Career, Success and Home Life Happiness Go Hand In Hand
“I tell people all the time ‘I’m not a redneck, I’m not a hillbilly and I’m not a cowboy. And I don’t pretend to be,” says Craig Morgan in Origins: Craig Morgan premiering Wednesday, November 14, 10:00 p.m./EST on GAC. “What I am is a country boy.”
Morgan is a native Tennessean who’s raised his family on a five-acre spread in Dickson, TN., west of Nashville. Those who know him best – his wife, his father, his manager, even his Army commander – help tell Morgan’s story of two successful careers, one as a chart-topping country star and one as a respected military man. In fact, he’s the first to admit that he nearly chose to make the Army his career. “When I was in the Army, I caught myself playing guitar and writing songs. I’d come home on a four-day weekend and go to Nashville and do a writer’s night but I was still in the Army fulltime,” Morgan says. “I had a family so I didn’t want to jump out of the Army and go to something that wasn’t going to happen.”
