"All I can really say is…thanks for 'The Nothing,'” KoRn. 

“Deep, within our Earth lives an extraordinary force. Very few are aware of the magnitude and significance of this place where good/evil, dark/light, bliss/torment, loss/gain and hope/despair all exist as one, pulling at us every moment of our lives. It’s not something we can choose to navigate, but rather an awareness of this ‘presence’ that surrounds us with every breath, as if we are being watched at every moment.  It’s the place where black and white energies attach themselves to our souls, and shape our emotion, choices, perspective and ultimately our very existence.  There is a miraculous and small realm within this vortex and it’s the only place where balance between these dynamic and polarizing forces exists -where the soul finds its refuge. Welcome to…..THE NOTHING.” 

Those were the very words that KoRn front man, Jonathan Davis, used to describe their new album, titled THE NOTHING. With so much hype around the highly anticipated album, we here at LixeXLive had to create a special station for such an event. That’s right, we forged the KoRn DNA! Expect everything from deep cuts, the band’s influences, side projects, and you know as LiveXLife’s residential metal guy… I’m going to bring in some good KoRn stories as well! With a history like their's, expect some strange ones.

It was three years ago, in July 2016, when Craig Morgan’s 19-year-old son Jerry died in a horrible tubing accident. So it’s understandable that we haven’t heard much in the way of new music from Craig since then, but now he’s back with a song for his son that he first performed on the Grand Ole Opry almost three years to the day after that accident. 

We don’t know how he got through that performance without crying, or how you could have, either. 

Craig says he had no intention of recording it, but a dear friend and fellow Opry member told him he had to. He said, “you must sing this song.” 

When Blake Shelton heard the song, he decided to be Craig’s radio promotion guy, since Craig doesn’t currently have a record deal with a company that would do that for him. Blake tweeted, “I would gladly give up my spot on country radio to get this song on.. Wow [Craig Morgan] you blow me away brother. There’s nothing easy or fun about writing a song like this but sometimes it’s just something you gotta do.”

Blake spent the next few days rallying his fans behind Craig and the song, and not long after was joined by his girlfriend Gwen Stefani, as well as Ellen Degeneres, Travis Tritt, Ricky Scaggs, actress Angie Harmon and lots of others. Then Blake tweeted Carson Daly and Hoda Kotb, and they got on board, too. 

Craig told People the song came to him in a dream, and "I have heard from so many people already who have said that they had given up on their faith until they heard this song. But I’m purely the one singing that song. It’s not about me. I was just the outlet, the way to get the song to the people who need it the most.”

We can’t help what country radio does, but we can support Craig and the song, too. Listen to it on our Nashville Now station here, and be sure to tap that heart button if you love it as much as Blake Shelton and everyone else does!