Because my eyes are bugging me again--I overdid it this weekend, this post is also going to be a compilation of different pics and info. Enjoy!

Sam, Steph, her daughter, and Alex Norouzi walking around at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games this past weekend. Credit to source. 👇

Steph and Rik Rankin's wife, Sammie Russell backstage at Luke Combs concert this past weekend. Beautiful ladies. ❤️ Credit to the source.👇

Also, I was told that Valbo's wife, Jen and Steph are now mutually following on Instagram. They sat together at the My Peak Challenge Gala. 👇

It cracks me up that shippers think ALL these people in Sam's life now mutually follow with Steph, and somehow she's not his girlfriend. Are they ALL under contract by TPTB for a show that is over? It makes NO sense because it's not true. Logic dictates that ALL these people mutually follow with Steph because she is his serious girlfriend. Not even Mackenzie Mauzy had this many mutual follows and she and Sam dated for 2 years. #stepham is serious serious.

And the haters who call the #stepham relationship a "situationship." 🙄 Um, a situationship is also not followed by everyone important to the man. And a situationship isn't taken as a plus one to every important event in the man's life. And a situationship isn't certainly brought home to spend Christmas with the man's family ffs...and her daughter definitely doesn't go with them practically everywhere. Again, LOGIC dictates that the evidence PROVES Steph is Sam's serious girlfriend. None so blind as those who will not see. 🤷‍♀️

Anyhoo, I was told that Amy Louise, the young woman who sang at the Gala. 👇

And brought Steph to tears with her moving performance. 👇

Is the girl in these screenshots with Sam many years ago. She was battling blood cancer and beat it. And My Peak Challenge and Sam supported her a lot. ❤️ 👇

This is her account now and Steph left her a comment. 👇

You guys, my heart is full--I am SO happy Sam has found Steph, truly a great match!

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2026 TIME100 Gala | Jazz at Lincoln Center | NYC | April 23, 2026

Tracy Chapman has herself said that she didn’t mind the remake because she is the sole writer of the song, and as such, she appreciates the royalties.

Luke’s version is getting a lot of airtime, but so is Tracy’s original version.

And Luke’s sincere and obvious appreciation of Chapman’s song is just icing on the cake:

When Luke Combs set out to cover Tracy Chapman's 1988 hit “Fast Car”, he did it out of complete admiration for the song

Although not every lyric makes sense being covered by a male vocalist, he decided not to deviate from the original lyrics out of respect for its original songwriter.

“You want to just be mega respectful of the original song,” Combs tells Kelleigh Bannen on Today's Country Radio. “That's why in that song ... it’s, ‘Work in the market as a checkout girl.’ I didn’t change that in my version — I really wanted to just do the original version of the song.”

Combs really wanted to bring the song as it was intended to be in presenting it to a new generation of fans who may have only been vaguely familiar with the original.

“It’s weird because you’re doing a cover of it, and you say, ‘I don’t want to make it my own, because I really just want to shine a light on the original version and bring that.’”

“Because I think there’s so many people that maybe know that song, or it would be familiar to them, but they really don’t know anything about it,” he explains. “They’ve never really listened to it.”

“When I recorded this, literally the engineer in there asked me who I wrote that song with,” Combs adds.