Biography eric church

From GAC:

There are rare times when it's all in the grooves, and Eric Church's debut is one of those times. His new project is a sonically breathtaking, lyrically compelling collection that hearkens to the line of thoughtful, rugged individualists who have always given country music its most challenging and nuanced work.

It is a line that passes through Merle Haggard to Waylon Jennings to John Prine and is finding a handful of torchbearers in this new century.

There is wistful reflection on fate in "What I Almost Was" and "The Hard Way," where insight and maturity are always hard-won, and offhand looks at male/female relationships in "Can't Take It With You" and "Two Pink Lines." "These Boots" spins a scuffed but comfortable metaphor for the drifter, the man more comfortable in motion, searching for another song, another love, another audience, as satisfaction and regret race neck and neck down life's backstretch.