Luke Combs recently lamded his 18th consecutive #1 song at country radio with his single, “Where The Wild Things Are”. Which is impressive to say the least. The song was written by Randy Montana and Dave Turnbull, and it’s featured on Luke’s most recent album, Gettin’ Old, and became a fan-favorite.
Apparently the song was floating around Nashville for sometime…like a lot of songs do. This song was just waiting on somebody to record it before Luke recorded it and made it his 18th number one song.
During an interview with Country Now, some of Luke’s frequent collaborators talked about the song’s history, and said that it had even been pitched to Eric Church at one point, but he ultimately decided to pass on the song.
They said, “he almost cut it…I couldn’t believe that song couldn’t land somewhere.”
Luke really thought the story in the song would have made for good Church song…but that it also may have been the reason it took so long for it to get picked up.
“At the time, nobody was cutting story songs at all, really. I mean, outside of Eric Church, probably.”