{"id":17657,"date":"2022-01-11T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=17657"},"modified":"2022-01-11T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:12:44","slug":"walker-hayes-to-release-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/01\/walker-hayes-to-release-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker Hayes To Release Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next up for Walker Hayes is his first book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called Glad You\u2019re Here!, and it&#8217;s a collaboration with his longtime friend Craig Cooper, whom Walker&#8217;s song &#8220;Craig&#8221; was written about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musicmayhemmagazine.com\/walker-hayes-details-forthcoming-book-glad-youre-here-inspired-by-his-song-craig\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music Mayhem reports<\/a> the name of the book comes from a lyric in the song \u201cCraig\u201d and explores the two friends&#8217; friendship.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI bought the house next door to (Craig). (The book) uncovers the details of our friendship, my testimony, us losing a baby, so I go in detail about losing (daughter) Oakley and how the Lord has redeemed that. I also talk about my battle with alcoholism and how it\u2019s going. When I met Craig, I was an alcoholic, and now I will be six years sober in October. (This book) documents our life together and what an impact (Craig) and his family had on us and why, which is just because of Christ. The funny thing is when I wrote the song, \u2018Craig,\u2019 I did not say the name of Jesus because I would have denied him at that point in my life, I did not believe in Jesus. And while that saddens me, now he\u2019s all I want to sing about. And that\u2019s largely what the song is about, just through unlikely friends becoming neighbours.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A release date for the book has not been announced yet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5pLNTewIfrg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next up for Walker Hayes is his first book.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[1631,6247,6248,3960],"class_list":["post-17657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-book","tag-craig-cooper","tag-glad-youre-here","tag-walker-hayes"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 14:14:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/01\/walker-hayes-to-release-book\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}