Can we talk about church? Yeah,
uh, the song. Yeah,
on the album. So are.
Are we, like,
a bonafide Eric Church fan?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, is that part of y’all’s relationship story, too?
Yeah. Okay.
For sure. Yeah.
I mean, there’s a little bit of fiction in that song.
Like, me and her never drove to the houston rodeo to see eric,
but, um,
in five hours. In five hours,
that would be impossible, um,
unless we flew in a private jet,
which we did not. We were sixteen years old.
Um, but yeah,
I mean, those first.
The first three. But really,
the first two are at Church Records.
These boots in. In Carolina.
Um, I remember,
you know, getting my first truck at 16,
and it was like, that was Eric Church then.
Was like listening to Zach Brian now.
Does that make sense? It was kind of underground.
It had cache and cool, for sure.
It wasn’t universally right accepted.
He was kind of. He was the outlaw.
He sang, he sang.
He would sing about words that you couldn’t say on mainstream radio.
All the stuff. So me and all my buddies,
it was our. That was our favorite.
I was the biggest Eric Church fan that I knew.
Like, when I Learned how to play guitar,
it was Carolina. It was living part of life.
It was Love. Your Love the most.
It was two paint lines. It was sinners like me,
you know, It was all those songs.
And so when this song got pitched to me,
the original way that it got pitched to me was it ended in heartbreak.
Like, the guy and the girl never saw each other again,
but he always reminisced over that time
that they bonded over Eric Church.
And so I kind of came in on the back half
and just rewrote the bridge and the last chorus
because our story ended differently.
You can just smell the nostalgia from that track,
and I think it just takes us back to being younger and.
And just. Just the thrill of,
you know, discovering new music and bonding over that.
And I feel like that’s what’s happening a lot today with, like,
Zach Bryan’s and Wyatt Floreses of the world.
It’s like that’s kind of underground,
and now the masses have it.