Luke Combs as soon as received a fairly particular thanks present from fellow nation star Garth Brooks. On an episode of Armchair Knowledgeable With Dax Shepard, Combs recalled being stunned with a brand new car after acting at an occasion that was honoring Brooks.
“This was final Christmas and my spouse was out someplace. I used to be feeding my son on the dinner desk in our home, and I can see just like the gate,” Combs stated through the interview. “And my supervisor’s pulling up on this Bronco. It’s simply the identical as his, this blue — the Raptor bundle. And he would by no means present up at my home unannounced, so I used to be like, ‘Man, that is form of bizarre that he would present up.’ So he walks in and I’m like, ‘Nicely, I assume he’s giving me a Christmas current…’ So he is available in and he throws me the keys to this factor and I’m like, ‘Are you giving me your automobile, dude?’ Like, ‘What is that this?’
“He’s like, ‘No, man, Garth [Brooks] purchased you this,’” Combs recalled. “I used to be like, ‘What?’” Combs says, on the time, he didn’t know Brooks very properly. “This is sort of a $90,000 automobile, dude!” Combs stated.
In 2022, Brooks was honored by the Nashville Songwriter Awards throughout a ceremony held at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Throughout that occasion, Combs had taken the stage to honor Brooks with a efficiency of Brooks’ 1995 hit “Seashores of Cheyenne.”
“His workforce requested me to come back and be one of many folks that sang a music at this factor. Mine was truly ‘The Seashores of Cheyenne,’ which it was successful, but it surely wasn’t like a superhit. So, he was like, ‘Yeah, that is for you coming and singing that one music.’ … I assume he had referred to as my supervisor the next week, or his supervisor or one thing, [and asked] ‘What does Luke like?’ And he’s like ‘Oh, he likes automobiles…he has a Bronco and he likes Fords and stuff.’ And he’s like, ‘Nicely, I’m gonna order him a Bronco Raptor.’ Nicely, I assume they have been on maintain or one thing, so it took like a 12 months to get it in. So I didn’t speak to him from that night time till that factor confirmed up at my home. Clearly, I referred to as him after which I had it painted.”
“I referred to as him and was like, ‘You didn’t have to do that, dude,’” Combs stated, including, “I drove 20 minutes and was there for lower than an hour, dude. However he was like, ‘Yeah, however you would’ve went out and booked your individual present that night time and made this a lot cash’ … and I used to be simply kinda floored by that.”
Shortly after that occasion in September 2022, Brooks said on Twitter (now X), “I by no means felt like a songwriter till tonight when Luke Combs sang the sh$@t out of Seashores of Cheyenne! Thanks @NSAIofficial for yet one more unforgettable second in my life and profession!! love, g.”
Earlier this 12 months, Brooks appeared at one in every of Luke Combs’s performances, becoming a member of Combs on the Stagecoach Nation Music Pageant to carry out Brooks’s “Associates in Low Locations.”
