Blake Shelton And Kelly Clarkson Cried After Craig Morgan's 'The Father, My Son, And The Holy Ghost' Performance

Oct 29, 2021 by apost team

After Craig Morgan sang “The Father, My Son, And The Holy Ghost” on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” both Kelly Clarkson and Blake Shelton were brought to tears. Morgan debuted the song back in July of 2019 and then performed it on Clarkson’s show on Oct. 17, 2019.

After a tubing accident on Kentucky Lake in Tennessee, Morgan's son Jerry Greer passed away. Devastated by his 19-year-old son’s death, Morgan wrote a new song that became “The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost.” The song ended up becoming a hit after receiving celebrity support.

After debuting the song at the Grand Ole Opry, Craig's song got the attention of country stars such as Shelton. The song eventually topped the iTunes charts at number one, and Shelton tweeted his congratulations:

“Congratulations @cmorganmusic. This ones for Jerry.”

Morgan was then surprised by Shelton himself when he appeared for Morgan's performance of the song on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” in October 2019. In the video, Clarkson and Shelton both gave Morgan a standing ovation while crying after his incredibly moving performance.

Morgan also spoke with Clarkson and Shelton during an intimate conversation about the song and his son’s passing.

“I lost my son in a drowning accident three years ago. I tell some of my friends for them it happened three years ago, but for me it was yesterday. And every day is yesterday,” Morgan said during the emotional interview.

Music proved to be an important outlet for the grieving father and musician, and today country music fans all around the world have heard the popular track dedicated to his son.

“(Music is) extremely therapeutic, it’s like talking about myself, it’s very difficult but it’s also a wonderful thing. Just like the song, he’s not physically here but he’s still very present in our lives,” Morgan said.

Shelton, who said that he attended the funeral with his then-girlfriend Gwen Stefani, also opened up about the song and Greer’s death.

“It’s easy to connect that song to anything that’s happened in your own life. But because Craig has been a friend of mine for so long, and Gwen (Stefani) and I were actually at the funeral,” “The Voice” coach said. “It was his story and it hit me that hard just knowing him and the horrible tragedy, I can’t even imagine. It’s such a great, great song. And he had sent it to me.”

Morgan spoke to People Magazine about the song’s genesis in September 2019. He told the publication that he came up with the song 240 days after Greer’s death while lying in bed.

“It was 2:30 in the morning and there I was, singing the entire chorus in my head before I even woke up enough to put the words down on paper,” Morgan told People of “The Father, My Son and the Holy Ghost.”

“It was the first time something like that had ever happened to me,” he added.

Morgan debuted his song at the Grand Ole Opry, a famous country music venue in Nashville, Tennessee, though he told People that he wasn’t sure whether he would ever record the track or perform it again.

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“I walked off the stage, thinking I might never perform it again,” Morgan told the magazine. “But standing there was Ricky Skaggs, and he told me that I simply had to perform it again. I had to get through this and find a way to share this song with as many people as I could.”

While the song debuted as a single in 2019, it later appeared on Morgan’s 2020 compilation album “God, Family, Country,” which is his most recent release.

The album features five remastered songs from his early years at Broken Bow Records and five new tracks. The album opens with “The Father, My Son and the Holy Ghost.”

Although Morgan has said that music helped him grieve and cope with his immense loss, he also finds solace in his faith. The musician converted to Catholicism around 2017. 

“I attribute my healing to my faith,” Morgan told People in 2019. “It’s still difficult. I mean, Jerry is the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about when I fall asleep. There are times when I am angry and I don’t understand it, and then there are times that I am joyous that we had him for 19 years. You have to let those joyous moments steer you away from the anger. I pray about it all the time. I don’t understand it and I probably never will until I get to heaven.”

According to the country legend’s website, Morgan will be on tour in the U.S. through July 2022.

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