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Luke Combs On Eric Church: ‘He Really Cares About His Fans’

Luke Combs has a new collaboration with Eric Church called “Does To Me” on his upcoming album What You See Is What You Get, which will be out on Friday…

Luke Combs On Eric Church: 'He Really Cares About His Fans'
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Luke Combs has a new collaboration with Eric Church called "Does To Me" on his upcoming album What You See Is What You Get, which will be out on Friday (11/8).

Luke told us, "Eric has been and still is a huge inspiration to me and somebody that I look up to as a songwriter. The way he he cares about his fans and and the thought he puts into the show every night. It had such a big impact on me and so many of my friends as well. It just feels like he really cares about what's going on musically and in the eyes of his fans. And that's something I've always tried to emulate."

He continued, "So for him to have liked this song enough to to jump on it, that was something I was very concerned with. I said, 'I don't want you to do this if it's not something that you're passionate about. If you don't love the song, don't feel like you have to do it. Because I'm asking you. I only want you to do it if you genuinely want to do it.' And so for him to say yes to that was really great for me. And to get to be in the studio with him when he sang on, it was it was definitely a really great experience."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.