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FCM What’s your favorite musical collaboration to date? LC Has to be Eric Church for my song “Does to Me,” that he featured on. Eric was always someone I looked up to, so to be able to do that was a big moment for me. The song ended up going No. 1 on the country charts, which made it even cooler.
Luke Combs
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MEET LUKE COMBS
lorida Country Magazine interviewed singer-songwriter Luke Combs, called “the most promising and influential new country star of the last five years” by The New York Times. On Oct. 23, the multi-platinum, ACM, CMA, CMT and Billboard Music Award-winning artist from Asheville, North Carolina, released his anticipated deluxe album What You See Ain’t Always What You Get. It features all 18 songs from last year’s platinum-certified, global No. 1 record What You See Is What You Get, and also five new tracks, according to lukecombs.com. His triple-platinum debut album, This One’s for You, was the moststreamed country album of 2019. But his “best day” was Aug. 1— when he married longtime fiancée Nicole Hocking, who grew up in Fort Myers. Read on for Combs’ take on these past whirlwind years:
