On Friday (June 7), HARDY debuted the song he wrote for his wife, Caleigh Hardy, inspired by a moment they shared together in the weeks after he was involved in a tour bus accident that resulted in âsignificant injuries.â
HARDY wrote âSix Feet Under (Caleighâs Song)â with a âpowerful momentâ in mind. When he and Caleigh got married in October 2022, only a few weeks after his bus accident, the bride and groom privately exchanged their vows before the wedding ceremony. HARDY said when he recently teased the song that it was âan emotional time,â and âsharing those vows privately with Caleigh was the single greatest moment of my life.â He sings that after the accident, he wasnât scared of death. Instead, he was afraid heâd never see Caleigh again.
Caleigh previously said she âhad a full blown meltdownâ the first time HARDY, whose full name is Michael Hardy, played the song for her. She said âSix Feet Under (Caleighâs Song)â âmeans the absolute world to me. Michael and I cherish that moment on our wedding day more than anything and everything, so to hear those feelings and emotions written in a song is truly an inexplicable feeling.â
HARDYâs newest song follows âQuit!!,â âRockstar,â âPsychoâ and âJim Bobâ from his upcoming, 13-track album, Quit!!. He recently kicked off his headlining tour by the same name. The inspiration for the albumâs tile and the autobiographical, spoken-word title track stems from a moment nearly a decade ago. HARDY previously shared a throwback clip to the moment he accepted his Songwriter of the Year award at the 15th Annual ACM Honors on stage at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee. He said on stage during the 2022 event: âIn 2015, I was playing a songwriter round with a tip jar on the front of the stage. Nobody played on that stage that night had a hit. We just played original songs, and we mightâve made $10 in tips. But one person wrote âQUITâ on a napkin, and they put it in that tip jar. And tonight, that âQUITâ napkin will be sitting right beside this (expletive).â
HARDYâs album, Quit!!, is set to release on July 12. Listen to âSix Feet Under (Caleighâs Song)â here: