{"id":35258,"date":"2023-06-21T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=35258"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T15:04:32","slug":"luke-combs-on-why-he-covered-the-song-fast-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/06\/luke-combs-on-why-he-covered-the-song-fast-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs On Why He Covered The Song &#8220;Fast Car&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Combs has been a fan of his latest hit, &#8220;Fast Car,&#8221; since he was a kid and heard the song&#8217;s original singer and writer, Tracy Chapman, sing it on a cassette tape that belonged to his dad.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons he wanted to record it for his latest album, Gettin&#8217; Old, was to introduce &#8220;Fast Car&#8221; to a younger generation of fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I love that song so much, and I think it\u2019s such a great song that it deserves to be heard by a whole generation of people that haven\u2019t heard it before, and so to be able to, like, have an opportunity to do that, especially with a song that\u2019s meant so much to me and my love of music from as far back as I can remember is super unique.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luke&#8217;s version of &#8220;Fast Car&#8221; sits inside the Top Five on the Mediabase chart this week.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CsFQSqAxt1D\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Combs has been a fan of his latest hit, &#8220;Fast Car,&#8221; since he was a kid and heard the song&#8217;s original singer and writer, Tracy Chapman, sing it on a cassette tape that belonged to his dad.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4769,101],"class_list":["post-35258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-fast-car","tag-luke-combs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 22:23:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/06\/luke-combs-on-why-he-covered-the-song-fast-car\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35260,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35258\/revisions\/35260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}