March 28, 2012 After three albums, Eric Church is finally getting some long overdue recognition -- but it sounds like the singer is used to the long hours and sleepless nights that often come before the rewards of success.
March 22, 2012 What's remarkable about the five nominees in the Album of the Year category are that there are no nods for men named Paisley, Keith, Strait, or Urban, or for women named Underwood or Swift. It's a new dawn, as they say, with a new generation of country artists taking a hold of the genre's future.
When Eric Church is onstage, he feels pretty cool performing to thousands of fans screaming his name. When he's offstage, it's someone else screaming his name -- and that's the best thing in the world. Sure, Church has the look, the voice and the fans, but he's also got one fairly new responsibility: being a dad to almost 5-month-old Boone McCoy.
March 19, 2012 The 2012 ACM Awards are in less that two weeks, so each weekday until the April 1 broadcast Taste of Country will explore the categories and break down what each artist needs to have happen to win in their respective category. With the exception of two fan-voted awards, the winners are decided by members of the Academy. That includes artists, radio station staff and music industry personnel.
It turns out that Eric Church's wildly successful Blood Sweat and Beers Tour is quite appropriately named, as the singer has encountered some roadblocks along the way that just might make a grown man want to cry -- or at least reach for a cold one. Church, who has seen tons of his tour dates sell out before his eyes, filed a lawsuit Tuesday (March 13) to stop vendors who are illegally manufacturing and selling merchandise bearing his name and likeness.
Twenty-one just might turn out to be Eric Church's new lucky number. Church, who is currently criss-crossing the country on his first headlining trek, the Blood, Sweat and Beers Tour, has officially sold out a total of 21 shows, as his upcoming May 19 performance at the legendary Red Rocks Amplitheatre in Morrison, Colo. has just reached capacity.
Earlier this week, Eric Church and his band set out to film a video for Church's 'Springsteen,' the third single from his Grammy-nominated record, 'Chief.' The country hitmaker officially released the single at the beginning of this year, and now he's working on the music video to accompany it. But for the filming, he didn't block off Broadway in Nashville or rent out the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. In fact, according to CMTT, Church was spotted shooting the video in a neighborhood setting in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
March 2, 2012 Late in the day, country artists in Nashville were tweeting about the powerful storms that swept across the state, leaving golf ball-sized hail in their path. You can find some of those tweets in the Taste of Country Daily Roundup, in addition to Scotty McCreery's way of protecting himself against a Brad Paisley prank and the big stage Eric Church will be on next month.
The Academy of Country Music just unveiled the lineup for this year's ACM Weekend on Fremont Street Experience, which will take place the Friday and Saturday leading up to the ACM Awards (March 30 and 31) in Las Vegas. The packed-out lineup for the event will feature several ACM nominees, as well as a handful of guests.
Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 28), Nashville's BMI lobby was packed with the friends, family, industry peers and fellow co-writers of Eric Church, as they all had the same goal in mind: to pour a cold cocktail and celebrate one of country music's hottest stars for his first ever No. 1 single, 'Drink in My Hand.'
