{"id":103300,"date":"2025-03-24T05:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=103300"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:40:35","slug":"luke-combs-failed-first-attempt-to-go-to-the-grand-ole-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/luke-combs-failed-first-attempt-to-go-to-the-grand-ole-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Failed First Attempt To Go To The Grand Ole Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the celebration surrounding the 100th anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry, Luke Combs reflected on his history with the iconic institution.<\/p>\n<p>The country superstar recalled his first unsuccessful attempt to attend an Opry show during a college spring break trip to see Ashley Monroe perform.<\/p>\n<p>His college roommate\u2019s car issues derailed their plans and they ended up missing the performance, but Combs connected with Monroe on Twitter to share that he sadly missed her set.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cShe responded and told me she was doing a signing after the show. So I went over and got my album signed. I still have it to this day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Combs also shared a bold statement he made to Monroe that night.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI told her, \u2018One day, I\u2019m going to play the Opry, and I\u2019m going to play with you.\u2019 \u201cYears later, I actually got to tell her that story for the first time in Maui at the BMI Songwriters Festival, where we were playing together. It was a full-circle moment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHWiviWRf00\/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":"As part of the celebration surrounding the 100th anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry, Luke Combs reflected on his history with the iconic institution.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":91295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[6181,489,491,710],"class_list":["post-103300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-ashley-monroe","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-luke-combs","tag-opry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 03:34:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/03\/luke-combs-failed-first-attempt-to-go-to-the-grand-ole-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}