Growin' Up and Gettin' Old

Album: Gettin' Old (2023)
Charted: 54
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Songfacts®:

  • "Growin' Up and Gettin' Old" finds Luke Combs reflecting how far he's come. The one-time raucous adolescent acknowledges he's now settled down and come of age. Now he's a father and husband.

    I spend most my happy hours here at home
    In the middle of growin' up and gettin' old


    But he still has a wild steak and occasionally lets loose.

    I can still raise hell all night with the boys when I want to
    Lay that hammer down to see how fast she'll go
  • Combs wrote "Growin' Up and Gettin' Old" with Rob Snyder and Channing Wilson. They first hooked up in 2014 when Snyder and Wilson's friend missed a writing appointment with them. Combs' buddy passed along the young singer-songwriter's phone number to the pair and the trio wrote "She Got the Best of Me" that day.
  • Combs released the song as the lead single from his fourth studio album, Gettin' Old, on January 27, 2023. The longplayer effectively serves as a sequel to his third album, the June 2022-released Growin' Up. The two album titles, taken together, create the name of this tune.
  • Chip Matthews and Jonathan Singleton produced "Growin' Up and Gettin' Old." Matthews and Singleton also co-produced Growin' Up with Combs.
  • Matthews and Singleton sang background vocals and Matthews played percussion. The other musicians are:

    Acoustic guitar: Charlie Worsham
    Electric guitar: Derek Wells, Rob McNelley, Pat Buchanan, and Sol Philcox-Littlefield
    Bass: Steve Mackey
    Drums: Jerry Roe
    Keyboards: Jim "Moose" Brown

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