{"id":2669,"date":"2020-06-29T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2020-06-29T08:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:27:51","slug":"eric-church-snarls-in-new-single-stick-that-in-your-country-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/06\/29\/eric-church-snarls-in-new-single-stick-that-in-your-country-song\/","title":{"rendered":"ERIC CHURCH SNARLS IN NEW SINGLE: &#8220;STICK THAT IN YOUR COUNTRY SONG&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0Praised by the\u00a0<\/span><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0as a &#8220;forthright truth-teller&#8221; in Country music,\u00a0<\/span><strong>Eric Church\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">shared earlier this year that new music was coming. Writing and recording in a rural cabin in North Carolina, the current ACM Entertainer of the Year nominee has had his eagerly-anticipated new single hinted and speculated at throughout recent performances on\u00a0<\/span><em>ACM Presents:<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Our Country<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0(&#8220;Never Break Heart&#8221;), Stagecouch (&#8220;Jenny&#8221;) and in\u00a0a defiant spoken-word recording, &#8220;Through My Ray Bans.&#8221; Set for a world premiere with iHeart, Cox and Country radio nationwide locked for this Thursday, June 25, at 6 a.m. ET ahead of its release Today, Monday June 29 add date at Country radio, the new single is &#8220;<\/span><strong>Stick That In Your Country Song<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">In keeping with his trademark desire to put fans first, Church initially teased the release in a video sent directly to Church Choir members. &#8220;I wanted you guys to hear from me first that a new single is about to hit the world,&#8221; he shared. &#8220;It&#8217;s gonna be the tip of the spear for what&#8217;s coming after, and it&#8217;s a\u00a0<\/span><em>big<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0spear. I believe it&#8217;s the best we&#8217;ve ever been in our career.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe  id=\"_ytid_24505\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V8KRC5KH7HU?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><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">&#8220;I try to put myself in the most uncomfortable situations,&#8221; Church explained at the CRS &#8220;Chasing Creativity&#8221; keynote event earlier this year. &#8220;Making it hard, and making sure no one is mailing it in. That&#8217;s always something we have to push ourselves to chase. For me, it&#8217;s very elusive. With creativity, the harder you try and stress, the more it doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">Never afraid to speak his truth, Church is celebrated by\u00a0<\/span><em>Esquire\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">as &#8220;one of the most singular working artists in any genre.&#8221; With this\u00a0new single, he offers a social commentary on the state of the world and provides a rallying cry for cities from Detroit to Baltimore an<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">d people from young military veterans to school teachers, culminating in an emphatic &#8220;Stick That In Your Country Song&#8221; as each chorus hits.\u00a0<\/span>With a lyric video highlighting this poignant message, Church again puts the focus on fans first by offering his Church Choir an exclusive sneak peek at the video this Thursday, June 25 ahead of its wide release on Friday, June 26.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">The n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">ew music follows Church&#8217;s most recent critically acclaimed project, 2018&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><em>Desperate Man<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">, his sixth studio album which was named one of the year&#8217;s best by\u00a0<\/span><em>American Songwriter, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Los Angeles Times,\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">NPR,\u00a0<\/span><em>Rolling Stone, Variety\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">and\u00a0<\/span><em>Vulture,\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">among others, also earning a GRAMMY nod for Best Country Album (his third nomination in the category).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;\">For more information, visit\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ebmediapr.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8c2b6ee37a9e18082133cda47&amp;id=92cefdfbab&amp;e=408a6e8495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">www.ericchurch.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ebmediapr.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8c2b6ee37a9e18082133cda47&amp;id=e0bbdb74d4&amp;e=408a6e8495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ebmediapr.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8c2b6ee37a9e18082133cda47&amp;id=93ad787d41&amp;e=408a6e8495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0@ericchurch and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ebmediapr.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8c2b6ee37a9e18082133cda47&amp;id=0da10aaa3c&amp;e=408a6e8495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0@ericchurchmusic.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>About Eric Church<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nThe three-time Country Music Association and six-time Academy of Country Music Award winner released his\u00a0most recent critically acclaimed album,\u00a0<em>Desperate Man<\/em>, atop the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Country Albums chart\u00a0in October 2018. The album also debuted at No. 5 on the\u00a0all-genre\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0200. Church returned to the road for his 2019\u00a0<em>Double Down Tour<\/em>,\u00a0visiting nearly 30 markets for back-to-back nights of two unique shows sans-opening act to give fans 6+ hours of his iconic music in each city. The tour also included a massive stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where Church broke the venue&#8217;s concert attendance record with 56,521 fans and nearly tripled the attendance record he set at Bridgestone Arena in 2017. &#8220;Your Country Song&#8221; is the lead single off a forthcoming project, born from a sequestered session in rural North Carolina where he wrote and recorded 28 songs in 28 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Praised by the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0as a &#8220;forthright truth-teller&#8221; in Country music,\u00a0Eric Church\u00a0shared earlier this year that new music was coming. 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