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Eric Church on His Most Surprising and Rebellious Music
“I was like, I cannot believe this is getting played on country radio.”
Most of the challenges he undertakes are for his listeners: surprise-releasing his 2015 album, Mr. Misunderstood, by mailing it to his fan club, or playing two marathon sets a night on his 2017 Holdin’ My Own tour. That doesn’t mean the fans always receive it well — his acoustic-gospel headlining set at last year’s Stagecoach Festival disappointed many who expected loud, fully rendered versions of his hits instead of covers. I was like, Man, I don’t want to do anything where people can go, “It’s Chief Part II.” And we did one of those things with iHeartRadio where we give them a song and they’ve got to play it every hour.
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