{"id":35071,"date":"2026-04-16T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=35071"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:44:24","slug":"luke-combs-thought-his-career-was-over-when-he-met-blake-shelton-while-super-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/04\/luke-combs-thought-his-career-was-over-when-he-met-blake-shelton-while-super-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Thought His Career Was Over When He Met Blake Shelton While Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luke Combs&nbsp;had a &#8220;less than ideal&#8221; first interaction over a decade ago with&nbsp;Blake Shelton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke and music executives were on a private farm trip when he got sick.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I remember thinking, like, &#8216;Well, this is it.&nbsp; My career&#8217;s over.&nbsp; I finally got invited to a cool thing, and I&#8217;m the weird guy in the room that&#8217;s sick.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But Luke was able to have his moment during a campfire circle.&nbsp; When it was his turn to sing, he told, Blake&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t even have a record deal.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve never had a #1. But if I get a record deal, this song I&#8217;m going to play is a song I&#8217;ve written.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He played&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Hurricane&#8221;<\/em>, which became his debut single and hit #1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Luke will be opening up a Las Vegas location of his Category 10 bar this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQHamtyDBfn\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Combs&nbsp;had a &#8220;less than ideal&#8221; first interaction over a decade ago with&nbsp;Blake Shelton. Luke and music executives were on a private farm trip when he got sick.\u00a0 &#8220;I remember thinking, like, &#8216;Well, this is it.&nbsp; My career&#8217;s over.&nbsp; I finally got invited to a cool thing, and I&#8217;m the weird guy in the room","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,78,4098],"class_list":["post-35071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-luke-combs","tag-sick"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 15:18:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/04\/luke-combs-thought-his-career-was-over-when-he-met-blake-shelton-while-super-sick\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35072,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35071\/revisions\/35072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}