Eric Church knows how to make a radio hit, but it’s the album deep cuts that make him one of my favorite artists.
In a recent interview with the LA Times “The Chief” talked about his want to play shows again and he believes he’ll be able to soon enough.
“I just want to play shows. Politics’ job is to divide… that’s how you win elections. Those things that unite us are music and sports. The times when, whether you’re a Democrat or Republican or whatever, you throw your arm around the person next to you.”
Which led to him saying that that’s what his song ‘The Snake’ from his 2018 album ‘Desperate Man’ is all about.
“‘The Snake’ is really a song that was written about this political discourse battle Armageddon that I think everybody gets involved in.
And full disclosure, by nature I’m just not a very political person, I think it’s something that’s silly because I kind of get what’s going on, and I feel like in order to be a career politician you have to keep your base riled up. The best way to rile up your base is to attack the other side and the other side does the same thing.
So you have these two sides that are attacking each other vehemently and they’re doing that just so they can stay in office, not for any legitimate reason… I feel like that’s all they do all day and in the meantime, the whole world is burning down.”
You might have seen Church perform this masterpiece of a song with Ashley McBryde at last year’s ACM.
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