{"id":28590,"date":"2024-05-07T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=28590"},"modified":"2024-05-07T06:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T10:27:34","slug":"former-mlb-pitcher-transitions-to-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/05\/former-mlb-pitcher-transitions-to-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MLB Pitcher Transitions To Country Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League Baseball pitcher Adam Wainwright is now a country musician.<\/p>\n<p>He retired last year after 18 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals and just released his debut album last month called &#8220;Hey Y&#8217;all&#8221; with 13 original songs.<\/p>\n<p>So far things have been going really well for Adam. He played the Grand Ole Opry in March, opened for Zac Brown Band last month, and has a show with Travis Tritt this summer.<\/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\/I5PneMSC_G4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>He says he fell in love with country music when he was nine after his brother put &#8220;The Thunder Rolls&#8221; by Garth Brooks on a mixtape that he listened to over and over.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the songs he mentions on a track called &#8220;A Song Will Bring You Back&#8221;. It also name-drops &#8220;Dixieland Delight&#8221; by Alabama and &#8220;Neon Moon&#8221; by Brooks &amp; Dunn.<\/p>\n<p>Adam says he&#8217;s not sad to leave baseball, he&#8217;s just grateful he could play as long as he did, and is &#8220;excited about these new chapters in life.&#8221;<\/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\/NNcQG5qfhOk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Major League pitcher Adam Wainwright is now a country musician.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":28591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[991,2815,108,5462,994,91],"class_list":["post-28590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-baseball","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-hey-yall","tag-mlb","tag-opry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 05:38:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/05\/former-mlb-pitcher-transitions-to-country-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}