![]() ![]() In a video, Church says the albums “came out of my 28 days in the mountains of North Carolina where the songs were recorded and written” and acknowledged the trying times of the pandemic. Public pre-order begins Friday, January 29. Church Choir pre-order begins Thursday, January 28. In a message sent to the Church Choir earlier today, Eric made a special announcement. The Soul album includes his current single “Hell of a View,” “Jenny” (a song he debuted at Country Radio Seminar last February), and a track titled “Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones.” The ampersand record will be available only to Church Choir members and includes the songs “Through My Ray Bans” and “Doin’ Life With Me.” Since June, the Nashville singer has been releasing individual tracks from a marathon writing session in his home state of North Carolina. Heart features nine songs, including the previously released “Stick That in Your Country Song” and “Crazyland,” along with new song “Heart on Fire,” which leads off the LP. The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year announced his ambitious plan in a video dispatch to his fan club, the Church Choir. Collectively titled Heart & Soul and spanning 24 tracks, the albums will be released over a week in April: Heart on April 16th, one titled & on the 20th, and Soul on April 23rd. The second official single for “Heart and Soul” is titled “ Hell of a View“.Eric Church will follow up his 2018 album Desperate Man with three new albums. The album’s first official single, “ Stick That in Your Country Song” was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance following its 2020 release. The final part, “Soul” had Beathard alongside most of the aforementioned writers collaborating on lyrics. “&”, the part-two of the album, also employed Beathard and some of the names above. Some of them include Travis Hill, Jeff Hyde, Jeremy Spillman, Ryan Tyndell, Casey Beathard and Monty Criswell. ![]() For the other eight tracks in “Heart”, Church received assistance from a bunch of other writers. As a composer, Church had a few more lyricists on his team helping in the whole writing process of the album’s 24 tracks.Ĭhurch solely wrote the first track Heart on Fire for Heart and Jenny for Soul. The recording was done with a 28-day period inside a shuttered restaurant-turned studio on the North Carolina Mountains. The unlikely circumstances under which Church composed this music added more weight to the content of the album. “Soul”, another 9-track set released on 23 rd April 2021.“&”, a 6-track vinyl record released exclusively to his fans on April 20 th 2021.“Heart”, a 9-track set issued on April 16 th, 2021. ![]() While the entire release was done by EMI Nashville, the musician decided to divide it into three separate parts namely: And in that latter regard, the wording of the song is based heavily on a motif honoring Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band whose heyday was during the 1960s.Įric Church’s seventh studio album titled, “Heart & Soul” is a triptych. The lyrics are put together like a comprehensive short story centered around the biracial and musically-inspired Jones. So the story concludes as it began, with Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones’s parents. His mother, who of course played a major advisory role on his life, eventually passes away. And lo and behold, at the funeral there is a ‘Black man dressed in all black’ who identifies himself as his dad.Īnd that’s just about it as far as “Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones” is concerned. And the theory which Eric Church is putting forth is that Jones inherited the spirit of Lynyrd Skynyrd, so to speak, due to his mom being a true fan of the band. Indeed he naturally proved to be a talented guitarist. Meanwhile Jones himself grew up depressed, alienated “and confused” due to his biracial background. That is until he discovered a love of playing music, at the age of 13, after buying a guitar from a pawn shop. ![]()
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