Luke Combs Reacts To Tracy Chapman’s ‘Shout-out’
Luke Combs talked with Billboard recently and reacted to Tracy Chapman’s comments about his number-one song cover of her 1988 smash, “Fast Car.” Earlier this month (7/6), Chapman told Billboard in part of the song topping the country charts, “I’m honored to be there. I’m happy for Luke and his success.”
Luke told the publication that he was surprised with the song’s country chart success and that Chapman wrote what he called “this perfect song.” Combs went on to say how excited he was that his stadium size crowds related to the song and sang along each night. He said in part, “It’s so cool that Tracy is getting recognized and has reached new milestones. I love that she is out there feeling all the love and that she gave me a shout-out!”
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Luke told us earlier this year when we talked to him about his album, Gettin’ Old, “That song’s just been a really huge part of my life for a really long time. It’s one of the first songs I remember hearing. It’s probably my first favorite song that I ever had.”
He added, “I spent tons of time listening to it with my dad in his pickup truck when I was a kid, probably when I was four or five at the time.”
Combs explained, “It just caught my attention, the whole record really, but that song in particular. Ever since I could play guitar, it was probably the first song I learned. It’s just been a huge thing. It’s just always been around in my life musically. I never forgot it; it never came out of rotation. It’s such a beautiful song, and I think it’s such a well-known song.”
Luke told us what made him finally record and add the song to an album. He offered, “I had been doing covers of it in my college years for a long, long time, and I did a video of it over COVID in my garage playing it, and fans were like, ‘You outta do a cover of this’ and I always wanted to. It finally felt like the right time, so I am thankful to have been able to do that.”
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