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Luke Combs shared a few rare snapshots with his two young sons on Instagram on Thursday evening (August 29).
“I just hope ya know that I’m proud of ya. I wanna make sure that you know I love ya,” Combs wrote in the heartfelt caption on the photos, including a few at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee, where the country star and his family attended the unveiling of his new exhibit. Combs’ Instagram caption referenced the lyrics to “In Case I Ain’t Around.” The song is one of 12 tracks that appears on Fathers & Sons. Combs released the emotional album just before Father’s Day in June.
“I’ve got two boys under two, so my life is dominated by the thoughts of being there for them. I want to be their dad first and foremost,” Combs wrote in a statement when Fathers & Sons made its debut. He said he felt the need to create the record “because being a dad to my boys has been the main thing on my mind lately. I don’t want to say this is a side project because it is me and my stuff, but what started as a crazy idea with only a few dad songs turned into me saying we should just record all of them as my next album. I know it’s probably not what everyone expected my next album to be and I get that; I feel the same way in this not truly feeling like my next album. But being a dad is where life has taken me, and this album is a reflection of that in song form.”
Combs and his wife, Nicole Combs, welcomed their firstborn child, son Tex Lawrence Combs, on Father’s Day in 2022. Baby No. 2, son Beau Lee Combs, followed in August 2023.