Backstage at the 60th ACM Awards, Eric Church checked in to talk about his performance on the big show, his new album, 'Evangeline vs. The Machine,' and his upcoming tour. The Chief also told Katie Neal about his spot on Morgan Wallen's upcoming album, due out next Friday.
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00:00We are backstage at the 60th annual ACM Awards with one of our performers, Mr. Eric Church.
00:05How are you?
00:06Good, Katie. How are you?
00:07I'm doing very well. Thank you.
00:08You just released your new album, Evangeline vs. The Machine, a few weeks ago.
00:12Talk about what this collection of songs means to you.
00:15Well, it's an album.
00:16I mean, it's eight songs.
00:17It's meant to be listened to in one setting.
00:20There's no break between any of the songs.
00:22It starts track one, it ends track eight.
00:24And in the world we live in now, disposable as it is and hectic as it is,
00:29it was important to me to put out something that was the opposite of that.
00:33And the creativity with the title, so Evangeline, at least to me, represents creativity.
00:38And The Machine is all the stuff that happens in the world that tries to choke that creativity out.
00:42So that's the essence of what this album is.
00:45Talk about your performance on the show for the ACMs.
00:48We're doing the lead single off Evangeline, which is Hands of Time.
00:52And as I get older, I get more gray.
00:56I'm looking for things, honestly, that make me feel younger.
00:59And music does that for me.
01:01I can hear a song and I'm transported to 16, 17, 18 years old.
01:06And this song's about that.
01:08There's so many great shout-outs to songs that I assume are your favorites.
01:11Did you have a hard time kind of whittling down which ones to use?
01:15Yeah, I mean, all the songs and all the artists that did those songs I have a memory with.
01:19It just has to be good, right?
01:20If you're going to shout-out somebody, it's got to be a good song.
01:22So all those are really good songs.
01:23They absolutely are.
01:24You were also headed out on tour.
01:25You recently announced.
01:26Talk about that.
01:26Yeah, we're heading out in September.
01:28Yes.
01:28So it's going to be the first time we've done that in a while.
01:31And we're taking strings and horns and choir and the whole deal with us.
01:36So it'll be the first time we've...
01:37Nobody's seen us, all the times we've played, hasn't seen us like this.
01:41What are the logistics like touring with a choir?
01:43It's a lot.
01:44Yeah, I'm sure it is.
01:45Well, I'll tell you, I'll let you know in December, okay?
01:47Let me know.
01:47I don't know yet.
01:49Before we wrap up and send you out of here, you've got a feature on Morgan's new album
01:52that comes out next week.
01:53I know the two of you are very close.
01:54What did you think when he sent you over this song?
01:56Well, we were together a lot.
01:58We were actually on a golf trip and he mentioned, you know, he said, I got this song and sent
02:02me the song and I love the song.
02:04And I said, yeah, let's do it.
02:05So I went to the studio and cut it and it's really good.
02:09I'm proud of it.
02:09I'm excited about his record next week too.
02:11Yeah, it'll be amazing.
02:12Eric, thank you so much for stopping by to take time.
02:14We're really excited to see the performance tonight on the ACM Awards.