Luke Combs
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. |
| 0:08.4 | Today, I have for you one of the biggest stars in all of music, country music superstar, |
| 0:14.4 | Luke Combs. |
| 0:16.0 | Luke's first album spent 50, 5-0 weeks at number one on the country charge, which tied |
| 0:22.6 | a record held by Shania Twain. |
| 0:25.3 | He also spun off seven consecutive number one singles. |
| 0:29.0 | He played SNL a few weeks ago. |
| 0:31.6 | If you don't know him, I think you're going to love him. |
| 0:33.8 | His whole deal is he's an every man. |
| 0:36.7 | He grew up in North Carolina. |
| 0:39.3 | He on stage, he's not the guy who has backup dancers or a lot of production. |
| 0:44.3 | He wears a fishing shirt and a trucker hat and literally holds a red solo cup while he |
| 0:49.6 | sings his songs. |
| 0:50.6 | If he's got to play the guitar, he's got a special little red solo cup mic stand that he likes |
| 0:55.0 | to use to hold his drink, which I can report to you. |
| 0:58.2 | You will hear later in our interview is Jack and Diet, baby, because you got to watch |
| 1:03.3 | the pounds when you're slamming Jack Daniels during your shows. |
| 1:07.9 | So we got together a few weeks ago on the eve of his SNL performance, which was a huge |
| 1:13.8 | crossover moment for him. |
| 1:15.4 | He obviously for the last couple of years has been dominating the country music world. |
| 1:19.9 | He played SNL in an entire new audience got to know him. |
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