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Eric Church Defends Polarizing Gospel Performance at Stagecoach
Eric Church defended his Stagecoach set full of gospel covers, saying he was taking country music ‘back to the origin'
He then opened things up with a cover of Leonard Cohen ’s “Hallelujah.” From there, he performed a series of hymns – “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “This Little Light of Mine,” “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “I’ll Fly Away” – with help from a 16-person choir. Amy Sussman/Getty ImagesWhile Church did perform a handful of his songs (“Mistress Named Music,” “Sinners Like Me,” “Desperate Man,” “The Outsiders”), he spent the majority of his set covering artists like Hank Williams(“I Saw The Light”), Marc Cohn(“Walking In Memphis”), Neil Diamond(“I Am.. Alongside his statement, Church’s record label said the set was “an attempt to take the crowd back to the foundation of where it started for him musically.”
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