The night Scotty McCreery became a father, he started saving little details because he already knew there were moments he never wanted to forget. On October 24, 2022, Scotty and his wife Gabi welcomed their first son, Merrick Avery McCreery, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Avery arrived at 4:34 in the morning. Somewhere in the middle of everything happening around him, Scotty pulled out his phone and photographed the number on the hospital room door. He wanted to remember it well enough to put it in a song someday. That song became “Love Like This.” Scotty wrote about leaving for the hospital, that room, and the moment a nurse asked if he wanted to hold his son. He later remembered another tiny moment from those first hours: Avery was crying during an examination, but when Scotty walked over and spoke to him, the baby recognized his father’s voice and quieted down. Scotty had written love songs before. He had married the girl he had known since childhood. But sitting in that hospital and looking at Gabi and their little boy, he realized there was another kind of love he had never understood until that morning.
The Night Scotty McCreery Became a Father The night Scotty McCreery became a father, everything seemed to happen at once.…