Eric Church didn’t start wearing sunglasses onstage to make a fashion statement.<\/p>\n
He said it was a way to protect his contacts.<\/p>\n
“I wear contacts and my eyes don’t do real well with lubrication, but we would play all these bars and clubs. The . . . lights would bake my contacts and they’d fall off. So I ended up being blind on stage. Someone suggested glasses and it worked, it ended up being a thing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now it’s to the point that he doesn’t feel right if he’s onstage WITHOUT his shades.<\/p>\n
But Eric doesn’t wear them 24-7, just when he’s performing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Church didn’t start wearing sunglasses onstage to make a fashion statement.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3612,8485],"class_list":["post-27547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-eric-church","tag-sunglasses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 17:24:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/03\/why-eric-church-wears-sunglasses-on-stage\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27547","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=27547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}