{"id":1320233,"date":"2020-05-28T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1821593"},"modified":"2020-05-28T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:58:34","slug":"chris-young-ponders-if-that-aint-god-then-what-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/chris-young-ponders-if-that-aint-god-then-what-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Young Ponders \u201cIf That Ain\u2019t God,\u201d Then What Is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:674320?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\">14m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I thought I was already all cried out because of Chris Young.<\/p>\n<p>About six months after Young released \u201cDrowning\u201d late last year \u2014 the heartbreaking ballad he wrote with Corey Crowder and Josh Hoge \u2014 I lost a friend of 49 years to the coronavirus. It was healing to listen to the relatable story of how missing someone comes in waves, and tonight I\u2019m drowning. And how I wasn\u2019t ready to say goodbye. And how it ain\u2019t the same here without her.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s brutal, but like most sad country songs, it\u2019s comforting to hear that other people have been here. The video has nearly five million views, and I think about half of those are mine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2F0h19plCQ?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\/v2F0h19plCQ?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>But now, Young has outdone himself. Or I should say he\u2019s done it <em>again<\/em>: taken listeners to a place that you can only get to with a poetic country lyric. He put a mere 56 seconds of \u201cIf That Ain\u2019t God\u201d \u2014 a new song he wrote with Matt Roy, Mitchell Oglesby and Greylan James \u2014 on social media on Thursday (May 28), and here we are again in a vicious circle of listening, crying, listening, crying, listening, crying and finding evidence of God everywhere we look.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">\u201cIf That Ain\u2019t God\u201d \u2026 I don\u2019t know what is <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tNdPnZI9Fn\">pic.twitter.com\/tNdPnZI9Fn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ChrisYoungMusic (@ChrisYoungMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisYoungMusic\/status\/1265779110732759040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><br \/>I ain\u2019t never thought much of getting up<br \/>Or the climb down the stairs to my coffee cup<br \/>Or the good morning news in the background<br \/>\u2019Til I heard somebody on it talking \u2019bout<br \/>The kid from my town, only 8 or 9<br \/>Who took a punch from cancer, but he won that fight<br \/>He had his first home run first time at the plate<br \/>Then he pointed to the sky and it made me think<br \/>If that ain\u2019t God<br \/>If that ain\u2019t Him<br \/>If that ain\u2019t the man upstairs somewhere looking down on us again<br \/>Don\u2019t it make you want to pray?<br \/>Don\u2019t it make you want to live?<br \/>If that ain\u2019t God<br \/>If that ain\u2019t God<br \/>I don\u2019t know what is<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Young is schedule to take the Grand Ole Opry stage on Saturday (May 30) with Chris Janson and Brett Young, but without any fans in the venue\u2019s seats.<\/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\/1821593\/chris-young-ponders-if-that-aint-god-then-what-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 14m ago I thought I was already all cried out because of Chris Young. About six months after Young released \u201cDrowning\u201d late last year \u2014 the heartbreaking ballad he wrote with Corey Crowder and Josh Hoge \u2014 I lost a friend of 49 years to the coronavirus. It was healing to listen [&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-1320233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 06:31:19","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":"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\/1320233","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=1320233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}