{"id":16904,"date":"2019-07-23T08:17:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809373"},"modified":"2019-07-23T08:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:17:12","slug":"what-this-1989-song-means-to-granger-smith-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/what-this-1989-song-means-to-granger-smith-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What This 1989 Song Means to Granger Smith Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 33m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

In early June, the country music world wrapped their virtual arms around Granger Smith after his youngest son River died tragically at the family\u2019s Texas home.<\/p>\n

Now, almost six weeks later, Smith is opening up about the healing process, and how much music is a part of it. On what he calls a special night, he made the eight-minute video to update his fans, friends and family about how he and his wife Amber and their two older children, London, 7, and Lincoln, 5, are doing.<\/p>\n

Smith shot the video backstage, at the show where he was opening for Garth Brooks.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandmother loved \u2019If Tomorrow Never Comes,’\u201d Smith recalled. \u201cAnd when my grandad died she engraved on his tombstone, If tomorrow never comes, will you know how much I love you?\u201d<\/p>\n

(Brooks has said of that 1989 song, \u201cI ran the idea for this song by what seemed like a thousand writers and no one really seemed to understand what I was looking for. On the day that Bob Doyle, my co-manager, introduced me to Kent Blazy, I passed this idea by Kent and he had the first verse down within fifteen seconds. I could tell he just felt it.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight, everything came full circle because we\u2019re out here on tour with Garth Brooks. The guy who taught me as a little kid how powerful lyrics can be. Here in a stadium, playing \u2019Heaven Bound Balloon<\/a>\u2019 to a Garth Brooks crowd, I knew that that was gonna mean something to me. To give a tribute in my own way to Riv.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith goes on to say that music has always been healing to his family, and now more so than ever. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s why people say, \u2019How can you play a show?\u2019 It\u2019s because music is healing. The fans are healing me. You guys are doing the healing for me. It works both ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

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