{"id":29814,"date":"2024-10-04T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=29814"},"modified":"2024-10-04T06:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T10:24:34","slug":"eric-church-shares-unreleased-song-about-kris-kristofferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/10\/eric-church-shares-unreleased-song-about-kris-kristofferson\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Church Shares Unreleased Song About Kris Kristofferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the death of Kris Kristofferson on Saturday, September 28, Eric Church has shared his previously unreleased song, \u201cKickin\u2019 It With Kristofferson,\u201d to honor the country music legend.<\/p>\n<p>Church describes the acoustic demo as a \u201cworktape,\u201d and he shared the spare, emotional number to pay tribute to one of his songwriting heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Church\u2019s song is the soundtrack to his deeply moving Instagram video that features personal clips of the two country musicians hanging out backstage and performing together on stage, along with glimpses of their families spending time together.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAjJCHZJr6l\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Kristofferson was a longtime creative inspiration for Church, with the country star even naming his one-man show after Kristofferson\u2019s song \u201cTo Beat the Devil,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair formed a tight personal and professional bond over the years, and duetted many times in the past, singing together on Kristofferson\u2019s celebrated hits like \u201cMe and Bobby McGee\u201d and \u201cSunday Mornin\u2019 Coming Down.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAhlyxdt9ps\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Church Shares Previously Unreleased Song About Kris Kristofferson","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3612,8980,4353],"class_list":["post-29814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-eric-church","tag-kickin-it-with-kristofferson","tag-kris-kristofferson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 12:14:47","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\/10\/eric-church-shares-unreleased-song-about-kris-kristofferson\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814","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=29814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29815,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814\/revisions\/29815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}