CMHOFM Celebrates ‘Luke Combs: The Man I Am’ Exhibit Opening

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Pictured (L–R): CMHOFM’s Jody Williams, Make Wake’s Chris Kappy, Sophia Sansone, Luke Combs, Sony Music Nashville’s Randy Goodman and CMHOFM’s Kyle Young. Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated the opening of its latest exhibit, “Luke Combs: The Man I Am,” last night (July 10).

“Luke Combs: The Man I Am” exhibit. Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Open now until June 2025, the exhibit explores the country star’s life and career thus far with stage wear, tour memorabilia, manuscripts, setlists, instruments, photographs, posters, childhood memorabilia and more on display, paired with an official playlist. For more information, click here.

Combs visited Nashville in January 2014 to record his first EP, The Way She Rides, and officially made the move to Music City that September at age 24. Within a year, he signed with a booking agent, and filled small rooms throughout the Southeast with fans who had discovered him online. Combs then signed a record deal with River House Artists and Sony Music Nashville in October 2016, after independently releasing three EPs and generating buzz with songs such as “Hurricane,” which became his first country radio No. 1 in May 2017.

“Hurricane” was featured on his debut album, This One’s for You, which spent 50 weeks atop the country albums chart, tying Shania Twain’s record for most weeks at No. 1. The Columbia PFG shirt and Swamp Assassin baseball cap that Combs wore in the tune’s music video are featured in the new exhibit. In 2019, he became the first artist to top the Billboard Country Airplay chart with his first five singles. Combs later extended the record to 13 consecutive chart-toppers, and amassed 16 solo Billboard Country Airplay No. 1s in April 2024.

Following his sold-out 2023 word tour, Combs will continue to take the stage of multiple stadiums this summer on his “Growin’ Up And Gettin’ Old Tour,” performing tracks from his new studio project, Father & Sons, among others.

Luke Combs & wife Nicole Combs. Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

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