{"id":19486,"date":"2019-10-19T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813272"},"modified":"2019-10-19T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:00:30","slug":"craig-morgan-i-hope-this-video-lifts-people-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/craig-morgan-i-hope-this-video-lifts-people-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Morgan: \u201cI Hope This Video Lifts People Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:683377?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\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n27m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/craig-morgan\">Craig Morgan<\/a> has already touched the hearts of country fans with \u201cThe Father, My Son and the Holy Ghost,\u201d a song he wrote in honor of his late son, Jerry Greer. Teaming with director Ryan Mclemore, Morgan filmed this emotional music video for the song in the loft at his family\u2019s The Gallery At Morgan Farms in downtown Dickson, Tennessee. The stained glass window of St. Michael is in memory of Jerry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of video shoots seem to go on forever but I was honestly surprised by how quickly it went. It felt like we were done before we got started,\u201d Morgan says. \u201cI thought they did an amazing job portraying the message and vision of the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/embed.vevo.com?isrc=QM4TM1900799&amp;partnerId=6a3aac8d-e6cf-4b8c-a0a7-a68211f002e4&amp;partnerAdCode=\">embed.vevo.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Greer died in a drowning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1768564\/body-of-craig-morgans-son-recovered\/\">accident<\/a> in July 2016. He was 19 years old. Morgan and his family have largely stayed out of the spotlight since then. But over the past few months, Morgan has performed this heartfelt song on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EPsGT61pNU4\">Fox &amp; Friends<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ce5I8f95WEA\">the Grand Ole Opry<\/a>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wq_jfWbiAWw\">The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/a><\/em>, in an effort to spread a message of encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts simplicity embraces the truth of the lyrics of the song,\u201d Morgan says. \u201cI hope this video lifts people up. For anyone who has experienced loss, I want this song to give them the desire to pursue their faith and to have hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1811373\/the-craig-morgan-qa-weve-been-praying-for\/\">exclusive Q&amp;A<\/a> with Morgan, then take a look at our video interview.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:ae579a7b-f2dd-4b34-8c87-16354286813e\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1813272\/craig-morgan-i-hope-this-video-lifts-people-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 27m ago Craig Morgan has already touched the hearts of country fans with \u201cThe Father, My Son and the Holy Ghost,\u201d a song he wrote in honor of his late son, Jerry Greer. Teaming with director Ryan Mclemore, Morgan filmed this emotional music video for the song in the loft at his [&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-19486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 02:55:46","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\/19486","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=19486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}