Recently, Luke Combs chopped it up with Garth Brooks about his life before becoming a country superstar and said he was a bouncer back in the day.

Combs said, “I was (a bouncer). Not a very good one, but I was. I was a bouncer at a bar called The Town Tavern in Boone, North Carolina. I actually lived upstairs above the bar in an apartment. So I could just walk downstairs, go to work, come back upstairs… play guitar, you know whatever. And then eventually started getting shows there.”

He continued, “Not very long. By the time I left Boone, we were probably playing three nights a week minimum in Boone, then four to five nights a week around North Carolina. We would drive around the state in my bass player’s Chevy Avalanche and rent a U-Haul trailer and load all the gear up.”

He added, “We had these speakers that were barely loud enough to play anywhere we went. It was a trip. I’m doing all of it. I’m cold-calling bars trying to get gigs, and I’m making and sending press packets and mailing them out to people. I was just trying to get gigs because I was like, ‘This is my job. So I have to apply myself.'”

What was your first job in your life?