Next up for Walker Hayes is his first book. It's called Glad You’re Here!, and it's a collaboration with his longtime friend Craig Cooper, whom Walker's song “Craig” was written about. Music Mayhem reports the name of the book comes from a lyric in the song “Craig” and explores the two friends' friendship.
Walker said, “I bought the house next door to (Craig). (The book) uncovers the details of our friendship, my testimony, us losing a baby, so I go in detail about losing (daughter) Oakley and how the Lord has redeemed that. I also talk about my battle with alcoholism and how it’s going. When I met Craig, I was an alcoholic, and now I will be six years sober in October.”
He added, “(This book) documents our life together and what an impact (Craig) and his family had on us and why, which is just because of Christ. The funny thing is when I wrote the song, ‘Craig,’ I did not say the name of Jesus because I would have denied him at that point in my life, I did not believe in Jesus. And while that saddens me, now he’s all I want to sing about. And that’s largely what the song is about, just through unlikely friends becoming neighbors.”
A release date for the book has not been announced yet.
Walker's latest single, “AA,” is making its climb up the country charts.