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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Fatherhood Inspired Luke Combs' New Album' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-11. Transcript available.

but it's about father and something i know you have some new children right yep
and i know your
family moved here um i remember hearing you talk before on uh yeah my parents
that your family had
moved to mashville to town yeah how's that been it's been awesome i mean it's
been it's been an
adjustment for them you know i mean we you know i we most of my life lived in
ashville yeah carolina
so it's fun over the orange peel we played over there before i love the orange
peel man it's a
great place that whole town is just and also the hillside you could like just
roll off of a
building and end up in a damn different county almost yeah you could dude and
it's it's but it
was an adjustment period for especially my dad you know what i mean like i mean
all his buddies live
there yeah you know but it's i remember a buddy of mine telling me you know i
think it's just
you know it's the it's the like this whole dad's project is just all these
different thought
processes that happen with you know excuse me the way my dad sees things and
the way that
i see things now and the way i see things maybe what was his perspective when
he was doing this
with me or you know what are my kids going to think about me or how am i going
to be remembered by them
and i remember a friend of mine who wrote on this project with me he was
telling me it was his dad's
70th birthday recently and he called his dad and he was like well you know old
man how's it feel
you know and he said well ain't no way around it pal this is the ninth inning
and i just remember being
like god like what a thought like what a like and it was just like i remember
like ever i've never
forgot that quote and because you know i think that a lot of the the you know
the struggles that
you know my my dad had to come in here or it was a combination of like okay
well he's moving on from
you know they lived in ashville for 25 some years dude in the same house yeah
like raise me there and
all these memories that are left behind and friends that are left behind and
everything that you know
has changed and then also coming to terms with the fact that you that you you
yourself are aging and
kind of like maybe that that fear of what's next or you know how long do you
have like i can't imagine
what that process is like but that quote stuck with me did your relationship
with your dad change after
you had boys you have two boys i have two boys yeah and yeah yeah man it became
you know i had a lot
more um i had a lot more understanding and grace for you know decisions that
that he made or you know
things that maybe i did that i didn't understand well why is he upset about
this thing or why would
this make him upset like right you know and i've had friends in the last couple
years that have lost
their dads and watching them go through that and uh it's just all it's just
this constant theme of
like that's where we are in life like we're at this weird like kind of turnover
point where like
people begin to lose their parents and then you are yeah you like soon you will
be the oldest man in
your family yeah which is a scary thought even though i'm only 34 but like you're
like okay well
if i'm 40 am i like i'm the oldest generation of maybe man that my children
will know
yeah it's a weird thought it's a weird thought you know it's just like it's a
strange oh yeah it's a
strange strange time for sure in a good way but right it's just yeah there's so
many little phases
you go through like uh like you you know you could be a son a brother an uncle
a dad a grandpa you know
there's all like these little roles and stuff that you have and yeah getting
older like almost all my
friends have children except me i was like i gotta get some damn children but
you can't just be
yelling that off your back porch you know yeah so you gotta actually have a
game plan too and
get a spouse that would be a good strategy for sure i think that'd be a good
start for sure you know
it'd be a good start good jumping off point i think you know yes yeah i guess
being like a parent it's
like you get to see like where all your parents like just things that they didn't
do or that they
couldn't do it makes a lot more sense yeah i mean there's so many things where
you go you know you
think when you're a kid right or my mom or my dad did this thing and i would
never do that you know
right i wouldn't ever do that to my kids or whatever and you know sometimes
those things end up being
like yeah man i still would never do that and sometimes you go oh now i get why
we had to do
why they did that thing it makes a lot of sense now like it to me it unlocks
this some at least for me
it did you know it unlocks some part of your brain that's inaccessible in some
ways like once the kid
that's happened dude it's this whole new level of like caring about something
or loving something
that's like you know it's not the same way you love your wife or your husband
or whoever you love
it's a different kind of thing and you were shocked it was that new huh yes
dude it was just
like you know because you hear like a whole new cord or something yeah like all
those cliches dude
yeah about well you wait to how fast it goes and you know yes you're gonna find
out like all that
cheesy yeah when it rains it pours right it's all true dude like all that stuff
makes so much sense
like when and all yeah they're cliches because they people say all the time
because they're true
yeah and it really is it's really been a wild experience the juxtaposition too
is weird like
because i'm on this tour right now and you know people are like and i it's no
fault to anybody but
they a lot of people don't really know what touring is like so they kind of
assume like what it was
yeah you ever see your kids you must be gone all the time and i'm like dude i'm
home more days a week
than i'm gone or the same amount right like i'm home like three and a half days
a week i'm gone
like three and a half days a week so that's more than most people that work 40
hours a day get to
spend it's a good point at home with their kids you know so like i get to but
it's such a weird
juxtaposition to go from you go out let's say fly to you know phoenix or
wherever and you play a two
nights in the same stadium dude and the next day you're home dude and you're
just dad and there's
nobody there i mean we live in a two bedroom two bathroom house that's 2 100
square foot yeah and
the kids are what general admission yeah they're ga they don't yeah hey well
there's no they should
get in free kids eat free dude so they just come in and just take the place
over dude it's a wild
it's a wild thing man right now we're just in this weird balance because of the
kids right now because
they're so small and there's nothing you can do you have to take care of them
every day 100 like
i mean that's wow that's the number one thing dude i mean there is no you know
the kids don't care
about the state they don't know anything and do they rate you guys or anything
like how do you know
there's there is a complaint box or is yeah do you guys like get an email every
week from them like
how do you know how you're doing you don't they're alive if they're still if
they're still alive and
kicking dude at this point you're doing a pretty good job but there's not there's
not there's not
somebody that comes when they're like three years old and gives you like a
performance review yeah
just like somebody should it's well you know what i we were saying this when we
had our first kid we
walked to the hospital and i'm like dude we had this kid two days ago and bro i
gotta take a test to
drive a car dude and they're they'll just give you a human life like all right
no here you go
don't matter who you are yeah what your background is there's no questions
asked really dude yeah
they're just like hey man like you'll be good man like you'll people your
parents figured it out oh
yeah especially if you want a mixed kid they'll just hand you one down there a
lot of these places
i'm like all right this is great it's just it's a wild west dude the kids thing
is like it's a wild
west man it's that it's like there is no i you know i read all the like wow to
be a how to be a
rodeo daddy or whatever how to be uh you know eight seconds with my son right
yeah the wildest
18 years of your eight second life you know it's like but yeah parenting and
fishing you're like
how how parenting is like noodling you know it's like yeah it's just stick and
pray baby you know
what i mean uh it's a wild ride man but the the dad thing was was really fun to
do and that's just
where my head's been recently and and do you start to think like hey we got to
get this third or
fourth or fifth child out of the way now or do you start to strategize it like
i mean the deadlines
we do feel looming right like if you want to have you know i mean because every
time you have a kids
like it starts over like the whole like okay well now it's like when we don't
have kids it's 18 years
from now now again right again we just restarted the clock restart like going
back to jail kids
like a loving jail with other nice like the best jail ever yeah kind of thing
that's like yeah
it's like but it does it's such a jail ever that's one of the songs on the new
album on chainmail
children dude yeah the best jail ever yeah this album for it feels like in a
lot of ways non-traditional
in the sense of like it started out as just kind of this like you know wild
idea of like i had written
a couple of these dad songs that i really liked and i was like man i feel like
you know these three of
these songs are really great i love them um but i was like but i have to like
choose one if i'm
going to do a record because like you can't put a record out and then it's like
oh there's like three
or four dad sounds like we get it right my god and i was like well would it
make sense to like
to do something that's i don't want to say side project that's not the right
term because it is me it is
my stuff but like i hate the word concept album because like it feels like that's
too smart for
something that i'm capable of doing right like someone that makes a concept to
me is like martians
or whatever super it's like genius level musician and i'm not that at all but
it's like uh it's like
a cornbread concept album okay i like what i mean like um but it's just i was
like well if i made a
whole record of just these songs you know and then i got like like a lot of my
buddies we're all the
same age so they're having kids so you know they're you know they've got aging
parents too and so all
these themes are running through all of our lives and so they would start
sending me little clips
because you know they knew i had kids or whatever and so they'd send me a star
to something and i go
god man i really love that i'd love to like get together work on that or
whatever and next thing you
know i end up with you know a whole record full of these songs and i was like
we should just record
these and like just do a project that's just you know so it's like it's my next
record i guess but
it also doesn't feel like my next record if that makes sense like it's not like
if you want to listen
to all my other records it's not logically the next step from like where you
would think that it would
go it's just kind of like where my life has taken me like sonically it's very
like i said we recorded
it live so it's very like it's very traditional country sounding stuff because
it's all just live
instrumentation yeah there's a lot of fiddle there's a lot of sounds really dobro
like it's
it's very natural sounding um and so you know it sounds groovy i mean i'm
willing to listen about
maybe six or seven songs or something but it's definitely got its own vibe to
it always leaving
what's that one oh um yeah all i ever do is leave yeah that's a hammer song
dude god dang god that
song's that's that song's brutal dude all hot moan eyes in my ass dude i've
definitely
i've got some problems but yes there's some good there's some good ones on
there man
Thank you.

How Fatherhood Inspired Luke Combs' New Album

but it's about father and something i know you have some new children right yep
and i know your
family moved here um i remember hearing you talk before on uh yeah my parents
that your family had
moved to mashville to town yeah how's that been it's been awesome i mean it's
been it's been an
adjustment for them you know i mean we you know i we most of my life lived in
ashville yeah carolina
so it's fun over the orange peel we played over there before i love the orange
peel man it's a
great place that whole town is just and also the hillside you could like just
roll off of a
building and end up in a damn different county almost yeah you could dude and
it's it's but it
was an adjustment period for especially my dad you know what i mean like i mean
all his buddies live
there yeah you know but it's i remember a buddy of mine telling me you know i
think it's just
you know it's the it's the like this whole dad's project is just all these
different thought
processes that happen with you know excuse me the way my dad sees things and
the way that
i see things now and the way i see things maybe what was his perspective when
he was doing this
with me or you know what are my kids going to think about me or how am i going
to be remembered by them
and i remember a friend of mine who wrote on this project with me he was
telling me it was his dad's
70th birthday recently and he called his dad and he was like well you know old
man how's it feel
you know and he said well ain't no way around it pal this is the ninth inning
and i just remember being
like god like what a thought like what a like and it was just like i remember
like ever i've never
forgot that quote and because you know i think that a lot of the the you know
the struggles that
you know my my dad had to come in here or it was a combination of like okay
well he's moving on from
you know they lived in ashville for 25 some years dude in the same house yeah
like raise me there and
all these memories that are left behind and friends that are left behind and
everything that you know
has changed and then also coming to terms with the fact that you that you you
yourself are aging and
kind of like maybe that that fear of what's next or you know how long do you
have like i can't imagine
what that process is like but that quote stuck with me did your relationship
with your dad change after
you had boys you have two boys i have two boys yeah and yeah yeah man it became
you know i had a lot
more um i had a lot more understanding and grace for you know decisions that
that he made or you know
things that maybe i did that i didn't understand well why is he upset about
this thing or why would
this make him upset like right you know and i've had friends in the last couple
years that have lost
their dads and watching them go through that and uh it's just all it's just
this constant theme of
like that's where we are in life like we're at this weird like kind of turnover
point where like
people begin to lose their parents and then you are yeah you like soon you will
be the oldest man in
your family yeah which is a scary thought even though i'm only 34 but like you're
like okay well
if i'm 40 am i like i'm the oldest generation of maybe man that my children
will know
yeah it's a weird thought it's a weird thought you know it's just like it's a
strange oh yeah it's a
strange strange time for sure in a good way but right it's just yeah there's so
many little phases
you go through like uh like you you know you could be a son a brother an uncle
a dad a grandpa you know
there's all like these little roles and stuff that you have and yeah getting
older like almost all my
friends have children except me i was like i gotta get some damn children but
you can't just be
yelling that off your back porch you know yeah so you gotta actually have a
game plan too and
get a spouse that would be a good strategy for sure i think that'd be a good
start for sure you know
it'd be a good start good jumping off point i think you know yes yeah i guess
being like a parent it's
like you get to see like where all your parents like just things that they didn't
do or that they
couldn't do it makes a lot more sense yeah i mean there's so many things where
you go you know you
think when you're a kid right or my mom or my dad did this thing and i would
never do that you know
right i wouldn't ever do that to my kids or whatever and you know sometimes
those things end up being
like yeah man i still would never do that and sometimes you go oh now i get why
we had to do
why they did that thing it makes a lot of sense now like it to me it unlocks
this some at least for me
it did you know it unlocks some part of your brain that's inaccessible in some
ways like once the kid
that's happened dude it's this whole new level of like caring about something
or loving something
that's like you know it's not the same way you love your wife or your husband
or whoever you love
it's a different kind of thing and you were shocked it was that new huh yes
dude it was just
like you know because you hear like a whole new cord or something yeah like all
those cliches dude
yeah about well you wait to how fast it goes and you know yes you're gonna find
out like all that
cheesy yeah when it rains it pours right it's all true dude like all that stuff
makes so much sense
like when and all yeah they're cliches because they people say all the time
because they're true
yeah and it really is it's really been a wild experience the juxtaposition too
is weird like
because i'm on this tour right now and you know people are like and i it's no
fault to anybody but
they a lot of people don't really know what touring is like so they kind of
assume like what it was
yeah you ever see your kids you must be gone all the time and i'm like dude i'm
home more days a week
than i'm gone or the same amount right like i'm home like three and a half days
a week i'm gone
like three and a half days a week so that's more than most people that work 40
hours a day get to
spend it's a good point at home with their kids you know so like i get to but
it's such a weird
juxtaposition to go from you go out let's say fly to you know phoenix or
wherever and you play a two
nights in the same stadium dude and the next day you're home dude and you're
just dad and there's
nobody there i mean we live in a two bedroom two bathroom house that's 2 100
square foot yeah and
the kids are what general admission yeah they're ga they don't yeah hey well
there's no they should
get in free kids eat free dude so they just come in and just take the place
over dude it's a wild
it's a wild thing man right now we're just in this weird balance because of the
kids right now because
they're so small and there's nothing you can do you have to take care of them
every day 100 like
i mean that's wow that's the number one thing dude i mean there is no you know
the kids don't care
about the state they don't know anything and do they rate you guys or anything
like how do you know
there's there is a complaint box or is yeah do you guys like get an email every
week from them like
how do you know how you're doing you don't they're alive if they're still if
they're still alive and
kicking dude at this point you're doing a pretty good job but there's not there's
not there's not
somebody that comes when they're like three years old and gives you like a
performance review yeah
just like somebody should it's well you know what i we were saying this when we
had our first kid we
walked to the hospital and i'm like dude we had this kid two days ago and bro i
gotta take a test to
drive a car dude and they're they'll just give you a human life like all right
no here you go
don't matter who you are yeah what your background is there's no questions
asked really dude yeah
they're just like hey man like you'll be good man like you'll people your
parents figured it out oh
yeah especially if you want a mixed kid they'll just hand you one down there a
lot of these places
i'm like all right this is great it's just it's a wild west dude the kids thing
is like it's a wild
west man it's that it's like there is no i you know i read all the like wow to
be a how to be a
rodeo daddy or whatever how to be uh you know eight seconds with my son right
yeah the wildest
18 years of your eight second life you know it's like but yeah parenting and
fishing you're like
how how parenting is like noodling you know it's like yeah it's just stick and
pray baby you know
what i mean uh it's a wild ride man but the the dad thing was was really fun to
do and that's just
where my head's been recently and and do you start to think like hey we got to
get this third or
fourth or fifth child out of the way now or do you start to strategize it like
i mean the deadlines
we do feel looming right like if you want to have you know i mean because every
time you have a kids
like it starts over like the whole like okay well now it's like when we don't
have kids it's 18 years
from now now again right again we just restarted the clock restart like going
back to jail kids
like a loving jail with other nice like the best jail ever yeah kind of thing
that's like yeah
it's like but it does it's such a jail ever that's one of the songs on the new
album on chainmail
children dude yeah the best jail ever yeah this album for it feels like in a
lot of ways non-traditional
in the sense of like it started out as just kind of this like you know wild
idea of like i had written
a couple of these dad songs that i really liked and i was like man i feel like
you know these three of
these songs are really great i love them um but i was like but i have to like
choose one if i'm
going to do a record because like you can't put a record out and then it's like
oh there's like three
or four dad sounds like we get it right my god and i was like well would it
make sense to like
to do something that's i don't want to say side project that's not the right
term because it is me it is
my stuff but like i hate the word concept album because like it feels like that's
too smart for
something that i'm capable of doing right like someone that makes a concept to
me is like martians
or whatever super it's like genius level musician and i'm not that at all but
it's like uh it's like
a cornbread concept album okay i like what i mean like um but it's just i was
like well if i made a
whole record of just these songs you know and then i got like like a lot of my
buddies we're all the
same age so they're having kids so you know they're you know they've got aging
parents too and so all
these themes are running through all of our lives and so they would start
sending me little clips
because you know they knew i had kids or whatever and so they'd send me a star
to something and i go
god man i really love that i'd love to like get together work on that or
whatever and next thing you
know i end up with you know a whole record full of these songs and i was like
we should just record
these and like just do a project that's just you know so it's like it's my next
record i guess but
it also doesn't feel like my next record if that makes sense like it's not like
if you want to listen
to all my other records it's not logically the next step from like where you
would think that it would
go it's just kind of like where my life has taken me like sonically it's very
like i said we recorded
it live so it's very like it's very traditional country sounding stuff because
it's all just live
instrumentation yeah there's a lot of fiddle there's a lot of sounds really dobro
like it's
it's very natural sounding um and so you know it sounds groovy i mean i'm
willing to listen about
maybe six or seven songs or something but it's definitely got its own vibe to
it always leaving
what's that one oh um yeah all i ever do is leave yeah that's a hammer song
dude god dang god that
song's that's that song's brutal dude all hot moan eyes in my ass dude i've
definitely
i've got some problems but yes there's some go