{"id":19746,"date":"2022-05-11T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=19746"},"modified":"2022-05-11T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T15:39:34","slug":"how-approaching-songwriter-shane-mcanally-changed-walker-hayes-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/05\/how-approaching-songwriter-shane-mcanally-changed-walker-hayes-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How Approaching Songwriter Shane McAnally Changed Walker Hayes Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walker Hayes has a great story about how he jumpstarted his career after 11 desperate years in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>He was working at a Costco when he saw famed Nashville producer Shane McAnally in line at a Smoothie King.<\/p>\n<p>Walker summoned up the courage to ask him for help, and Shane came through.<\/p>\n<p>He signed to McAnally\u2019s publishing company SMACKSongs, and \u201cFancy Like\u201d took off, becoming the viral hit no one saw coming.<\/p>\n<p>Walker told\u00a0Today\u2019s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGratitude is the first, it\u2019s the largest word on my mind right now, and it\u2019s inexpressible the amount of it. And I swear, there\u2019s no way I can sit and be like, \u2019Yay me,\u2019 at all. All I can do is look at people like you and my team and my peers and my family, and just enjoy watching them experience how this has changed their lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_zuB-ogIBw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker Hayes has a great story about how he jumpstarted his career after 11 desperate years in Nashville.","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":[6605,5898,2334,3958,3960],"class_list":["post-19746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-costco","tag-fancy-like","tag-nashville","tag-shane-mcanally","tag-walker-hayes"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 18:20:08","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\/05\/how-approaching-songwriter-shane-mcanally-changed-walker-hayes-life\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19746","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=19746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19748,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19746\/revisions\/19748"}],"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=19746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}