{"id":6994,"date":"2025-11-20T08:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=6994"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:44:01","slug":"blake-shelton-tried-to-keep-it-together-but-the-moment-he-broke-down-in-tears-everything-changed-and-when-kelly-clarkson-buried-her-face-in-her-hands-and-sobbed-right-beside-him-the-entire-crowd-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=6994","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton tried to keep it together, but the moment he broke down in tears, everything changed. And when Kelly Clarkson buried her face in her hands and sobbed right beside him, the entire crowd froze. Nobody walked into that studio expecting a normal performance night to turn into the most emotional moment of the whole season. When Craig Morgan stepped onto the stage, the lights dimmed softly, and the room had no clue what was about to hit them. Then he started singing \u201cThe Father, My Son, and The Holy Ghost.\u201d No fancy effects, no background tricks\u2014just one man, his story, and a voice carrying the weight of a broken heart. Each lyric hit the audience like a punch to the chest. You could feel the pain of a father singing for the son he\u2019ll never hold again."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the summer of 2016, country singer\u00a0Craig Morgan\u00a0found himself in the middle of every parent\u2019s worst nightmare. His 19-year-old son, Jerry, passed away following a tubing accident on Kentucky Lake in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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One evening, Craig found himself coping with his heartbreak through song.<\/strong>\u00a0He told\u00a0People<\/em>\u00a0that he woke up in the middle of the night and started writing the entire chorus of a new song about Jerry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was 2:30 in the morning and there I was \u2013 singing the entire chorus in my head before I even woke up enough to put the words down on paper<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That song became what we now know as \u201cThe Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Craig introduced the song during an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry in July 2019.<\/p>\n

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The video of Craig\u2019s Opry performance went viral.<\/p>\n

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When Craig performed the song at the Opry that day, he thought that would be the only time he\u2019d ever sing it.\u00a0But after he finished, he said he got some encouragement from a country legend to continue to share it with the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBut standing there was\u00a0Ricky 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<\/em>,\u201d he told\u00a0People<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So share it he did, and Craig made the song available for purchase on iTunes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After that, one of Craig\u2019s fellow artists and close friends took it upon himself to get \u201cThe Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost\u201d to the #1 spot on iTunes, even if it pushed his own song off of the chart.\u00a0That someone was\u00a0Blake Shelton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the course of several days, Blake embarked on an exhaustive Twitter campaign to introduce Craig\u2019s song to more people. Some radio stations even added it to their rotations after seeing his tweets about it.<\/p>\n

Just as Blake hoped, the song soared to the iTunes country chart\u2019s top spot. Then, it topped the overall iTunes chart as well, and for a time, was the #1 most-downloaded song.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cCongratulations @cmorganmusic. This ones for Jerry<\/em>,\u201d Blake wrote after the song achieved its incredible feat.<\/strong><\/p>\n