{"id":6657,"date":"2012-06-13T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T08:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2012-06-13T02:03:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:03:53","slug":"craig-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/craig-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAIG CAMPBELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6658\" title=\"craig-campbell-Q-and-A-March-April-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/craig-campbell-Q-and-A-March-April-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/craig-campbell-Q-and-A-March-April-2012.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/craig-campbell-Q-and-A-March-April-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>CRAIG CAMPBELL<\/h1>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Lyons, Ga.<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>Craig Campbell<\/em>, out now<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> craigcampbell.tv<\/p>\n<p>Craig Campbell first fell in love with music while performing at church, where he played piano for his local Baptist congregation throughout his teens. Winning a regional singing competition at age 15 set his career path in stone. \u201cI wanted to be onstage for sure,\u201d he says. \u201cThe crowd response is what drove it. There\u2019s nothing better than to hear somebody applaud.\u201d He moved to Nashville in 2002 to take a shot at country-music stardom. There he found work playing in local venues and singing on songwriter demos, and learned to write songs with the town\u2019s talented tunesmiths. \u201cIt takes on a completely different meaning whenever you can stand up and say, \u2018Here\u2019s a song I wrote,\u2019 as opposed to, \u2018Here\u2019s a song I like,\u2019\u201d notes Campbell. He attracted the notice of hitmaking producer Keith Stegall, who helmed the singer\u2019s self-titled debut. \u201cIt\u2019s traditional, back-to-basics, true country music,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s what I am.\u00a0I can\u2019t be anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRAIG CAMPBELL HOMETOWN: Lyons, Ga. INFLUENCES: Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt ALBUM: Craig Campbell, out now WEBSITE: craigcampbell.tv Craig Campbell first fell in love with music while performing at church, where he played piano for his local Baptist congregation throughout his teens. Winning a regional singing competition at age 15 set his career path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[3941,3940,3303,3942,3943,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}