When country singer Walker Hayes met Craig Cooper, the singer was, by his own admission, an “alcoholic atheist.”
Their wives had met and struck up a friendship while sitting in the stands at their kids’ basketball games. Laura Cooper invited the Hayeses to a service in the new church plant her husband was pastoring. After forcing her husband to go, Laney Hayes drove the family there because the singer had been drinking that day.
Here’s how the singer described the scene in his hit song “Craig.”
I met Craig at a church called Redeeming Grace
It’s like he understood my “I don’t want to be here face”