{"id":1315888,"date":"2019-10-21T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813451"},"modified":"2019-10-21T08:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:49:52","slug":"this-is-what-happens-when-lee-brice-takes-over-for-luke-combs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/this-is-what-happens-when-lee-brice-takes-over-for-luke-combs\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Happens When Lee Brice Takes Over for Luke Combs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:683526?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 \/>\n55m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s already been firmly established that Luke Combs can write the hell out of a country song. <\/p>\n<p>So why, when he wrote a killer duet with Carly Pearce, did he gives his part away to Lee Brice?<\/p>\n<p>When Brice was in Chicago last week, he explained to me how \u201cI Hope You\u2019re Happy Now\u201d came to be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YJ4y4gGrq3E?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YJ4y4gGrq3E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBack when I met Luke Combs for the first time, he was like, \u2019Man, I\u2019ve been a fan of yours for a long time,&#8217;\u201d Brice told me of the early days of Combs\u2019 ascension into country superstar status. \u201cThat was before he had anything going on. He said, \u2019I wanna write like you. And I wanna sing like you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that was such a big compliment. He has so much charisma, and he\u2019s such an honest dude. And that gets you a long way in country music: being who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So fast forward to the songwriting session, starring Combs, Randy Montana, Jonathan Singleton and Pearce. After the tune was written, and Combs and Pearce recorded the demo, that demo made its way to Brice. Because apparently, Pearce had had Brice in mind all along. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as they sent me the song, I was like, \u2019Yes. For sure.\u2019 Because as soon as I heard it,\u201d he said, \u201cit threw me back to 90s classic country. I love throwing back like that. I was excited, but I did wonder, why me and not Luke? Carly said that when they wrote it, she just pictured my voice on it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said, \u2019You know when you do that Lee thing? That\u2019s what I want.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to CMT Radio, this is the first time Combs has written an outside cut (a song for another artist). \u201cIt\u2019s the first cut that someone else has done. I mean, I\u2019ve had some friends that have cut some songs that I have written and stuff, but as far as a major label, that\u2019s the first thing that I\u2019ve got,\u201d Combs said. \u201cI\u2019m super pumped about it.\u201d<\/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\/1813451\/this-is-what-happens-when-lee-brice-takes-over-for-luke-combs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 55m ago It\u2019s already been firmly established that Luke Combs can write the hell out of a country song. So why, when he wrote a killer duet with Carly Pearce, did he gives his part away to Lee Brice? When Brice was in Chicago last week, he explained to me how \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1315888","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 04:20:17","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}