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Eric Church On His Role As an Artist: ‘It’s Our Job to Move the Format Forward’

Eric Church takes his role as an artist seriously. Very seriously, in fact. The 43-year-old believes that if he, and other artists, are given a platform, the only respectable way to use that platform is for good, especially when it comes to encouraging diversity within country music. “I think it’s our job, if we’re gonna be artists, if we’re…

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Eric Church Announces the Gather Again Tour, Kicking Off This Fall

Eric Church is hitting the road! The singer, who recently shared a photo of him receiving his COVID-19 vaccine, reveals he will launch his Gather Again Tour on September 17 in Lexington, Kentucky, playing in a total of 55 cities before wrapping up at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on May 20, 2022. Church announced the news to…

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Eric Church Encourages COVID-19 Vaccine: ‘You’ve Got to Get Needles in Arms’

Eric Church is encouraging his fans — all of them — to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The North Carolina native, whose own vaccination currently graces the cover of Billboard, wants to get back to performing live shows, but doesn’t see a way to safely do that, at least in the relatively near future, without everyone getting vaccinated. “I view…

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Casey Beathard Co-Wrote Eric Church’s ‘Hell of a View’ Shortly After Loss of Son

Eric Church‘s current single, “Hell of a View,” was written after an unimaginable loss. The song, from Church’s Heart & Soul, project, was co-written by Church, along with Casey Beathard and Monty Criswell, and inspired in part by the tragic death of Beathard’s son, Clayton, who was killed in a stabbing outside of a bar in December of 2019….

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Eric Church on Recording ‘Heart & Soul’: ‘It Was a Lot Harder Than I Thought’

Eric Church‘s upcoming three-album set, Heart & Soul, was recorded over the course of several weeks while with his band, songwriters, other musicians and producer, Jay Joyce, in the mountains of North Carolina. The massive project comes on the heels of Church’s 2018 Desperate Man record, although there are very few similarities between the two. “The comfort element is…

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Eric Church Kept All of His Employees Salaried Despite Pandemic

Eric Church had one goal when he saw the touring world shut down because of the pandemic: keep all of his employees paid in spite of his loss of income. To most people, that might seem shocking, but to Church, his commitment to the people who work for him far outweighed anything else. “I’ve been able to keep all…

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Eric Church Calls Jazmine Sullivan the ‘Best Singer’ Ahead of Super Bowl LV Performance

Eric Church has yet to meet Jazmine Sullivan, but he is already a big fan. The two singers will sing the National Anthem at this Sunday’s Super Bowl LV, but just based on what Church has heard of her, he is blown away by her talent. “I’ve not met her yet,” Church said on Apple Music Country’s Today’s Country…

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Eric Church Reveals Generous Gift Keith Urban Gave Him for Christmas

Eric Church recently learned what a generous gift giver Keith Urban is, after Urban gave Church an unexpected, and lavish, Christmas present. Church recently shared the story while chatting on Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country. “You know what’s interesting? Keith Urban sent me a 1933 Martin for Christmas,” Church recounted. “This Christmas. I came…

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Eric Church to Release Three Albums, ‘Heart & Soul,’ in April

Go big or go home, at least according to Eric Church! The CMA Entertainer of the Year. just announced he will release three studio albums in April, which were all written and recorded while spending 28 days in the mountains of North Carolina. The entire collection is called Heart & Soul, with each of the three words the title of…

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Eric Church to Sing the National Anthem at Super Bowl LV

Eric Church is heading to the Super Bowl! The singer has been tapped to perform the National Anthem with singer Jazmine Sullivan. H.E.R. will sing “America the Beautiful.” According to People, the collaboration marks the first time two singers have shared the honor since Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin sang the National Anthem together in 2006. The Weeknd will…

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