LUKE COMBS

                                                            "Cold As You" 

                                                            Columbia Nashville/River House Artists

Luke Combs is sitting at the top of the country music world as its most current mega-star. Riding on a wave of 11 consecutive Number One songs, including his current 6-week chart topper (at the time of this writing) “Forever After All,” Combs is now set to return to radio with his new single “Cold As You.”

Lifted from the deluxe edition of his What You See Is What You Get album, and more specifically from the albums second disc titled What You See Ain’t Always What You Get, “Cold As You” continues to give us that gritty, southern rock fueled modern country sound that we’ve come to know from Combs, while utilizing the raspy grit in his vocals to deliver the punch of the lyrics.

Rather then focusing on the broken heart itself or why it’s broken, as he reveals as the conflict with the line “when guys like me lose girls like you,” Combs instead opts to take us directly inside the familiar place that helps heal it – the local watering hole!

He paints perfect pictures to describe the place throughout the song, which could easily be describing a backroad jukebox type of joint in anywhere USA:

“A blinking window sign with an arrow”

“A gravel lot chocked full of toolbox trucks”

“A bunch of good time numbers on the stall door”

“A honky tonk saw dust dance floor”

“A neon 5 o’clock broke clock”

And a well-placed Willie Nelson song check with the line, “They got “Whiskey River” on the jukebox.”

Besides all the other factors that already makes this a very solid and relatable song, Luke Combs is on an incredible run, so why wouldn’t you bet that “Cold As You” is his next chart-topper - Expect it!

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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