{"id":16747,"date":"2019-07-17T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809185"},"modified":"2019-07-17T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:03:10","slug":"craig-morgan-now-55-can-make-a-grown-man-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/craig-morgan-now-55-can-make-a-grown-man-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Morgan, Now 55, Can Make a Grown Man Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:657729?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">7m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Craig Morgan, who confronts 55 candles on his birthday cake today (July 17), pumped out a stream of Top 20 hits between 2002 and 2013, including the No. 1 \u201cThat\u2019s What I Love About Sunday\u201d in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Singles like \u201cRedneck Yacht Club\u201d (No. 2, 2005) and \u201cInternational Harvester\u201d (No. 10, 2007) showed that Morgan was adept at delivering whimsical material. But he\u2019s been even more moving when he took on the heavier material about life\u2019s victims \u2014 the ones who\u2019ve been smacked down by circumstance but who are never quite defeated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dw6Jv0u0P04?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dw6Jv0u0P04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The first of these more somber songs was \u201cAlmost Home\u201d in 2002, which became the singer\u2019s first Top 10. It tells the story of a homeless man who\u2019s found nearly frozen to death but who scolds the good Samaritan who awakens him because he\u2019s been dreaming that he\u2019s \u201calmost home\u201d to his idyllic childhood. Don\u2019t approach his song without a box of tissues at hand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wTjZDArWGlU?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wTjZDArWGlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEvery Friday Afternoon\u201d (2003) is equally tear-inducing. In it, a divorced father reacts to the news that the son he\u2019s had on weekends for the past three years will be moving with his mother to Boston. \u201cIt might as well be China or the dark side of the moon\/There\u2019s no way I can be there every Friday afternoon,\u201d Morgan sings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JNC3mkVgOMo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JNC3mkVgOMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTough\u201d (2007) chronicles a wife and mother with extraordinary strength who smiles her way through every ordeal including cancer. It\u2019s sung from the husband\u2019s point of view. He marvels that \u201cthere was a time\/back before she was mine\/when I thought I was tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eSdItuvBxc8?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eSdItuvBxc8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Finally, we arrive at \u201cThis Ain\u2019t Nothin\u2019\u201d (2010). The scene is the aftermath of a tornado. A reporter approaches an old man walking through the ruins of his home and asks him how it feels to lose \u201ceverything that\u2019s dear.\u201d The old man\u2019s list of losses will really put your own woes in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video and weep. I did.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809185\/craig-morgan-now-55-can-make-a-grown-man-cry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 7m ago Craig Morgan, who confronts 55 candles on his birthday cake today (July 17), pumped out a stream of Top 20 hits between 2002 and 2013, including the No. 1 \u201cThat\u2019s What I Love About Sunday\u201d in 2004. Singles like \u201cRedneck Yacht Club\u201d (No. 2, 2005) and \u201cInternational Harvester\u201d (No. 10, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:28:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}