Tyler King Returns Home for Luke Combs Norman Ok Stop at Sooner Stadium

luke combs norman ok gets a local angle on Saturday when Tyler King, the Bartlesville native who plays guitar in Combs’s band, returns to perform at Sooner Stadium. King expects his boss to introduce him as “from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Tyler King,” a line that will land in front of family and hometown supporters.

Bartlesville to Sooner Stadium

King’s route started at 14, when he performed for one of his dad’s friends who owned the Southern Supper Club in South Coffeyville. He had already taught himself guitar as a teenager with a guitar and a chord book at home, and he said his family kept pushing him toward music when he was little.

At 18, he moved to Nashville, where he met Luke Combs at a house party. King said April 24 was the day he started playing with Combs, and a couple of weeks ago he marked his 11th anniversary in the band. That kind of longevity is rare enough in any touring act; for Combs, it has helped keep the lineup stable while the tour moves from market to market.

King and Mat Maxwell

King is not the only Oklahoman on the bill. Bass player Mat Maxwell is from Tishomingo, giving the Sooner Stadium stop an added in-state layer even before the first note. Combs and his band are on a stadium tour across the country, so this date stands out less as a routine night and more as a home-state stop with two musicians carrying Oklahoma into the set.

Luke Combs introduces each member of his band at every show, and King said the moment in Norman will hit differently. “I know I’ll get chills, like, just cause I’m like, yeah, that’s. I’m here, I’m home. And, it’s pretty cool,” he said. He also pointed back to what Oklahoma taught him: “Growing up in Oklahoma, you know, taught me how to be nice to people and work hard and, you know, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Saturday at 5 p.m.

The first act starts tomorrow at 5 p.m. at Sooner Stadium, which gives ticket holders a fixed arrival point before Combs and the band take the stage. For King, the practical takeaway is simple: this is not just another stadium date. It is the one where a Bartlesville guitarist comes home, gets named onstage, and plays for the crowd that can hear the hometown in it.