Eric Church’s Latest Album Is Out

Eric Church’s brand new album, Desperate Man, didn’t come as easily as his previous five studio albums. In fact, Eric says this one was the hardest record he’s ever made.

“The biggest fear that I had was I didn’t just want to go back into the studio and make a record just because it was time to make a record. And I had some stuff going on. I mean, I had a personal thing with my health, and then I had, then Vegas happened and that will be with me forever. So, I think there was stuff that I had to process on the early part of making this record. And frankly, it made it difficult early. I mean it was tough. It was the toughest record that I’ve made out of all of them. It’s funny, it’s just like anything you do creatively, when you think this is what it’s going to be, this where we are headed, I promise you, were headed here. This is where you are going. Creativity will take over and you will end up on another path and that’s what happened here. My favourite thing about this album, is I know where we started and where we ended up.”

Erich says the album’s title came about in an honest way, as he was feeling very desperate at the time. Eric says he went into the studio to record a few songs that he and his camp thought were perfect but they wound up falling flat.

“After three songs in the studio, none of those three songs are on the album. We were lost, in my opinion. I think there was a lot going on there. I had an interesting year personally, and, just in the studio, that safe-what we thought was gonna be the album wasn’t working with the creative energy. Two different things were going on. So, what’s interesting about Desperate Man is when I went into the album making process, that song was not written. Like a lot of them on the record, they had not been created yet, so I think that desperation of trying to find what this album is, led itself so that song and let it to the title of the album.”

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This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone