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Last week, Luke Combs graced our Instagram and TikTok feeds with a surprise song snippet, titled ‘My Kinda Saturday Night’. In itself, Combs sharing new music wasn't out-of-the-ordinary, with the North Carolina titan debuting a slew of unreleased offerings throughout his Australia and New Zealand tour at the start of the year.
The track itself, though, was anything but run-of-the-mill, and while we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, many fans are already tipping this as a Song of the Summer contender.
The reason listeners are getting particularly excited about ‘My Kinda Saturday Night’ - despite not getting especially buzzed for the likes of ‘Wish Upon a Whiskey’ and ‘Ain't No Cowboy’ - is that this sounds like classic, This One's For You-era Luke Combs.
In recent years, Luke Combs has been transitioning from the rowdy, beer-drenched, post-bro-country persona of his first two projects to the settled-down family man that drives much of Gettin’ Old and his 2024 concept project, Fathers & Sons. The latter finds Combs pulling together 12 deeply vulnerable tracks that exclusively examine the joys, challenges and intricacies of the father-son relationship.
Fathers & Sons is a tricky one to fairly assess, because it was never meant to be a commercial hit. Combs has openly admitted it was his least successful album, with the ‘Beautiful Crazy’ hitmaker underlining that he made it for him, and nobody else.
While we appreciate the artistry and the boldness of Fathers & Sons, we've also been missing the anthemic, cold-ones-in-the-air earworms that Combs first stormed onto the scene with, such as ‘Beer Never Broke My Heart’ and ‘1,2 Many’.
And that is why we can't wait for the full version of ‘My Kinda Saturday Night’ to drop. It's Luke Combs at his playful, swaggering and galvanising best, with the ‘Forever After All’ crooner setting the scene as the anticipation builds for a raucous, live-wire night ahead (“Dang, I ain’t ever putting WD-40 on this front porch chain / I can’t but I can almost hear that paycheck dropping in the bank”).
The wonderfully twangy electric guitar that starts off ‘My Kinda Saturday Night’ feels as though it's been taken straight from Alan Jackson's iconic smash, ‘Chattahoochee’, with Combs’ charismatic drawl gliding addictively across the energising instrumental.
The new track feels cut from the same cloth as ‘Beer Can’, ‘My Kinda Folk’, ‘Don't Tempt Me’, ‘Angels Workin’ Overtime’ and other feel-good, honky-tonkin’ Luke Combs staples.
In a heartfelt message shared across social media in late March, Combs offered fans an update on the status of his forthcoming album, “I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks working on what my next record looks like and as it begins to take shape I can honestly say I’ve never felt better about one at this stage. It’s early on but I really do think it could wind up being the best record I’ve ever made”.
And it looks like there's plenty more where ‘My Kinda Saturday Night’ came from, with Combs revealing in an interview with People that his Fathers & Sons follow-up record will see him returning to the old-school sound of his earlier material, “I want to go back and just do the stuff that people probably have been missing for a little bit. I want to get back to some fun stuff. It’s not going to be nothing weird. We’re not doing no jazz album. We’re just doing a kick-a** country record”.
There's no official release date in sight just yet, but with the ‘Hurricane’ chart-topper recently confirming he's hard at working on his next studio album, and with ‘My Kinda Saturday Night’ spreading rapidly across TikTok, we're hoping it's not too long before Luke Combs decides to gift us the full version of unreleased hit-in-waiting.
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