{"id":19977,"date":"2019-11-07T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1814252"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:08:12","slug":"i-wish-grandpas-never-died-and-i-wish-all-the-lyrics-would-be-this-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/i-wish-grandpas-never-died-and-i-wish-all-the-lyrics-would-be-this-honest\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wish Grandpas Never Died and I Wish All the Lyrics Would Be This Honest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:684439?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\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n7m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLWV8QLDuXtv1oFG1fGfCEIq13HccYacKH\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLWV8QLDuXtv1oFG1fGfCEIq13HccYacKH\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Riley Green may get some flak for this, but I am thrilled that he put this line in this video. <\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, Green\u2019s latest tune, \u201cI Wish Grandpas Never Died\u201d is all about things he\u2019s pining for: porches with swings, kids who say \u201csir\u201d and \u201cma\u2019am\u201d, Monday mornings that feel just like Friday nights, cars with truck beds, and coolers that are always full of cold Bud Light. You get the gist. <\/p>\n<p>Then there was this line. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish country music still got played on country radio,\u201d Green sings. I love the sentiment, and he\u2019s not wrong. But imagine you\u2019re a country radio programmer, and you\u2019re deciding whether or not to play it. Tough call, right? So some stations asked Green for a version of the song that didn\u2019t openly criticize their less-than-country playlists. So Green recorded a version with, \u201cI wish George Jones still got played on country radio.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But in the video, Green left the line intact, and it sounds even better when the 3,000 fans at the Phenix City Amphitheater in Alabama were singing that line right along with him. Word for word. <\/p>\n<p>Green wrote the song with his two grandfathers, Buford Green and Lendon Bonds, before they died. And Shaun Silva directed the music video starring Green and all 3,000 of his background singers. <\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1814252\/i-wish-grandpas-never-died-and-i-wish-all-the-lyrics-would-be-this-honest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 7m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. Riley Green may get some flak for this, but I am thrilled that he put this line in this video. In case you missed it, Green\u2019s latest tune, \u201cI Wish Grandpas Never Died\u201d is all about things he\u2019s pining for: porches with swings, kids who say \u201csir\u201d [&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-19977","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 10:58:19","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\/19977","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=19977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}