{"id":1302309,"date":"2019-01-11T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1802171"},"modified":"2019-01-11T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:45:06","slug":"exclusive-mark-wills-preps-opry-induction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/exclusive-mark-wills-preps-opry-induction\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Mark Wills Preps Opry Induction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:666078?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\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">12m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>What makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/mark-wills\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marks Wills<\/a>\u2019 music timeless is he knows that anyone will fall for a good story. He continues to perform songs that set the scene and takes listeners on journeys that span years in seconds; like he does in the <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> setup in the romance that plays out in his 1996 breakout hit, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=jacob%27s+ladder+mark+wills+lyrics&amp;oq=jacob%27s+ladder+mark+wills+&amp;aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i60l2j69i61j0.5831j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob\u2019s Ladder<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the art of storytelling was huge back then,\u201d Wills tells CMT.com of \u201890s country music. \u201cI think if you get down to it, that\u2019s what country music fans want now. I think they want to get back to great stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wills also believes his solid storytelling songs such as \u201cI Do (Cherish You),\u201d \u201c19 Somethin\u2019,\u201d and \u201cBack at One\u201d are what got him an invitation to the Grand Ole Opry. He will be formally inducted tonight (Jan. 11) at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBtgcU9DL24?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\/gBtgcU9DL24?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>\u201cI am so glad that they waited until this time in my career,\u201d Wills adds. \u201cI think as a young person, I would have been honored to have been an Opry member, but I think as we season in our lives things become more important to us. They become more treasured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a whirlwind back at the beginning of my career. As I look back on my career, and I look back on the hits that I\u2019ve had, and as I\u2019m embraced by the Opry family by being their newest member, I think it makes me more appreciative of it today than it would have if I were a 24-year-old kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wills is working on new music that will be released later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a big influx of \u201890s-inspired music out there, and I do feel honored to have been a big part of that,\u201d Wills says. \u201cSo, what I\u2019m looking at doing today is revitalizing that \u201890s country sound with 2019 production.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1802171\/exclusive-mark-wills-preps-opry-induction\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 12m ago What makes Marks Wills\u2019 music timeless is he knows that anyone will fall for a good story. He continues to perform songs that set the scene and takes listeners on journeys that span years in seconds; like he does in the Romeo and Juliet setup in the romance that plays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 07:17:35","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}