave him credit for but a unique way with words. Wanting to do his former teacher a solid, though, he decided to take the meeting. And I’m sure he thought I was an asshole.” “Basically, I felt like, Man, you’re an incredible singer, but you’re like a karaoke singer. I’m a bona fide songwriter,” Williford recalls. “I’m thinking, I can’t be bothered with this. Yet when Rob Williford, a singer-songwriter in Nashville, received a call from his high-school science teacher, Lenora Crabtree, to potentially collaborate with a wannabe country- music singer her son was roommates with at Appalachian State University, he balked. This doesn’t happen often because, well, by and large everyone who meets Luke Combs immediately loves Luke Combs. In 2014, Luke Combs had a rare but pivotal encounter: He met someone who didn’t like him. “It was like, ‘This guy? Take one look at him. The CMA, CMT, ACM & Billboard Music Awards nominated road warrior recently wrapped his 55-city sold-out first headlining Don’t Tempt Me with a Good Time Tour, performed on all-star lineups for CMA Music Fest, Stagecoach & Austin City Limits and joins Jason Aldean on his summer 2018 nationwide High Noon Neon Tour.“I always felt overlooked or written off before anyone had even given me a shot,” Combs says. Named Billboard’s Top 100 Artist and Top New Country Artist of 2017, Combs made country radio history as the first new solo male artist to achieve a multi-week No. 4 on Billboard 200 Chart and immediately charted in the Top 10 on iTunes All-Genre Songs Chart. The iHeart Radio Awards “Best New Country Artist” released This One’s for You Too, a 17 track expanded collection of his critically acclaimed debut album, on June 1 - with 5 brand new tracks that landed at No. 1 hit radio singles - “Hurricane," “When It Rains It Pours” and “One Number Away” from his GOLD-certified debut album, This One’s for You. ![]() Multi-Platinum singer/songwriter Luke Combs stormed onto the country music landscape as “one of the format’s burliest and brightest stars” (Vulture) with three consecutive No. ![]()
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