{"id":2426,"date":"2025-09-23T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:15:04","slug":"honor-midnight-train-to-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/honor-midnight-train-to-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"HONOR &#8211; MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The backstory of the classic song \u201cMidnight Train to Georgia\u201d is one that my producer, Dennis Money, and I love! Jim Weatherly originally wrote the song as \u201cMidnight Plane to Houston,\u201d anticipating a country cut from an artist like Glenn Campbell. However, the song was first picked up by Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston\u2019s mother, and later by Gladys Knight and the Pips. Gladys Knight said she didn\u2019t take planes, she took trains, and she was going to Georgia! Thus, the song \u201cMidnight Train to Georgia\u201d was created, and Gladys Knight made it legendary.\u000f\u000fAt SweetSong Nashville, Dennis Money crafted a reimagined country version of \u201cMidnight Train to Georgia,\u201d by replacing the horn section with fiddles and steel guitar. The world-class musicians brought HONOR\u2019s version of \u201cMidnight Train to Georgia\u201d to life with a Nashville twist. SweetSong Nashville and HONOR are both proud to record on an analog system without any vocal-tuning or auto-tuning.\u00a0\u000f\u000fHONOR\u2019s music video was filmed in the SweetSong Nashville studio. The video on YouTube already has over 500,000 views! We have also been blessed to be featured on more than twenty-two different channels, networks, and shows!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The backstory of the classic song \u201cMidnight Train to Georgia\u201d is one that my producer, Dennis Money, and I love! Jim Weatherly originally wrote the song as \u201cMidnight Plane to Houston,\u201d anticipating a country cut from an artist like Glenn Campbell. However, the song was first picked up by Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston\u2019s mother, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/09\/23\/honor-midnight-train-to-georgia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HONOR &#8211; MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}