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Luke Combs: ‘I Constantly Think About How Lucky I Am’

Luke Combs knows he’s a lucky man, both with major success he’s had in the past few years, and also more recently with his marriage to his wife Nicole. Backstage…

Luke Combs: 'I Constantly Think About How Lucky I Am'
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Luke Combs knows he's a lucky man, both with major success he's had in the past few years, and also more recently with his marriage to his wife Nicole.

Backstage at the ACM's Zoom press conference last week Luke said of his new life as a married man, “It was really wild getting married this year, come hell or high water. We made the best of it. The time at home has been something that I’m not accustomed to, but something that I’m very grateful for to be able to spend time with my wife and us to enjoy each other’s company."

As for his two ACM wins for Album of the Year (What You See Is What You Get) and Male Artist of the Year, Combs said, “I constantly think about how lucky I am and how grateful I am to be in the situation I am. To get married this year was an amazing bright spot in my life, and to have tonight on top of it and have a really small group of people I love has just been amazing. I’m just grateful to be the guy standing here talking to you all.”

He posted to his Instagram stories last night (9/20), "I'm just as excited for new music to be are, so I was thinking about sharing an acoustic video of me singing each of the 5 new songs every Monday for the next 5 weeks. If you're all down I'll post the first one tomorrow at 7 pm ET."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.