Luke Combs is right up there with Kane Brown when it comes the viral nature of his success among a new generation of country listeners-ones who grew up on Florida Georgia Line, and consider Kenny Chesney classic country.Ĭombs has been so successful, his debut major label album This One’s For You is getting the deluxe reissue treatment, which is the common play when a new artist is outgrowing even the label’s expectations, and they need to feed the beast of hungry fandom without going through the 18 month slog of recording and releasing a new album just yet. You can’t argue with the results if you’re a Music Row number cruncher though. He still was a lot more real than most, but the production was mild and safe, the songwriting had most of the edges shaved off, and about all that seemed left of the original Luke Combs was the belly and beard. His early recordings showed a lot of potential as a country performer who wasn’t afraid to let his roots show-someone who could fall in with William Michael Morgan, Mo Pitney, and Jon Pardi as a promising new star in the mainstream that traditional and independent country fans could get behind.īut of course by the time he transitioned to a major label, the results were much more mixed. He was ugly like you and I, didn’t fit the mold, and wrote his own songs. When Luke Combs first emerged in the country music national consciousness, he carried with him a lot of promise as major label star that could bring songwriting substance and a little bit of guts to the mainstream.

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