Luke Combs’ Historic Musical Journey To Be Celebrated In New Country Music Hall of Fame Exhibit

Luke Combs’ life and career will soon be documented in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum through the brand new exhibit, Luke Combs: The Man I Am. 

The recently-announced exhibit will tell Combs’ story from small-town North Carolina, where he grew up singing in school choirs, to headlining massive stadiums around the world. 

The exhibit will showcase an array of items including stage wear, tour memorabilia, manuscripts, set lists, instruments, photographs, posters, and childhood keepsakes. Highlights include a Martin GPCPA4 Sapele acoustic guitar used by Combs in his early performances, a Playbill from his high school role in “Guys and Dolls,” a signed CD-R of his debut EP, the outfit from his “Hurricane” music video, the manuscript of “Six Feet Apart,” a Dale Earnhardt commemorative jacket, his high school football jersey, a dollar bill from his first paid gig, and a portable record player he used to share “Beautiful Crazy” with his wife.

“Few artists have experienced the kind of meteoric rise and sustained success Luke Combs has since signing his first recording contract just two years after moving to Nashville,” Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, shared in a statement. “He has earned a career-defining string of #1 singles, set new benchmarks on the music charts, won more than a dozen major country music industry awards since 2016 and sold out stadiums around the world.”

“Once I decided I wanted to do music as a career, it didn’t matter if it was for 100 people or 1,000 people, I just wanted to be playing Country Music for anyone who would listen,” Luke Combs stated. “If I could have enough fans to call it a job, I was set. Other than that, I never dreamed of being featured in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, much less having my own exhibit; that was beyond my wildest dreams. But honestly, it’s all a credit to my fans, family, songwriters and team. I have only made it to where I am today because of them, and this honor is one of my most humbling yet. At my core I love Country Music and this exhibit is as prestigious of an honor as it gets.”

Opening on July 11, 2024 and running through June 2025, admission to Luke Combs: The Man I Am will be included with admission to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.  

To support the exhibition, Combs will participate in a songwriter round in the museum’s CMA Theater on Thursday, July 11, at 2:30 p.m. He will be joined by four of his songwriting collaborators — Ray Fulcher, James McNair, Drew Parker, and Rob Williford — to share the stories behind and perform some of the songs they have written together. 

Currently, Luke Combs is in the midst of his record-breaking 2024 Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old stadium tour. The already successful 2024 trek will continue with upcoming sold-out, back-to-back shows at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, East Rutherford’s MetLife Stadium, Phoenix’s State Farm Stadium, Salt Lake City’s Rice-Eccles Stadium and Cincinnati’s Paycor Stadium among others.