Eric Church – Songs Sung from the Heart

By Raymond Loesch • September 1, 2009

Eric Church started singing at the early age of four, he stood on the table at a local restaurant and sang Oak Ridge Boys classic “Elvira” to a waitress and some local patrons. At the age of thirteen Eric started writing songs. He said “It was before I learned to play guitar. I had a lot in me that I wanted to get out, and I started writing lyrics and singing, and I thought, ‘If I’m going to play these for people, I’m going to have to learn how to play guitar.’” He bought his first guitar a cheap, hard to tune one and taught himself to play. His influences in music started with his parents and ran from Motown to Bluegrass.
It was at a little bar in the North Carolina Mountains, however, when his epiphany came: “I was watching a band that had the place packed,” he says. “I knew the songs they were playing on guitar, but I’d been doing them in my dorm room at Appalachian State and they were doing them in a place that was slamming, with people stuffing money into the tip jar that was being passed around. I thought, ‘I can do this as well as they can,’ and two weeks later I had a gig.”
He created a band called Mountain Boys with his roomate, his brother, and another guitarist. At that time they only knew 14 songs, but they faked their way through a four hour set. Eric began playing his own songs in their sets and started selling CDs of his own material.
Church played basketball, baseball and golf in high school, but in college, he turned to music. Before moving to Nashville, he graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in marketing. His father in return for graduating paid for his first six months in Nashville. Not having to worry about finances gave Eric a chance to cultivate some conacts. The first days were tough ones. “I was scared,” he says.

“I didn’t know a soul. I didn’t know what part of town was good or bad, didn’t know the publishing companies or the industry. I just had something inside me saying, ‘You have to be there.’ That first week was terrifying. I got the phone book and started looking up publishers, thinking, ‘I’ll call these guys, we’ll meet and I’ll get a publishing deal.’ Of course, once you’ve been here you know it doesn’t work that way. I guess a lot of it was being young and stupid, but there’s a lot to being young and stupid. There’s a vitality to that. If you actually had waited a few years and developed common sense you probably wouldn’t do it, but you’re so young you think, ‘I can do this. It’s no big deal.’”

He soon got a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Tree Music Publishing, his first hit as a songwriter was for a song sung by Terri Clark, “The World Needs a Drink“.
Following a showcase, Church signed to Capitol Records‘ Nashville division, with Joyce producing his debut album, Sinners Like Me, which was released on July 18, 2006. The album’s first single, “How ‘Bout You“, reached Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, as did the follow-ups “Two Pink Lines” and “Guys Like Me“. The fourth single, which was the title track, peaked at #51. An additional track from the album, “Lightning“, was made into a music video despite not being released as a single.
In 2008, Church released a fifth single, “His Kind of Money (My Kind of Love)“, to country radio. It debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart at #55 in late April 2008, and reached its peak of #46 in August. Originally slated as the lead single to an upcoming second album, “His Kind of Money” was never released on an album. Following this song was “Love Your Love the Most“, which debuted in late 2008 and is the first single from his second album Carolina, released on Capitol on March 24, 2009. That same month, “Love Your Love the Most” became Church’s first Top 40 country hit since mid-2007. As with his debut album, Carolina was produced by Jay Joyce, and is entirely composed of songs that Church co-wrote.

Carolina Track Listing

1. Ain’t Killed Me Yet
2. Lotta Boot Left To Fill
3. Young And Wild
4. Where She Told Me To Go
5. Longer Gone
6. Love Your Love The Most
7. Smoke A Little Smoke
8. Without You Here
9. You Make It Look So Easy
10. Carolina
11. Hell On The Heart
12. Those I’ve Loved

Where To Catch Eric Church in Concert

Date Time Location
Sep 2 8:00 pm Indiana, PA

Sep 3 8:00 pm Philadelphia

Sep 4 None Syracuse, NY

Sep 5 8:00 pm Showcase Live Foxboro, MA – Purchase Tickets Here

Sep 6 8:00 pm Harrisburg

Sep 7 4:00 pm Pittsburgh

Sep 9 10:15 pm Starkville, MS

Sep 10 9:00 pm Tuscaloosa, AL

Sep 11 8:00 pm Athens, GA

Sep 12 8:00 pm Chattanooga, TN

Sep 13 2:00 pm Evansville, IN

Sep 13 8:45 pm Evansville, IN

Sep 14 6:30 pm York, PA

Sep 24 8:00 pm Birmingham

Sep 25 8:00 pm Ruston, LA

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