{"id":18321,"date":"2019-09-09T16:53:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1811691"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:53:55","slug":"the-lessons-luke-combs-keeps-teaching-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/the-lessons-luke-combs-keeps-teaching-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lessons Luke Combs Keeps Teaching Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:675728?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">25m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only been three short years since we\u2019ve all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1801668\/luke-combs-the-year-end-qa\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">gotten to know<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/luke-combs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a> and his music.<\/p>\n<p>But in the years since he released his debut single \u201cHurricane,\u201d I feel like he\u2019s taught us all how to be ourselves, not to wait around for perfection, and just do what comes naturally.<\/p>\n<p>For him, that seems to happen every day, and today was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted a video on Monday (Sept. 9) that was shot the very first time he was singing his new song \u201cEven Though I\u2019m Leaving\u201d live. It\u2019s not glamorous. It\u2019s not choreographed. It\u2019s not over-produced, over-analyzed or over-anythinged. It sounds clich\u00e9, but it is in every sense of the word, as authentic as Combs is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7kqqmr2HWI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7kqqmr2HWI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The very best part of the video, aside from Combs, is the crowd. Because they are so clearly moved by the ballad, and they are clinging so tight to every word Combs is singing, that you don\u2019t see one cell phone trying to capture it. His fans are literally living in the moment for almost four minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Combs wrote the song with Wyatt Durrette and Ray Fulcher, and even though he isn\u2019t a father himself, the lyrics do paint a picture of the more sentimental family-man side of Combs.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1801668\/luke-combs-the-year-end-qa\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">conversation<\/a> I had with Combs at the end of his first big break-out year, he shared a story with me about his own dad and mom. \u201cAbout a year after I\u2019d moved to Nashville, I\u2019d saved up money in a coffee can and bought a new Ford Fusion. I literally had all the cash in this coffee can. I hadn\u2019t made any money off my music yet, but when we\u2019d play live shows, whatever money I had left over after I paid everyone else went into this coffee can. Every month, I\u2019d count it. At the time, I was driving a 2000 Dodge Neon with manual windows and manual locks. So any car with air conditioning was real nice for me. Then a year later I bought a truck, so I gave that Fusion to my parents,\u201d Combs told me. \u201cYou can never prepare yourself for (fame). Never. You can have 100 people tell you about it, but you never truly understand. What it\u2019s allowed me to do, though, is buy a house, and help my parents out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Combs parents were by his side, too, when he decided at a young age that he wasn\u2019t into country music like they were. \u201cWhen you\u2019re between 8-11 years old, I think, you just listen to what your parents listen to. It\u2019s not up to you. But then when I was about 13, I was like, \u2019I\u2019m a grown up now, so I want to listen to what I want to listen to.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And at that age, what he wanted was Pearl Jam tickets. \u201cI was so young that I had to go to the concert with my mom,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n<p>The next stop on Combs\u2019 Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour is on Sept. 26 in Rogers, Arkansas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1811691\/the-lessons-luke-combs-keeps-teaching-us-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 25m ago It\u2019s only been three short years since we\u2019ve all gotten to know Luke Combs and his music. But in the years since he released his debut single \u201cHurricane,\u201d I feel like he\u2019s taught us all how to be ourselves, not to wait around for perfection, and just do what comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 11:49:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}