{"id":67226,"date":"2017-10-06T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=67226"},"modified":"2017-10-06T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T17:00:42","slug":"william-michael-morgan-ive-grown-up-a-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/06\/william-michael-morgan-ive-grown-up-a-little-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"William Michael Morgan: \u2018I\u2019ve Grown Up a Little Bit\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"William Michael Morgan I\u2019ve Grown Up a Little Bit<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s been only a year since\u00a0William Michael Morgan\u2019s freshman\u00a0Vinyl<\/em>\u00a0album was released, but much has happened to him since then. In addition to the album landing in the Top 5, Morgan\u2019s debut single, \u201cI Met a Girl,\u201d\u00a0hit No.1, with his second single, \u201cMissing,\u201d peaking in the Top 30. Morgan also got his first taste of touring on a major tour, hitting the road with co-headliners\u00a0Lee Brice\u00a0and\u00a0Justin Moore\u00a0on their joint American Made Tour.<\/p>\n

\"\"But it wasn\u2019t all highs for Morgan. The 24-year-old also endured a broken\u00a0engagement\u00a0with\u00a0Runaway June\u2019s\u00a0Jennifer Wayne, less than four months after he popped the question. If nothing else, the ups and downs caused Morgan to take a look at his own life, and make some big changes along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve grown up a little bit, I think,\u201d Morgan\u00a0tells\u00a0Sounds Like Nashville<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve left my old crazy ways in the past, especially this past year. We\u2019ve been nose to the grindstone, working, working, working, and putting the drinking and the partying to the side. We don\u2019t drink any more. All we do is write and work and play. No drinking at all. Not a drop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan didn\u2019t necessarily expect\u00a0Vinyl<\/em>\u00a0to be as successful as it was, but he\u2019s grateful for the opportunities it presented him, especially so early in his career.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cIt\u2019s been a whirlwind in the best way possible,\u201d shares Morgan. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of doors open with the album. It was my debut album, so I\u2019m very proud of it. We put as much time in it as we could. You only get one first impression, so we wanted to make it the best one we possibly could. I knew going in that I wanted to pick the best songs, whether I wrote them or not. It\u2019s been a whirlwind of a time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan is already working on his sophomore album which, thankfully, he says won\u2019t be that different from\u00a0Vinyl<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to keep the same feel. I want to keep the traditional feel of it. That was my influence. I grew up on\u00a0Merle Haggard\u00a0and\u00a0Keith Whitley\u00a0and\u00a0George Strait, the King. I want to put as much of that into my music as I can, and still be myself of course. I hope it\u2019s a growing process. I hope with every album that comes out from us, we\u2019re constantly growing and getting bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

William Michael Morgan is playing several fairs and festivals over the next few months. A list of his upcoming shows is available on his website.<\/p>\n

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