Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1956 - Luke Combs
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1956 - Luke Combs' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-16. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1956 - Luke Combs

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Cheers, sir.
Hey, cheers.
Pleasure to meet you.
Yeah, and likewise, man.
Mmm.
I love your shit, dude.
Thanks, man.
Appreciate that.
You got a great voice and great songwriting.
I try my best.
I really do.
It's great shit.
It's solid country.
Yeah, I try, man.
I really do, you know?
You never know.
A lot of, I don't know, I guess you always have doubts.
I mean, that comes with, you know, at least I do, you know, constantly like, is
this good
enough, or is it country enough, or is it, I don't know, it's just always, I'd
be lying
if I said I didn't have.
I think that's what makes you great.
I think you have to have those doubts.
I mean, you have to, I think every artist is always like self-analyzing.
Always.
You have to be.
You have to.
I mean, or else you're just, you know, my biggest fear is like making the same
record
a hundred times, you know?
Yeah, because we all know people who've done that before.
And when you're a fan of someone and they do that, that's one of the things I
love about
Sturgill is like every album, it's like he's a new artist.
It's like, who are you?
Yeah, everything's way different with him, man.
I remember Turtles all the way down coming out, and I was like, man, this is
just such a departure
from the last thing.
Yeah.
And that can be scary as an artist, too, because you're like, well, all my fans
that I have
were the fan of this previous thing, right?
Yeah.
It's the new thing, alienate.
Those people, it's just tough, man.
It's weird.
I think people have to do that, though.
If you, you know, that's what you feel.
Yeah.
I think they go along with you, especially today.
I think people are more willing than ever to let people take chances.
No doubt.
And I mean, I think that comes with the artist now has the power in a lot of
ways, right?
With the rise of the internet.
Yes.
I mean, I think I was really kind of one of the first people who was able to
bring something
to, like when I got my first deal, it was like, well, I already had a built-in
fan base.
And that wasn't really ever happening at that time.
Like, as I was on this social media app called Vine, do you remember that?
Yeah.
And it was like, I mean, I wasn't like, you know, mega big on there or anything,
but I
had enough fans, I guess, where I was selling music, and I didn't realize that
that was weird
until I got to Nashville, and they're like, wait, you're selling how much?
And I'm like, oh, I thought that was, that's low, right?
And they're like, not really.
It's not really that low at all.
And I was like, oh, that's cool, you know?
So then you got some negotiating power, too.
Were you one of the first artists that,
in the country scene that kind of made it off of social media?
Yeah, I would say me and Kane Brown, probably, were like the first two.
And we both got signed at Sony, and I think that's the credit to, you know, I
mean, Randy
Goodman, who still runs Sony Nashville, has always been forward thinking in
that.
Like, at least before, in my opinion, all the other labels in Nashville were
thinking about
that stuff.
He was always thinking about, what's the next thing?
Or like, how do we stay ahead of the trend, or whatever?
And other labels weren't doing that at that time.
And when you first started doing it on Vine, we just doing it because it was
just a thing
that you could put your shit on.
I mean, you obviously didn't think that it would take off the way it did.
It just made sense, right?
It was like, okay, well, this is a tool.
And all I was doing on there was, I mean, the content on that app was six
seconds long.
Right.
It was like TikTok, but six seconds.
Right.
And so it was like, you would have to pick out what's the most impactful
section of a George
Strait song, or of a Waylon Jennings song, or anything I can sing, or of
something that's
on the radio, a Lee Bryce song, or whatever it was, and go, what's the singingest-ass
part
of this song?
And I would get on there and just sing that six seconds on my guitar, and then
put it on
there, and people were sharing and sharing.
And then when I put my own music out, I'm like, well, obviously, I'm going to
market
to these people that are already like my voice and stuff, and it just worked
out.
It was never a master plan.
Right.
You know?
I wasn't like, I would love to say, man, I had this big scheme, and I had it
all planned
out.
It just like, it was these logical steps that just made sense to me.
I think it's kind of better that it's not a master plan.
It just followed your instincts.
Yeah.
It was, I always tell, I mean, there is so much luck involved, no doubt.
I mean, anybody that has success, obviously, you have to be able to sing, and
you have to
have songs that people like, right?
Those things are, you know, that's a given.
But there's a lot of people that I know in town that I would argue are a lot
more talented
than me, singers, songwriters, that went for the artist thing, and it was just,
it wasn't
the right time, or their music didn't connect at that time with whatever the
mainstream kind
of fan base was.
Yeah.
And now they're just, they're just songwriters instead, because now they're,
they might be
40-something, you know?
And they're like, well, I don't want to, I'm not going to get a deal and go on
a radio tour.
I got three kids, you know, make, you know, half a million dollars a year
writing songs or
something.
Right.
Yeah, but that would suck.
Yeah.
That would, listen to somebody else belting out your hits.
Yeah, but there's also a contingency of guys that, like, like, I have some
friends that
went the route, like, they had the deal, they had the songs, it wasn't the
right time, but
then the artist thing just wasn't for them either.
Like, going around and doing PR stuff, like, that gave them anxiety.
Yeah.
Having fans, that gave them anxiety.
And that's like, I think there's people that lean more into, they would rather
just do the
creative stuff and, and hope, okay, I hope I can, you know, write, I hope you
dance for
Leanne Womack instead of being Leanne Womack and singing, I hope you dance.
Yeah, well, that I get.
I mean, some people just, they don't have the personality for it.
They don't enjoy it.
They're more introspective.
They're more, you know, introverted.
Yeah, I get it.
It's a weird world, right?
The world of taking your thoughts and putting them down and then sharing with
people and
then, you know, like, I mean, what is it like for you when you're like at a red
light and
you hear some dude playing your music next year?
Has that ever happened to you?
Yeah.
It's even crazier.
Like, the place that always gets me is like on, like when someone's listening
to it on
a boat.
To me, that's the ultimate test of a song.
It's like, if somebody's listening to you on a boat, dude, they love you.
They absolutely love your shit if they're listening to you on a boat.
That's so true.
You know what I mean?
Right.
I mean, how many artists that you listen to in your car, you probably wouldn't
listen to
on a boat.
It's a different thing, right?
Like, to me, it's like, if it's summer, the weather's nice, the drinks are
flowing, you
know, and dude, your song's on the boat.
That's the soundtrack to like the best time that someone could possibly be
having.
That's so true.
You know?
That's so true.
You're the highlight of their weekend or their summer or whatever.
Like, that song is like a huge part of their life if they're playing it on a
boat.
I never thought of it like that.
But that's true.
Like, boat music.
It's, dude, it's a different, it's a different breed, dude.
You know?
It's the ultimate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's crazy, man.
Yeah, my 14-year-old, she loves Kanye West, and she likes to crank Kanye West
on the boat.
And I'm always like, okay.
You're like, all right.
I just hope.
Cool.
Yeah.
I hope nobody gets mad.
Yeah.
It's like, forget about what he said.
These are bangers.
Is it like new Kanye or is it old Kanye?
She likes all of it.
All of it?
Yeah.
Huh.
I like the, I love the old stuff.
I can't say I'm jamming the, the ye stuff or I can't say I'm jamming.
I just, to me, the choruses, his choruses in the beginning were just.
Incredible.
Incredible, dude.
Yeah.
You know, incredible.
Yeah, I'm very curious to see what he comes up with now after all this
cancellation shit.
It's crazy, man.
I bet he's going to come up with some fucking bangers.
Is he like missing or something?
Well, he's kind of like laying back.
There was some photos of him with some lady the other day that, you know, he's
out and about.
So he's confirmed.
I mean, he's around.
I don't, I don't know what he's up to.
It's, uh.
Because he lives like middle of nowhere or something now, right?
He's got a place in Wyoming.
Okay.
Yeah, he's got a ranch in Wyoming.
Man, that must be nice.
Fuck yeah.
That'd be cool.
Yeah.
That's the move.
I'd love to have one of those.
A ranch in Wyoming.
Everybody who saw Yellowstone was like, God damn it.
I want to live like that.
They were like, Montana's too expensive, so I'm going to Wyoming.
Yeah.
Yeah, Montana's overrun by yuppies.
Yeah.
I love Montana, though.
God, it's fucking beautiful.
Out where Rinello lives.
Yes.
I just went to Banff last week.
Yeah.
For the first time.
Have you ever been there?
No.
Dude, it's like even more Montana, Montana.
Really?
How could it be?
It's hard to explain, man.
I mean, it's just so, so like we had, me and my wife flew into Calgary, because
the closest
you can get is Calgary.
Even flying private, the closest you can get is Calgary.
So it's Atlanta and another country?
No, it's, they're both in Canada.
They're both in Canada.
Oh, okay.
So you go Calgary, and it's an hour and a half drive to Banff.
But it is like the sickest drive.
Like 20 minutes out of Calgary, it turns into like the most Rocky Mountain
thing you've
ever seen.
Really?
And it's just, I mean, it's out of control, man.
I mean, I had never seen anything like it.
We stayed in this hotel that was like built in 1889 up there.
I'm like, it's hard for me to get there now.
Right.
What was it like in 1889 to try to get there?
What's it made out?
Is it made out of logs?
It's stone.
Whoa.
Yeah.
So I'm like, how do you even get the, it had to be, there's a railway that goes
through
there.
But I imagine like, yes, it's called the Fairmont.
Wow.
Yep.
Wow.
Look at that fucking place.
Look at that view.
Holy shit.
It was wild, dude.
What a beautiful place.
Yeah.
That's from 1889.
Yep.
1889.
How did they even get there?
I don't know.
Like we're talking pre-automobile.
Yeah.
Well, so I grew up in Asheville and I always think about the Biltmore house.
Have you ever been to the Biltmore house?
I've been to Asheville.
I've never, I don't know if I've seen the Biltmore house.
Pull up the Biltmore house.
This place is staggering, dude.
I mean, it is like, you can't even, so if you sit on, it kind of sits on this
hill,
right?
So the Vanderbilts built it.
So it was the largest, yeah, largest.
That's in Asheville?
Mm-hmm.
Holy shit.
So if you stand on top of that building, they owned everything you can see from
the top of
that building, which is like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
acres.
Wow.
I mean, it is unbelievable.
It was the largest residence, private residence in the United States for a long,
long, long,
long time.
They have the chess set in there that Napoleon's heart was put on after he died,
which is crazy.
They cut his heart off and put it on a chess set?
But that's the kind of stuff they have in that house, dude.
Is there still a bloodstain?
I don't know.
I can't attest to that.
I can't attest, but I used to go, I mean, I've been in that place four or five
times,
I mean, and it's just staggering.
Do you stay there?
Can you stay there?
No, you can't stay there.
It's tours.
Oh, wow.
But they have a hotel on property, but it's not, you don't stay in there.
They had a swimming pool, bowling alleys.
I mean, it was like decked