Walker Hayes Is Fighting Through Tragedy, Again - #Unfiltered Interview

For the first time, "Fancy Like" singer Walker Hayes is opening up about the great loss his family suffered just before his song became a viral hit. #WalkerHayes #WalkerHayesFancyLike #FancyLike #WalkerHayesMusic 0:00 | Walker Hayes interview 0:45 | How Walker Hayes got here 2:09 | What happened to Walker Hayes? 2:51 | The Hank Williams Jr. influence 3:29 | Songs about Walker Hayes' dad 3:54 | The story of Walker Hayes' "Briefcase" 6:00 | "God was merciful" Find Taste of Country Nights, On Demand: Apple Podcasts → https://bit.ly/TOCOD Spotify → https://bit.ly/TOCNights Listen to: "Fancy Like" - https://youtu.be/G_zuB-ogIBw "Briefcase" - https://youtu.be/E4xEMMO6IrQ "Dad's Sailboat" - https://youtu.be/mZVUvi1tLZA "Love Hate" - https://youtu.be/0Xcc96QPQSw "What You Don't Wish For" - https://youtu.be/F1HCpH5YYag Walker Hayes smiles a lot while talking about his late father, even if the bruise hasn't fully healed. Charles Edgar Hayes — a successful realtor and father to Walker and his eight siblings — died last March, just months before the singer tied a rope to a rocket ship with "Fancy Like." "We just got nominated for a Grammy and I told my wife, on the drive home I was really sad 'cause I wanted to tell my dad," Hayes says. "It was like, 'Wow.' I did not see this coming." The elder Hayes makes a cameo through old photographs in a video for the song called "Briefcase" on the new Country Stuff the Album album. The song is equal parts tribute, equal part note to the singer's own six kids as he follows in his father's footsteps. "Now I get it Dad, it's a juggling act / Between feeding the kids and feeding the dreams we chase," he sings. "I guess a guitar doesn't fall too far from a briefcase." If you're new, Subscribe! → http://bit.ly/subscribe-taste-of-country Download the app → http://tasteofcountry.com/app/ Go here → http://tasteofcountry.com/ Like us → https://www.facebook.com/thetasteofcountry Follow us → https://twitter.com/tasteofcountry Get our newsletter → http://tasteofcountry.com/newsletter/ #CountryMusic #Nashville