Country music star Craig Morgan to give free concert at Wal-Mart Open

Singer scheduled to make appearance at FLW Tour event at Beaver Lake on Friday, April 15

After scoring a No. 1 hit on the country music charts with his smash single, That’s what I love about Sunday, and relishing the recent release of his third album, My Kind of Livin’, country music sensation Craig Morgan is setting the stage for his next big adventure – a free concert at the 2005 Wal-Mart Open.

The concert is slated to take place at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, located at 2110 West Walnut in Rogers, Ark., immediately following the 5 p.m. FLW Tour weigh-in (approximate start time 6:30 p.m.) on April 15.

Morgan, who released the self-titled album Craig Morgan (Atlantic Records) in 2000 as well as I Love It (Broken Bow Records) in 2003, says his artistic goal is to continue to translate the beauty of simple, everyday life into his music.

“The point I try to make is that the mundane things are not so mundane after all,” says Morgan in his online biography. “The simple things, like being on a boat with your buddies, or sitting on a porch after church on Sunday, or the tractor you see in Rain for the Roses, are not always part of everybody’s life, because we’re all in such a big rush. But they are all part of who we are.”

Morgan – a former Wal-Mart employee with 10 years of service in the military – has since toured with LeAnn Rimes, Montgomery Gentry, Brad Paisley and Terry Clark, to name just a few of the star-studded musical celebrities he’s been fortunate enough to befriend since his critically acclaimed arrival onto the country music scene in 2000.

But while Morgan argues that he has undergone many changes since his debut album, he insists that the core meaning of his musical message has never wavered.

“I don’t write as much as I used to – maybe 30 songs a year now – but I am writing better,” Morgan says. “I have come to understand that the good songs come naturally. They talk about natural things: Things that might seem mundane or common are the things that we all can envision about ourselves because they are what we do – or, if we do not, they are what we want to do.”

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Listen to and/or purchase Craig Morgan’s latest album, My Kind of Livin’, here.