With the weekend just a few days away, there seemed no better way to celebrate the days off than with a new Eric Church album. On Friday, the country singer will release his latest album with Evangeline vs. the Machine. His first album in nearly four years, the singer wanted to celebrate the new release with more than a few interviews and singles. Instead, he recently announced he would hit the road with the Free the Machine Tour. And besides getting the chance to see Church perform live, he revealed a few singers who would be joining him on the road.
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Announcing the new tour on social media, it appeared that Church will hit the road on September 12th with his first show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With the tour featuring a total of 22 shows, the last concert will bring Church to the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. As for those who will take the stage alongside Church, the lineup included Elle King, Charles Wesley Godwin, and the Marcus King Band.
With Church spending the last several months promoting his newest album, he offered fans a glimpse into his inspiration. “In the day we live in now, with all the social media… you can release a song on Tuesday, another song on Friday, another song on Tuesday. I’m an album artist, always have been, and I think we’ve gotten away from that now. The ‘machine’ is consumption; the ‘machine’ is the world we live in – and the interesting thing about ‘Evangeline’ is it’s kind of creativity versus the machine, and ‘Evangeline’ represents that creativity.”
How Tragedy Shifted The Music Of Eric Church
Reflecting on how Evangeline vs. the Machine is a full body of work, Church also opened up about his shift in music following some tragic events like the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival that left hundreds injured. “You can listen to the music, maybe, and you can see that I was brash, arrogant in a lot of ways. But it changes when you have those things happen to you, and I think it made the music more humble, and maybe more observant.”
And speaking of being observant, the country singer noticed how machines became part of everyday life for kids. Channeling those observations into music, he note, “Everything I look at today involves kids on iPads and kids doing whatever they do on ‘machines,’ and it’s a little bit of a crux between creativity versus the ‘machine’ that tries to manipulate that creativity.”
With a new album and an upcoming tour, it appears that Church is making the most out of 2025 and his new wave of inspiration.
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