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Luke Combs Talks About Covering “Fast Car”
Luke Combs has released his version of the Tracey Chapman song “Fast Car” and it’s a song he’s loved for years.
“I’ve had a million favorite songs, you know, from the time I was born until now, you know, at any given time. But that was one of the first like, oh, that’s like my favorite song right now, you know, and my dad had this old pickup truck that had a cassette player in it and I have the actual cassette that me and my dad used to listen to like the exact one of that album. And that song just always, I mean, stuck out to me. And that was probably one of my first experiences, subconsciously, even knowing what like a hit song was. Because I mean, I didn’t know at the time that that was a hit song. Right? Like I was, when I was, when I first heard that I was probably three or that song had been out probably five years already. At that time, I think that came out 88 or 89 or something. But I remember hearing it and being like, man, I like this song, I mean I liked every song on that album. But that song for whatever reason, really just stuck out to me. And I didn’t really know why or anything. So I listened to it my whole life. You know, I always come back to it. And then when I started teaching myself to play, it was the first song that wasn’t just like, this thing that I taught myself to play.”
But learning to play the song on the guitar was not easy for Luke.
“I just took me a really long time because I was really like that song was way more advanced on guitar than I was when I learned it. Right. Like, I feel like I’m just now really, like proficient enough to play that song well enough to do it on stage, like just at this point. But I could play that song 10 years ago, because I just sat there and played it. It took me months to be able to play it and then to be able to play it and sing it took even more time you know? And so I always would just kind of cover that in my bar gigs and people just loved it as much as I loved it. You know? And, you know, you hear a song like Chris Stapleton do Tennessee Whiskey is like, how many people’s only impression of that song is Chris Stapleton? Not to mention that George Jones has cut it and David Allen Coe’s cut it. And you know, all these people have cut this song. It’s been around for generations of country music fans, and has even been a single for other people too. And then when Chris did it, it just, you know, get this whole new life and I think that’s what, I think that’s what, I love that song so much. And I think it’s such a great song that it deserves to be heard by a whole generation of people that haven’t haven’t heard it before. And, and so to be able to, like, have an opportunity to do that, especially with a song that’s meant so much to me and my love of music from as far back as I can remember is super unique.”
Meanwhile, Luke announced second shows at four upcoming stadiums next month.
That includes Tampa, Florida, Foxborough, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Charlotte, North Carolina.
These cities were previously announced as part of Luke’s World Tour but with only one show per venue announced at the time.
Lainey Wilson, the Turnpike Troubadours, the Avett Brothers, Gary Allan, Old Crow Medicine Show, David Lee Murphy and Brent Cobb will be opening select dates.
