Though Walker Hayes has had a bunch of hit songs and is well-known in the country world, he hopes his seven children — Lela, Chapel, Baylor, Beckett, Loxley, Everly and Oakleigh — find their own passions. “There’s a part of me that just thinks, ‘Man, how selfishly, how cool would that be?’ You know, to watch a son or daughter of mine look up to me so much, and think, ‘Man, I want to do what dad does.’ But at the same time, I would never encourage any of my children to choose this path because it’s been quite hard — and it will break your heart. It doesn’t stop doing that, even once you’re succ…
