Luke Combs steps away from his signature boot-stomping anthems to deliver something genuinely moving with “Giving Her Away,” released 5 December 2025.
This piano-driven ballad finds the North Carolina country star trading tackle boxes and creek bends for suits and altars, capturing a wedding day through dual lenses: the nervous groom and the tearful father saying goodbye.
Written by Gary Garris, Josh Mirenda, and Josh Phillips, the track carries particular weight for Combs.
Phillips, an old mate who once crashed on his couch in Boone, penned this tender meditation on matrimony’s bittersweet exchange. “Josh has just been on an absolute streak recently,” Combs shared, calling the opportunity to record his friend’s work “a full circle moment.”
Producers Chip Matthews and Jonathan Singleton keep the arrangement stripped bare, letting Combs’ gravelly drawl coast across sparse, atmospheric piano keys.
Steel guitar weeps through the chorus, its pining cry matching the emotional weight carried in lines like “Man, you brought your baby / I brought a ring / I’m givin’ her my name / And you’re givin’ her away.”
The production mirrors country music’s greatest strength: knowing when to step back and let the story breathe.
The narrative unfolds with honky-tonk wisdom, contrasting weekend fishing trips and freshly shined Fords against the formality of a springtime Saturday ceremony.
Combs captures that peculiar masculine tenderness, two men who’d rather be anywhere but here, yet nowhere else matters.
“Oh, yeah, she’s your little girl / And oh, she’s my whole world” distils the song’s core tension into one couplet, acknowledging the father’s past claim whilst staking the groom’s future one.
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This marks Combs’ first release since The Prequel EP and follows his twentieth consecutive number-one hit, “Back in the Saddle.”
Expected to feature on 2026’s LC6*, “Giving Her Away” showcases the same emotional depth that transformed his “Fast Car” cover into cultural conversation.
The song arrives ahead of Combs’ My Kinda Saturday Night Tour, hitting stadiums across the US, UK, and Europe.
Where lesser writers might’ve drowned this premise in saccharine sentiment, Garris, Mirenda, and Phillips craft something honest.
The bridge’s imagery, “I’m sayin’, ‘I love you’ / And you’re saying, ‘Goodbye’ / You’re lettin’ her hand go / Puttin’ it in mine,” achieves that rare country music alchemy: simple words carrying monumental weight.
Combs, now the most RIAA-certified country artist of all time (surpassing Garth Brooks), proves he hasn’t lost touch with the genre’s storytelling tradition.
“Giving Her Away” won’t pack dancehalls or dominate line-dancing playlists, but it’ll soundtrack countless father-daughter dances and groom’s first looks, which might matter more.