![]() I mean, anybody that talked to me, I would go, ‘I can make that a song.’ I don't know if that's good or bad I got quite manic, but it worked. “I got to where I could not turn it off,” he says. Soon, Church was writing songs in his sleep and letting the inspiration take him and his collaborators where the music flowed. I wanted to make sure I walked in with a stud of a song and I would work harder.” And it also put pressure on me: I'm not going to walk in there with anything that I'm not proud of. “We’d finish them by two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and then we'd go in the studio and we'd record them. “Every night, I would stay up most of the night writing songs,” he says. Though they’re three separate albums, Church views the 24 total tracks as a cohesive body of work, all written and recorded in the same place. This is my favorite project for that reason, because I've never really put it all out there like we've done on this one.” And let's commit everything we have to that moment, to that song, and let it be. “Let's write the song that day,” he says, thinking back to their first conversations about Heart & Soul. We have to mess this up.'” It was then that he and his producer, Jay Joyce, decided to follow that instinct. ![]() If it's not broke-' And I stopped him, I said, 'You break it. “I remember having a conversation with my bass player, and I said, ‘Listen, I'm going to bring in some different players on this album,’” he recalls. But there's so much time that the magic just starts to die away.” That isn't what happened with Heart & Soul, a trio of new albums Church wrote and recorded with his band and team of co-writers over the course of a single month at a shuttered-for-the-season restaurant in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. And six months later, we figure out if we're going to go into a studio and cut that song. “And what normally happens, at least in Nashville, is a song is born, and we write the song, and we go home and we make a demo. Heart & Soul is Church's first new music since 2018's Desperate Man.“I've always believed that the moment a song is born is the most important moment of that song's life,” Eric Church tells Apple Music. The middle disc will only be available to members of Church's fan club, the Church Choir. "But it was just a special, special time, and a special, special project that I think will be among our best."Įach of Heart & Soul's three discs is set for release on a different day: Heart is due out on April 16, & will arrive on April 20, and Soul will conclude the project on April 23. "I am the hardest critic on making sure every song deserves to be on the record, and I beat this thing to death going, 'This can't be that good,'" he adds. Is this a double album? And if it's a double album, how do we leave out these five or six songs?'. "I kept saying, 'God, this is going to be really hard. "The interesting thing about this process is that Jay kept asking me the last three or four days, 'Are we done?'" Church reveals. ![]() Early on, instead, he simply aimed to make sure that every song was the best it could possibly be. "For me, it just kinda happened the way it was supposed to happen."Ĭhurch's focus was so on the music-making format, however, that that the idea for a triple album idea came later. ![]() I was not," Church shared backstage at the 2020 CMA Awards, during which he was crowned Entertainer of the Year. "If you listen to the songs and you hear what the songs are, you very easily go, 'This sounds like they were in the middle of quarantine.' But we weren't. The 24-song project came out of the star's marathon recording session in early 2020, which found Church, producer Jay Joyce and a crew of songwriters and musicians writing and recording one song each day in a former restaurant they turned into a recording studio for the occasion. "Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones" closes the Soul disc of Church's forthcoming triple album, Heart & Soul.
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