{"id":1320137,"date":"2020-05-21T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1821302"},"modified":"2020-05-21T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:29:20","slug":"craig-morgan-says-hes-not-the-only-guy-who-has-suffered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/craig-morgan-says-hes-not-the-only-guy-who-has-suffered\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Morgan Says He\u2019s Not the Only Guy Who Has Suffered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 46m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Back in 2002, Craig Morgan released the first single off his second album, I Love It<\/em>. It was called \u201cGod, Family and Country.\u201d Fast forward 18 years, and Morgan is going back to those three things that matter most to him. And he\u2019s named an album after that song. God, Family, Country<\/em> is due out on Friday (May 22).<\/p>\n

The album has a new batch of five songs that holds up well right next to five remasters of his older songs.<\/p>\n

One of the first new ones Morgan already released late last year was his heartbreaking tribute to his late son Jerry, \u201cThe Father, My Son and the Holy Ghost.\u201d It\u2019s a song so moving, that once Morgan\u2019s friend Blake Shelton heard it, he was all about it. Morgan told CMT.com that that\u2019s the Shelton he knows, but it\u2019s a side of him his fans may not know well.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t know how good Blake\u2019s heart really is. I do. And I\u2019ve always known that. So it was humbling when Blake did all this, and it was good to know that a lot of the world could see the Blake that I\u2019ve known for a long time,\u201d Morgan said of Shelton\u2019s social media campaign to get the spiritual song up the charts. \u201cHe\u2019s kind of like that country music cheerleader, and people may not know that side of him. And with a platform like he has, I just thought that was the greatest thing ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a lover of country music, you\u2019ve got to share the good stuff. Blake could\u2019ve been like, \u2019Oh cool. Craig has this beautiful song out. That\u2019s cool for him.\u2019 Instead, he was insistent that we all listen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is everything else Morgan told us about making this new album, almost exactly four years after releasing his last studio album.<\/p>\n

On balancing the ups and downs of life on the album:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m not the only one. I\u2019m not the only guy that lost a child. I\u2019m not the only guy that had been in combat. There are lot of people out there. And if they haven\u2019t done that, they know someone who has. So the songs that I write and record are not just relatable to me. And I mean, the reality is I don\u2019t make records for myself. I\u2019m trying to write songs that people out there will want to listen to so that they will come see us in concert at some point. So I tend to keep that in mind. It\u2019s easier to write things when you can draw from personal experience. And I\u2019m fortunate and unfortunate that I have had all of those experiences.<\/p>\n

On narrowing down his abundant supply of older hits to remaster:<\/strong> \u201cWhat I\u2019m finding is that there are a lot of people out there that are just now becoming Craig Morgan fans. So they may not be privy to \u2019That\u2019s What I Love About Sunday,\u2019 for example. And so there\u2019s a new audience that we\u2019re able to tap into that has become new country fans. We felt it was important to have those, and to put some of the songs that were never released as singles that I always thought were great songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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