Luke Combs is the best, and his manager confirmed that with a really cool story.<\/p>\n
When everything shut down during COVID and there weren’t live concerts for a while, a lot of musicians were on edge.<\/p>\n
But Luke quickly put his crew at ease, when he sent them all a simple message.<\/p>\n
“Your families will never have to worry about putting food on the table.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And then he gave all 44 crew members a full salary throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n
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In other Luke news, he’s working on new music, and he said…<\/p>\n
“[It] could be the best record I’ve ever made.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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