Luke Combs Talks New Album 'The Way I Am,' Fatherhood, “Fast Car,” and Morgan Wallen

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Music, Tv & Film

4.6 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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We’re thrilled to welcome Luke Combs to the studio for the first time ever to chat about his latest 22-track opus ‘The Way I Am.’ A fantastically humble, funny, and authentic human, we talk to the soon to be father of three about his beginnings, from wanting to be a homicide detective to being a bouncer and playing in bars; getting rejected from the voice to creating a grassroots fanbase and basically becoming the biggest country star there is! Later this year he’s playing three nights at Wembley. That’s 270k people!!

We also talk about the truly transformative moments of his life, becoming a dad, meeting his wife (it’s a great meet cute), the epic ‘Fast Car’ cover, bending the ear of Tracy Chapman and then pulling her out of retirement to perform with him at the Grammys. And of course we talk about this record, what’s up with the lack of country at the Superbowl, his “redneck chic” car collection, his watch collection… and yet somehow he remains utterly grounded. Remarkable.

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0:00.0	Hey, beautiful human real quick.
0:07.1	I got to say a big thank you to our presenting sponsor.
0:10.5	The people who are making this conversation possible, Alexa Plus.
0:13.4	I use Alexa Plus every single day.
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0:36.9	Hi, beautiful human. I'm Zach that's Santa. We welcome to the studio for the first time ever.
0:41.3	Say a little Luke Cole.
0:43.5	Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
0:46.9	Gosh, you look amazing. Thank you. I appreciate that.
0:50.3	You, dude, it's crazy. The album is fantastic. Thanks, man. I appreciate that. I worked hard at it. So I'm, I'm hopeful that people will enjoy it for sure.
1:01.4	The way I am, it is out in this world. One, how does that feel? And two, can you just confirm this album in a certain way was five years in the making?
1:11.0	Yeah. Yeah.. Yeah, yeah.
1:12.2	It's,
1:12.6	yeah, it's finally, uh, it's finally in the hands of folks, which is great. Um, you know, it's, it is five years because I'd put fathers and sons out, I guess, I don't know, a year and a half ago. So it's, you know, fiscally speaking two years ago, you know,
1:28.7	and that was never meant to be like
1:31.1	you know, fiscally speaking two years ago, you know, and that was never meant to be like,
1:31.6	you know, I didn't do any press for it.
1:33.4	I didn't really do any promo stuff for it.
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