{"id":8363,"date":"2020-04-15T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:11:08","slug":"luke-combs-discusses-career-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/04\/luke-combs-discusses-career-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Discusses Career Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37IHlU8NpAI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Luke Combs was in college before he picked up and guitar and taught himself to play and write songs.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a handful of years and he&#8217;s already broken chart records, charted seven consecutive Number One hits &#8212; which is every single he&#8217;s released &#8212; and broken attendance records at venues all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>While his career unfolded at a meteoric rate, Luke said he took baby steps to get where he is today, setting logical goals along the way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was always following logical steps. It wasn&#8217;t like pick the guitar up and say, &#8216;I want to break this record and do that.&#8217; It was like, &#8216;Okay, I want to be able to play this song on guitar,&#8217; and then it was like, &#8216;I want to play this song on guitar.&#8217; After a while it turns into, &#8216;I want to play a stadium instead of playing an arena,&#8217; but they&#8217;re all steps that are achievable. It&#8217;s not write your first song and go, &#8216;I want to write a Number One.&#8217; It&#8217;s like, &#8216;I want to write a better song than I did last time,&#8217; and a better song and a better song, and it&#8217;s still that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luke is on his way to his eighth chart-topper with &#8220;Does To Me&#8221; featuring Eric Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While his career unfolded at a meteoric rate, Luke Combs said he took baby steps to get where he is today, setting logical goals along the way.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1063,1583,121,78],"class_list":["post-8363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-career","tag-does-to-me","tag-eric-church","tag-luke-combs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 11:07:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/04\/luke-combs-discusses-career-path\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363","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=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}