{"id":19403,"date":"2019-10-16T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813248"},"modified":"2019-10-16T19:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:01:41","slug":"cmt-aoty-luke-combs-gets-a-chrissy-metz-serenade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/cmt-aoty-luke-combs-gets-a-chrissy-metz-serenade\/","title":{"rendered":"CMT AOTY: Luke Combs Gets a Chrissy Metz Serenade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:683364?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\"><br \/>\n6m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The 2019 CMT Artists of the Year show started off with a big bang when Johnny Galecki from <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> took the stage early on Wednesday night (Oct. 16) at Nashville\u2019s Schermerhorn Symphony Center to help present Luke Combs, one of this year\u2019s honorees, with his award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a few years ago, Luke (Combs) was essentially broke, getting by on odd jobs and playing gigs at college bars. When he stared writing and recording his own songs,\u201d Galecki explained, \u201cone of those turned out to be the massive online hit \u2019Hurricane.\u2019 Since then, Luke has had millions of streams, a debut album that broke every sales record, and now he\u2019s selling out arenas all over the country. This isn\u2019t just a success story. This is an explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he introduced Chrissy Metz, from yet another massively popular TV show <em>This Is Us<\/em>, so she could honor Combs with her version of Combs\u2019 \u201cEven Though I\u2019m Leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:c3924619-7a54-4826-b2f6-457b44dd6744\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Combs was busy doing what he does best, playing out on the road, but he called into the show live to share his gratitude with the crowd in Nashville and the viewers at home. \u201cI really wish I could be there with you guys tonight, but I have a show all the way in Bozeman, Montana that starts in just a few minutes. I want to say thanks to my friend Chrissy Metz: you\u2019re so awesome, you\u2019ve been a great friend, and I\u2019m absolutely honored that you sang one of my songs for me,\u201d Combs said adding his appreciation for the fans, his team, and his band and crew. \u201cThe country music community as a whole has welcomed me with open arms, and it means a whole heck of a lot to me. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one\u2019s going real high on the shelf.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:5f5ae0de-b62e-441d-9cb7-dc525f18f475\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\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\/1813248\/cmt-aoty-luke-combs-gets-a-chrissy-metz-serenade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 6m ago The 2019 CMT Artists of the Year show started off with a big bang when Johnny Galecki from The Big Bang Theory took the stage early on Wednesday night (Oct. 16) at Nashville\u2019s Schermerhorn Symphony Center to help present Luke Combs, one of this year\u2019s honorees, with his award. \u201cJust [&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-19403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 01:38:47","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\/19403","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=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}