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Luke Combs Says Hunting And Songwriting Run ‘Parallel’

Luke Combs says he is happiest when he’s putting pen to paper or carrying around a rifle with his buddies. He told us of his downtime, “I love to hunt….

Luke Combs Says Hunting And Songwriting Run 'Parallel'
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Luke Combs says he is happiest when he's putting pen to paper or carrying around a rifle with his buddies.

He told us of his downtime, "I love to hunt. I really enjoy doing that a lot it just kind of takes my mind off things. You know, I leave my phone at the house. I can hunt on my property, which is really nice. I don't have to go anywhere."

He adds, "It runs really parallel with songwriting because like I'd go and do it with mostly the guys that I write songs with. You know, we sit in the woods or sit in a stand or whatever. It might be one out of every 20 times you go hot and you even have a chance to harvest an animal. I mean, most of the time you're just sitting there hanging out and talking and laughing with people that you enjoy being around. So that for me, is just spending time. Anytime I can get with my parents or my fiancee or or my buddies from back home or my co writers really takes my mind off of things."

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.