Combs debuts "Love You Anyway"
Combs said, "It was Valentine's Day 2020. I was playing a show and had dedicated 'Beautiful Crazy' to Nicole (my fiance at the time) and said something along the lines of, 'If you're in here (the arena), I love you. If not, you know I do anyway.' Unknown to me, my buddy Dan had written down 'Love You Anyway' as a title in his phone, then he told me the story later that year when he and I were writing with my good friend Ray Fulcher."
"We loved the idea as a title and decided to write about loving someone so much that even if you knew from the beginning they were going to break your heart, you'd love them anyway. It came off very poetic, and we wanted to find the words that could really give meaning to what we were trying to say, but as we say in the song, we didn't know if there were deep enough words made for that. But it all came together and essentially it's a heartbreak and love song all in one. And long story short, me dedicating a song I wrote about Nicole ended up turning into another song about Nicole, and now three years later the song is finally out at the same time of year. It's a special one to me and I hope the fans love it as much as I do."
"Love You Anyway" is the second song unveiled from Combs' new album, Gettin' Old—a companion to his 2022 record, "Growin' Up." The new disc will be released March 24 via River House Artists/Columbia Nashville.
Produced by Combs, Chip Matthews and Jonathan Singleton, "Gettin' Old" is Combs' fourth full-length album.
The track list is:
1. Growin' Up and Gettin' Old
2. Hannah Ford Road
3. Back 40 Back
4. You Found Yours
5. The Beer, The Band and The Barstool
6. Still
7. See Me Now
8. Joe
9. A Song Was Born
10. My Song Will Never Die
11. Where the Wild Things Are
12. Love You Anyway
13. Take You With Me
14. Fast Car
15. Tattoo on a Sunburn
16. 5 Leaf Clover
17. Fox in the Henhouse
18. The Part
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