A尽管Rock’n’Roll可能并不像曾经一样无所不在，但任何关于其灭亡的谣言都有些早。在美国的整个池塘中，它一直在经历范式转变。佛罗里达佐治亚线，杰森·阿尔迪恩（Jason Aldean）和卢克·布莱恩（Luke Bryan）等“乡村”艺术家曾经涉足曾经是直接摇滚音乐家居住的违规行为，以他们以摇滚为中心的即兴演奏和前卫的歌词吸引了大量的观众。
The biggest and perhaps the most noteworthy of these stars from a guitar perspective is Eric Church: a bona fide superstar Stateside, who sells out stadiums and, along with his band the Outsiders, regularly debuts in the number one spot on the Billboard charts. Something that’s not the norm for country acts.
教堂的音乐被称为“ Outlaw Country”，他的歌词凭借有关杂草，威士忌和道路上的生活困境的歌词，反对艰苦的即兴即兴即兴演奏isthe new rock ’n’ roll. Experiencing Church and The Outsiders live, we witness a towering Marshall backline and a guitar assault that seduces even the hardest rockers among the audience.
Church发行了五张高度商业和备受赞誉的专辑。他的音乐深深植根于吉他，当他对乐器的热情是显而易见的G&B在他的标题设置在该国举行的乡村节之前，请赶上他。
轻柔地说话和放松，您几乎不知道教堂是乡村音乐明星，但由于他的标志性阴影。除了南部的绅士，还潜伏着叛军的灵魂。像他之前的其他人一样，他已经用他的喧闹吉他，挑衅的条纹和充满影射的歌词疏远了保守派纳什维尔音乐大队，所有这些都只能让他对他数百万人的粉丝们敬重。他甚至一次干预，以防止保安人员把一名女子扔到他的一场演出中。
Church grew up in the picturesque town of Granite Falls, North Carolina, where he was both his high school’s valedictorian and basketball star. When not shooting hoops or studying, Church was living for music as a self-taught guitarist who preferred songwriting to socialising. He listened to The Band, Little Feat’s Lowell George and, naturally enough, The Boss [his single,斯普林斯汀, is essentially a fan letter to Bruce]. Besides those influences, his other inspirations are eclectic.
“我最大的影响力可能是有史以来最被低估的吉他手之一 - 杰里·加西亚（Jerry Garcia），”他在一个微妙的南方抽签中解释道。“不仅与死者在一起，而且我还是他在杰里·加西亚（Jerry Garcia）乐队大周年和时代的杰里·加西亚（Jerry Garcia）乐队所做的。除了摇滚吉他外，我还喜欢更多的爵士风格和爵士乐的影响力，而加西亚绝对是一个结合起来的人。
“Plus I’m a fan of unique flatpickers like Tony Rice,” he continues, “so much so that I learnt every single note of the song he did with [mandolinist] David Grisman,俄罗斯催眠曲. Rice is simply one of the finest flatpickers ever. Same with Doc Watson. I grew up in the Appalachian mountains, where we heard folk, Bluegrass and Americana on our front porches.From that, I taught myself to play.”
在蓝草的传统中，教堂在包括班卓琴和曼陀林在内的各种乐器中受过教育。他说：“我从小演奏了许多乐器，但吉他是我选择的武器，这是我的写作工具。”
说到歌曲创作，教会在这方面是多产的，他为他的最新专辑《 2015年》制作了100首歌曲Mr. Misunderstood. He explains that the songwriting muse is not always that generous, with that batch of songs coming to him in an unprovoked creative flash that he wisely exploited.
“通常，有歌曲创作，我会花点时间，尝试将自己与家人分开，并分心。但是这张专辑是完全计划外的，这是不同的，因为这些歌曲传到了我这么快，以至于我写了一首歌，这立即导致了另一首歌曲，然后是另一首歌，依此类推。他们像他们一样来到我身边几乎令人尴尬，我觉得我曾经失去理智，使所有这些歌曲都通过我传来 - 他们也感觉像我职业生涯中最好的歌曲。”
“I’ve had nothing since that happened last summer,” Church laughs. “There are no more songs right now dying to come out. Whatever it was that happened last year during that productive period is gone. Nothin’ since.”
Mr. Misunderstood去年年底发行，赠予80,000张乙烯基专辑的粉丝，没有张贴，也没有采访。教堂回忆说：“歌曲创作的尖头被彻底爆炸，歌曲散发出来，原因是我永远不会知道为什么，而且当时没人期待一张专辑。”“我们没有将其放在架子上以启动促销机，而是将其放到那里。我们一直秘密，直到出来的那一天。为了秘密地做到这一点，没有任何宣传，我们必须在德国购买自己的记录处理工厂。”
尽管在美国许多地方仍然存在北/南文化鸿沟，但教会并非南方辩护者。他承认：“我为来自南方的人感到自豪，而且我不能回避这一点，我认为隐藏这是一种犯罪。”“我希望人们不喜欢我或我的音乐，而不是假装自己不是我的东西。这是我。我是南方人。时期。”
What Church has always been on some level is a rebel – a reputation he has built on over the years. He and his band were once fired from an opening slot on tour by then-headliners Rascal Flatts for, essentially, blowing them off the stage.
“I’ve always been competitive and I am musically competitive too,” he admits. “I don’t always play by the rules, and maybe we played too long and a little too loud for them.”
This admission leads us on to the story behind the aforementioned altercation several years ago with the security guard who tried to throw one of Church’s fans off the stage.
“It was a punch/kick situation,” Church clarifies. “Thing is, we come from a bar and club background and we played some real dives for years, so I can handle the people where we are now just fine. So I don’t need security to handle our fans aggressively.”
每年平均参加200场演出，为教堂提供了令人羡慕的机会，可以在旅途中与他的几个吉他英雄一起敲打。
“There were a couple of times I was lucky to have that happen,” he concurs. “I did a Mavis Staples tribute one night and got to play with the amazing Joe Walsh and Derek Trucks, and that was a total blast. More recently, I got to play with Warren Haynes and we did重量[by The Band].
“我听说过一千次，我敢肯定沃伦也一样，但是那天晚上，我发誓要在那个舞台上听到他的独奏，这是我一生中听到的最伟大的独奏之一。所以，是的，我有一些与我很喜欢的人一起玩的情况，我是一个巨大的Allman Brothers，而Gov不是Mule的粉丝，因此与Warren一起玩是一种荣幸。”
Although Outsiders guitarist Driver Williams plays the lion’s share of the lead parts live, with Church mostly on acoustic, Eric did undertake a fair portion of the lead contributions onMr. Misunderstood,with the odd alternative tuning thrown in.
他解释说：“我最喜欢的调整是Drop D，我会在其中放一个Capo。”“有时我会打开D和开放G。除此之外，这几乎是标准调谐。”
教堂最近宣布，“所有流派都死了”，被解释为试图总结他对标签艺术的徒劳的信念，并点头对当今年轻的年轻粉丝消费音乐的方式表示赞同。
He says: “It can mean both, although I really meant the way that people listen to music has changed, and the way young people listen to music has drastically changed, whether it’s on an iPhone or Spotify, the way people now hear music is not genre-based and they’re not listening by genre. They listen to music for the sake of music. When we grew up, we had specific radio stations, specialised MTV channels for different music and such. All that is gone.”
教堂积累了许多音乐行业奖，但他并不关心荣誉。对他来说，这一切都是关于现场表演的乐趣。
他说：“我认为赢得奖项是很棒的，这绝不是我制作音乐的原因。”“对我来说，峰顶每天晚上都在外面播放歌曲，并让每个人都向我们唱歌。对我来说，重点是绑在我的吉他上，去那里演奏。那真的很重要。这是一种特权。”
吉他会众
现场，教堂使用吉布森蜂鸟与Fishman Matrix Infinity Pickups，以及Gibson Les Paul Specials，Gibson ES-330S，半空心的Goldtop Les Paul和来自孟菲斯的Gibson ES-137。在录音室里，他依靠格雷茨·切特·阿特金斯（Gretsch Chet Atkins）乡村绅士和1961年的马丁00-28G肠道弦声。
故事：Teri Saccone