{"id":14191,"date":"2021-04-27T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2021-05-07T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T14:29:26","slug":"thomas-rhett-wanted-to-be-eric-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/04\/thomas-rhett-wanted-to-be-eric-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett Wanted To Be Eric Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wQJvvo7e1jg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>When Thomas Rhett first arrived on the Country music scene, he was having a bit of an identity crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, he developed his own distinct style and sound, but he said that early on, he &#8220;crashed and burned,&#8221; to borrow one of his song titles, by trying to be someone he wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I remember going back into like my very first album and all I wanted to be was Eric Church, you know, like minus the sunglasses, I wanted to be Eric Church. I used Eric&#8217;s producer. I tried to sing like him, and then I remember my first two singles that came out did not do anything at all.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all know that changed for Thomas, who recently charted his 7th career No. One single and 11th consecutive No. One with \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Country Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas&#8217;s fifth studio double album, Country Again: Side A, will be released on Friday, April 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Thomas Rhett first arrived on the Country music scene, he was having a bit of an identity crisis.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3612,32,4898],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-eric-church","tag-thomas-rhett","tag-whats-your-country-song"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 18:58:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/04\/thomas-rhett-wanted-to-be-eric-church\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14515,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}