Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

I just sat on the porch when I wasn't at work , playing , playing , playing because I knew I loved to sing and I was like , well , I'll just learn how to play and then I can sing at like , parties for my buddies or whatever and taught myself all year . And then just kind of became obsessed with like learning how to play . And by the time I was 22 I'm back in school , I'm in Boone hanging out with my buddies .

Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

So I taught myself all summer . I just sat on the porch when I wasn't at work , playing , playing , playing because I knew I loved to sing and I was like , well , I'll just learn how to play and then I can sing at like , parties for my buddies or whatever and taught myself all year . And then just kind of became obsessed with like learning how to play .

Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

And by the time I was 22 I'm back in school , I'm in Boone hanging out with my buddies . I'm starting to dabble around with , like , writing my own songs because I was like , well , I could , you know , this would be cool . I like this .

Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

And I always loved it . So it's like a door opened up , you walk through it and your life changed forever . It just made sense , dude .

Luke Combs on Learning to Play Guitar at 21 and the Moment that Led Him to Music

The Joe Rogan experience in my brain . I'm thinking , ok , well , I only thought the only option was to be a music teacher in my head . I'm going , well , that's the only option is to be a music teacher .