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Luke Combs Honors John Anderson With New Version Of ‘Seminole Wind’: ‘I Hope I Did This One An Ounce of Justice’
Luke Combs paid tribute to country music icon John Anderson with a cover of one of Anderson’s biggest hits. As…
Luke Combs; Photo Courtesy Sony Music Nashville, John Anderson; Photo by Alysse Gafkjen
Luke Combs paid tribute to country music icon John Anderson with a cover of one of Anderson’s biggest hits.
As part of the John Anderson tribute album, dubbed Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson, Combs covered “Seminole Wind,” the fourth single and title track from Anderson’s album of the same name.
“So blow, blow Seminole wind / Blow like you’re never gonna blow again / I’m calling to you like a long-lost friend / But I know who you are / And blow, blow from the Okeechobee / All the way up to Micanopy / Blow across the home of the Seminole / The alligator and the gar,” Combs sings on the track’s chorus.
The North Carolina took to social media on Friday (Aug. 5) upon the track’s release to tell fans to go check out the cover.
“Man, this was such an honor,” Combs wrote. ”Y’all go check it out! @johnanderson is a legend and I hope I did this one an ounce of justice.”
Listen to Combs’ cover of Anderson’s “Seminole Wind” below.
Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson also features Brent Cobb, Brothers Osborne, Tyler Childers, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Sierra Ferrell, Sierra Hull, Jamey Johnson, Ashley McBryde, Del McCoury, John Prine, Nathaniel Rateliff, Sturgill Simpson and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings.
Produced by Dan Auerbach and David Ferguson, the project includes new renditions of some of Anderson’s hits such as “Straight Tequila Night,” “You Can’t Judge A Book (By The Cover),” and “I’m Just An Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Some Day).”
“Listening to everybody do their own takes on the songs shows how the songs really come through. And I thought to myself, ‘You might have been young and foolish back then, but you sure did pick some good songs.’ It’s very gratifying to know that some things really do not change, and a great country song remains a great country song. Any one person on the record would be a real tribute, but all of them together? It’s a pretty big deal for me personally,” Anderson shared of the project.
“We weren’t trying to piddle around and make the normal tribute record. It had to be the best singers with the best songs and the best arrangements, and they had to come into the studio. This wasn’t like, ‘Mail me the song, and we’ll put it together.’ I think it makes this record unique. I don’t think most tribute records are done like this. I think that’s why it sounds like a cohesive album. It feels like an amazing mix tape,” Auerbach added.
Anderson is a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee. He has enjoyed 60 charting singles in four consecutive decades including five No. 1 songs: “Wild and Blue,” “Swingin’,” “Black Sheep,” “Straight Tequila Night” and “Money in the Bank.”
Originally from Apopka, Florida, Anderson now lives outside of Nashville with his wife of over 25 years, with whom he shares two daughters.
Most recently, Anderson released his 22nd studio album, Years, in April of 2020.
John Anderson will be celebrated at the Grand Ole Opry on August 6. Scheduled to perform are John Anderson with special guests Dan Auerbach and Tyler Childers, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Sierra Hull, Elizabeth Cook, and more.
The celebration of the album will also air live that night as Opry Live on Circle Television and will livestream via Circle’s social channels, while the Opry show will air in their entirety on WSM Radio, opry.com/wsmonline.com, and SiriusXM’s Willie’s Roadhouse channel.
SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING NEW: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN ANDERSON TRACK LIST
1. “1959” performed by John Prine
2. “Years” performed by Sierra Ferrell
3. “Wild and Blue” performed by Brent Cobb
4. “Low Dog Blues” performed by Nathaniel Rateliff
5. “Mississippi Moon” performed by Eric Church
6. “I Just Came Home to Count the Memories” performed by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
7. “Shoot Low Sheriff!” performed by Tyler Childers
8. “Seminole Wind” performed by Luke Combs
9. “When It Comes to You” performed by Sturgill Simpson
10. “You Can’t Judge A Book (By The Cover)” performed by Brothers Osborne
11. “Would You Catch A Falling Star” performed by Del McCoury feat. Sierra Hull
12. “Straight Tequila Night” performed by Ashley McBryde
13. “I’m Just An Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Some Day)” performed by Jamey Johnson
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