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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) What’s Eric Church worth these days? Well, if you ask a ticket scalper, right around $280. That’s the average price for a great seat at one of Church’s [...]
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) He discovered it on his iPhone. That’s how Eric Church found out that his album, Chief, had been nominated for a Grammy for best country album. “I got [...]
It’s happened again. For the second week in a row, an artist has scored his first No. 1 on Billboard‘s country songs chart. This week it’s Eric Church, whose “Drink in My Hand” leapfrogs from No. 3 to the top. Last week the roses went to David Nail for “Let [...]
Eric Church has added 25 dates to his Blood, Sweat and Beers tour, which now extends through May. Church will tour with Brantley Gilbert (“Country Must Be Country Wide”) and a variety of opening acts, including Sonia Leigh, Blackberry Smoke, Jon Pardi, the Cadillac Black and Drake White. Church’s first [...]
Although there are still a few hours of 2011 left on the calendar, the numbers cited in this week’s chart column are from Billboard‘s Jan. 7, 2012 charts, a circumstance that suggests the trade publication has the power to hasten the earth’s turnings. And who are we to argue? Anyway, [...]
Biography
Country singer/songwriter/guitarist Eric Church grew up in Granite Falls, NC, and began singing as a child. At 13, he started writing songs, later teaching himself to play guitar. While attending college at Appalachian State, he formed a band, the Mountain Boys, that played around western North Carolina. After graduating with a degree in marketing, he moved to Nashville, TN, to pursue a career in country music. It took him a year to get a song publishing deal with Sony/ATV Tree, after which he started getting his songs recorded by other artists, an example being Terri Clark’s version of “The World Needs a Drink.” He met producer Jay Joyce, who took an interest in him as a recording artist, and they began making demos. That led to his being signed by Capitol Records Nashville. His debut single, “How ‘Bout You,” was released in early 2006, and it had reached the country Top 20 by the time Capitol released his first album, Sinners Like Me, on July 18, 2006. The album was both a critical and commercial success, and Church followed it up with Carolina in 2009. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi