He led Country Airplay following a productive mountain retreat.
Eric Church performs during America Salutes You Presents: A Tribute To Billy Gibbons, A Live Benefit Concert, at The Grand Ole Opry on May 16, 2021, in Nashville.
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Most people visit a restaurant for a meal, and the wilderness to decompress. For Eric Church, they were the sites of a creative endeavor.
In January 2020, Church settled in with his band at the Artisinal restaurant on the North Carolina side of the Smoky Mountains for a month of music-making. The goal was simple: Write and record a new song each day until he built up enough material for three albums: Heart, & and Soul. The lattermost collection wound up including “Hell of a View,” which topped Billboard’s Country Airplay chart dated May 29, 2021.
