{"id":1826,"date":"2018-10-05T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T07:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T07:55:20","slug":"new-music-released-from-eric-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/10\/05\/new-music-released-from-eric-church\/","title":{"rendered":"New music released from Eric Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August\u2019s candid\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>cover story shortly after\u00a0<strong>Eric Church\u00a0<\/strong>announced his sixth album was in the works, readers learned exactly what the North Carolinian has been shouldering since his\u00a0<em>Holdin\u2019 My Own Tour<\/em>\u00a0wrapped last May. It was the first time the songwriter had spoken out regarding the turmoil and angst of the last year, his processing of it all and the outcome: a collection of 11 songs that tell a broader story with\u00a0today\u2019s\u00a0release of\u00a0<em>Desperate Man<\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His longest stretch amid albums, Church\u2019s pause between\u00a0<em>Mr. Misunderstood\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Desperate Man\u00a0<\/em>was intentional. \u201cI still felt shook up pretty good,\u201d he says of the time he took following a serious health scare and having performed at Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, where dozens of country music fans lost their lives. \u201cI wasn\u2019t ready yet, wasn\u2019t settled from all that happened \u2013 I was still reeling from Vegas, I felt displaced and not really connected to anything. I had to get back to enjoying what we were making and finding refuge in the music as a bit of an anchor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then came a breakthrough for the man\u00a0<em>Music Connection<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>declares \u201ca frankly magnificent songwriter,\u201d in the form of two songs that represented an entirely new direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Snake\u201d \u2013 the first song greeting listeners on\u00a0the album described by\u00a0<em>Esquire<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>as \u201cbrilliant\u201d \u2013 is a menacing, spoken-word parable with a political undertone. \u201cThe rattlesnake and the copperhead\u2014that\u2019s left\/right, blue\/red, however you say it,\u201d says Church. \u201cThey sit there and fight all day to rile people up and then go get a drink. They\u2019re working together while the whole world is burning down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, immediately after, he wrote a simple song called \u201cHippie Radio,\u201d an acoustic meditation on the ways that music is there to mark different phases in your life. And suddenly, Church started to get a notion of where this project might be headed \u2013 to a place\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>dubs \u201cclassic Church: expertly crafted and country radio-friendly, while also pushing boundaries in a way that sounds natural and unforced.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is the day! The new album Desperate Man is available everywhere: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ea2WS9oCMo\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ea2WS9oCMo<\/a><br \/>1.  The Snake<br \/>2.  Hangin\u2019 Around<br \/>3.  Heart Like A Wheel<br \/>4.  Some Of It<br \/>5.  Monsters<br \/>6.  Hippie Radio<br \/>7.  Higher Wire<br \/>8.  Desperate Man<br \/>9.  Solid<br \/>10.  Jukebox And A Bar<br \/>11.  Drowning Man <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7WkWExBhDY\">pic.twitter.com\/7WkWExBhDY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Church (@ericchurch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericchurch\/status\/1048207204598403072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His songwriting prowess serves as the backbone of the project, with\u00a0<em>Vulture<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>noting that his \u201cdevastating pen is pushed to center stage\u201d as \u201c<em>Desperate Man\u00a0<\/em>weaves excellence out of ordinary threads.\u201d Church, who had a hand in writing all 11 songs on the album, is also praised by the\u00a0<em>LA Times<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>as \u201cone of Nashville\u2019s most forthright truth-tellers,\u201d resulting in \u201ca warm, appealingly ragged collection infused with wisdom and reassurance\u201d which\u00a0<em>American Songwriter<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>declares as \u201chis most adventuresome album yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>NPR\u00a0<\/em>opines in this week\u2019s\u00a0<u>First Listen<\/u>, \u201cOn\u00a0<em>Desperate Man<\/em>, Church embodies his heroic image even more completely and convincingly than he has on the five albums that came before it.\u201d As the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>acknowledges, \u201cChurch has never been an easy fit into Nashville\u2019s familiar boxes \u2013 his music is as much rock as it is country\u201d with\u00a0<em>Stereogum<\/em>\u00a0observing that this renegade spirit is what sets him apart: \u201cChurch is someone who\u2019s at the top of his genre because he breaks its rules in big, exciting, arena-filling ways. If that\u2019s not a rock star, I don\u2019t know what is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Country Music Association and seven-time Academy of Country Music Award winner confessed to\u00a0<em>American Songwriter<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>in their September\/October cover story,\u00a0\u201cFor how far we have evolved, we still have the same basic problems. We are all broken, and we are all going to break. It doesn\u2019t matter how far we\u2019ve come or how many pills we come up with or how much technology distracts us; we still want the same things. And you can get through anything in your life with a jukebox, and a bar,\u201d [\u201cJukebox And A Bar\u201d is one of three songs Church penned solo on the album].<\/p>\n<p>And its closing track, \u201cDrowning Man,\u201d addresses the state of our times and the ways artists have (or haven\u2019t) responded. \u201cWith what\u2019s going on in the world, I felt forgotten, left behind,\u201d says Church. \u201cAnd if you go to any bar or concert in America, there are whole groups of forgotten people who are very much alike, who have more in common than not.\u00a0There\u2019s a lot of madness in the world that makes no sense, and it\u2019s not all high tides and yachts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Desperate Man<\/em>\u00a0Track List:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Snake (Written by Eric Church, Jeremy Spillman and Travis Meadows)<\/li>\n<li>Hangin\u2019 Around (Written by Eric Church and Jeff Hyde)<\/li>\n<li>Heart Like A Wheel (Written by Eric Church)<\/li>\n<li>Some Of It (Written by Eric Church, Jeff Hyde, Clint Daniels and Bobby Pinson)<\/li>\n<li>Monsters (Written by Eric Church and Jeff Hyde)<\/li>\n<li>Hippie Radio (Written by Eric Church)<\/li>\n<li>Higher Wire (Written by Eric Church, Casey Beathard and Scooter Carusoe)<\/li>\n<li>Desperate Man (Written by Eric Church and Ray Wylie Hubbard)<\/li>\n<li>Solid (Written by Eric Church and Anders Osborne)<\/li>\n<li>Jukebox And A Bar (Written by Eric Church)<\/li>\n<li>Drowning Man (Written by Eric Church and Casey Beathard)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Produced by Jay Joyce<br \/>\nExecutive Producer Arturo Buenahora, Jr.<\/p>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_74489\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sq93t3J4R5c?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&hl=en_US&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August\u2019s candid\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0cover story shortly after\u00a0Eric Church\u00a0announced his sixth album was in the works, readers learned exactly what the North Carolinian has been shouldering since his\u00a0Holdin\u2019 My Own Tour\u00a0wrapped last May. 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