Megastar Luke Combs has revealed that he made a mistake when he recorded his smash hit version of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car - and it was Tracy herself who corrected him on it!
Speaking to the audience at a recent concert, he revealed why he had started changing one lyric at live performances. "[Tracy] said, 'So, when you recorded the song, you said 'Still gotta make a decision' instead of 'We gotta make a decision.' And that was the first time that I knew that I recorded the song incorrectly. I remember when she said it, I wanted to crawl in a hole," he admitted.
While Tracy was "awesome" about Luke's mistake, he wanted to make sure he got the words right. "I think about it every single time that I sing the song, and I will think about it every time that I sing the song for the rest of my whole life," he said while laughing.
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"It's just not the words. I made that up in my head... so tonight I will probably sing 'We gotta make a decision,' because Tracy Chapman told me to, and damn it, I'm gonna do it," he added.
Country crossover
Zach Bryan is one of country’s fastest rising talents and he’s set to collaborate with an unlikely music icon - Snoop Dogg. Speaking on the TODAY show, Snoop revealed that Zach had sent him a song which he really liked.
“I gotta put a verse on it,” he added. Snoop went on to say that he felt inspired to step out of the hip hop genre and work with Zach after seeing his recent interview with “The Boss, Bruce Springsteen.” We can’t wait to hear the track!
Clean sweep
American country music legend Jamey Johnson’s upcoming album includes a song that delves into some dark, honest subject matter. Midnight Gasoline is Jamey’s first solo studio album in 14 years, and the song Sober details his struggle with addiction. The singer told Billboard that his relationship with alcohol was "leading him down a dark path of self-destruction" until he quit drinking in 2011.
"I barely survived… alcohol was an incendiary way of destroying myself," he said. "Everything just went up in flames and you couldn't put the fire out, you just had to wait for it to all come to ashes and then try to rebuild when you get done. And it seemed to me like I owed myself a better way to live than that." What an inspiration!
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