Welcome to a new year and a new limited series which we are calling ‘What the Year Ahead Holds.’ In this series we’ll be looking at what you can expect from your favourite Country music stars in 2024 in both a personal and professional capacity.
Luke Combs had an amazing 2023 right off the back of a really busy 2022. He achieved about as much as any Country artist could achieve. World tours, hit singles, CMA awards and a Grammy nomination. In ‘Fast Car’ he also managed to find the holy grail of Country artists and have a song that breaks out of the genre and finds its way into the hearts and minds of people who don’t usually listen to Country music. Two albums in two years is good going for anyone and we don’t think any of his fans would begrudge Luke Combs some time away to be with his family, especially with a new baby in the house too.
As far as the Grammys go we’d expect Luke to win his first award this year. ‘Fast Car’ has been nominated in the ‘Best Country Solo Performance’ category. He’s up against Brandy Clark, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Chidlers and Dolly Parton but given the universal love for ‘Fast Car’ and the origins and history behind the song we’re going to stick our necks out and say it wins this award this year.
‘Where The Wild Things Are’ is climbing the charts and will probably hit number one sometime in February or March but it might well be the last single from the ‘Gettin Old’ album and we may well not hear anything from Combs until the third or fourth quarter of the year. Everybody deserves a rest, right? There are tour dates, fairs and festivals on his schedule for a good chunk of the weekends between April and the end of August, but this is standard for Country artists of a certain stature as it’s easy to fly in and out of many places from Nashville but still have Monday to Thursday at home. The tour should be enough to put Combs back in with a really good chance of winning the CMA Entertainer of the Year in 2024 or should at least guarantee him a nomination in that category again.
As far as new music goes? We would expect someone else without the work ethic of Luke Combs to have a well deserved year off but there are already snippets of unreleased and freshly songs beginning to proliferate Combs’ social media channels. First came ‘Noah’s Arkansas’ and most recently ‘Plant a Seed’, a song Combs explains in the post, was sent to him by Wyatt McCubbin that he’d written with Rob Snyder and Jeff Hyde. Combs ends the post with an intriguing ‘A lot more songs to come soon!’ We guess that means he’ll be cutting new music in those off weeks between the April to August weekend shows and that an album might well emerge in the fourth quarter of this year, just in time for the Christmas sales period that isn’t really a Christmas sales period for music anymore!
Get ready for the 2025 world tour folks!!!
