June 2, 2023
LUKE COMBS: ASSETS TO SUPPORT “FAST CAR” (AUDIO)
LUKE COMBS: ASSETS TO SUPPORT “FAST CAR” (AUDIO)
“Hey it’s Luke Combs and you’re listening to my song Fast Car.”
“LUKE COMBS: 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. It took me a long time to learn how to play that song. Anyone that has ever-
JONATHAN SINGLETON: It is your guitar. If you pick up a guitar, there’s no doubt you’re playing Fast Car.
ROB WILLIFORD: Back in the neon days when we’d soundcheck, there’d be like three or four songs, he would always grab the guitar and play.
LUKE COMBS: The solo from What I Got by Sublime. Yeah, and then Avett Brothers song called Murder In The City. Yep. Always play that one. And then Tracy Chapman Fast Car for sure. And that’s still that’s the only three songs I know on guitar. But no, 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.“
“Hey it’s Luke Combs. That was my song Fast Car.”
