{"id":1319204,"date":"2020-03-31T22:01:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819504"},"modified":"2020-03-31T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:01:06","slug":"exclusive-jake-hoot-puts-country-muscle-into-tennessee-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/exclusive-jake-hoot-puts-country-muscle-into-tennessee-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Jake Hoot Puts Country Muscle into \u201cTennessee Strong\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 \/>\n40m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/woXqbE17xi4?feature=oembed\">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\/woXqbE17xi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>The idea for Jake Hoot\u2019s brand new song \u201cTennessee Strong\u201d came to him when he was flying to Nicaragua, but staying in touch with his friends and family on the ground back home in Tennessee. <\/p>\n<p>And it was right after the devastating tornado tore through Nashville and Hoot\u2019s current hometown of Cookeville, Tennessee on March 3. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just remember seeing all these post about #CookevilleStrong, #NashvilleStrong, #LebanonStrong, and thought, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t we united in this?\u2019 I also remember being so devastated at the pictures and posts from so many that had lost so much, but was blown away at the response of so many others who came together to take care of one another,\u201d Hoot told CMT.com. \u201cThe hours and hours people stood in line to give blood, the thousands and thousands of volunteers who showed up to help clean through the rubble, and the first responders who worked for days and days to try and help every single person that they could. I was just speechless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoot explained that when inspiration struck, he wrote a good portion of the new song while he was still in the air. \u201cThen when I got back, Jimmy Fortune, Charles Pevahouse and I wrote the melody and finished the lyrics,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The video for \u201cTennessee Strong\u201d was shot in Cookeville \u2014 about 80 miles east of Nashville \u2014 which was one of the communities that was hit the hardest and suffered the most. Alejandro Medina from Third Lion Productions directed the video. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that people who see the video not only feel led to donate to these families, and see that there are still so many that are being affected, but also to be proud of the state and country that they live in,\u201d he said, \u201cwhere there are still so many amazing people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd most importantly is to remember and never forget that God is in control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of the proceeds from the downloads and streams of the song will go towards the official Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"7eba436a\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thumbnail-1585665576.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thumbnail-1585665576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thumbnail-1585665576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thumbnail-1585665576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thumbnail-1585665576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thumbnail-1585665576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thumbnail-1585665576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/thumbnail-1585665576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"thumbnail\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image \" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\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\/1819504\/exclusive-jake-hoot-puts-country-muscle-into-tennessee-strong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 40m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. The idea for Jake Hoot\u2019s brand new song \u201cTennessee Strong\u201d came to him when he was flying to Nicaragua, but staying in touch with his friends and family on the ground back home in Tennessee. And it was right after the devastating tornado tore through Nashville and [&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-1319204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 16:58:21","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\/1319204","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=1319204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}