North Carolina’s Eric Church Releases Music For Those Affected By Hurricane Helene
We knew country music artists would show up and show up quickly. Leave it to one of our amazing artists from the Tar Heel State. North Carolina’s Eric Church releases music for those affected by Hurricane Helene.
North Carolina’s Eric Church Releases Music For Those Affected
According to not only our sources here at the radio station but also the Charlotte Observer, Church said; “It just didn’t feel right to wait”. And the good folks of Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina thank you Eric, I have no doubt.
Eric Is A 2000 Graduate Of Appalachian State University
The 47 year old Granite Falls, North Carolina native released a surprise single called “Darkest Hour”,for “the unsung heroes, the people who show up when the world’s falling apart.” Not only that but the Appalachian State University graduate signed over all the publishing royalties for “Darkest Hour” to the people of North Carolina.
“We’ve been helping with boots on the ground efforts, but this is something that will live beyond just the immediate recovery. This is not a quick thing to fix, so hopefully ‘Darkest Hour’ will be able to contribute to that for a long time to come.” This from an Eric Church press release about the music.
Funds raised from “Darkest Hour” will go into and distributed from Church’s “The Chief Cares” charitable organization. “Chief” if you remember is a nickname passed down to him from his grandaddy, a former police chief in Granite Falls. “The message of the song specifically in this time is about Hurricane Helene and the people that need help, but in a broader view, it’s about any challenging times that we have in our life”.
We would love for you to join us on Tuesday October 8 for our supply drive. We are partnering with first responders in Lincoln County to get the items where they are most needed. To learn more about it including a list of most need items, just go right here.
Five Eric Church Quotes That Reveal His Style
2015 - On people listening to his records
Cooper Neill/Getty ImagesWhen releasing his Outsiders album, Eric said he wanted his listeners to hear the whole album in order of the recordings. He said, “We let the songs dictate what was next. There’s two songs on this album that if you pull them out of the album, I like ‘em, [but] I just don’t love ‘em near as much as if you put ‘em back in because of the space that they give the songs in-between and what I feel when I listen to the record. By themselves? Fine, but in its spot, I love ‘em. It’s an album. It’s start to finish. Shuffle is gonna aggravate me on this if people play shuffle because it’s not right. It needs to be listened to as an album.”
2016 - Talking about his song "Record Year"
Kevin Winter/Getty Images“There’s a line in the song, and it talks about ‘slowly planning my survival/in a three-foot stack of vinyl.’ It’s a great thing about music is it can become a point of therapy and healing.”
2015 - On the song "Talledega"
Rick Diamond/Getty Images“That’s the most interesting thing about the song is it’s about life, and it’s about freezing life and wishing you could freeze life, and we all wish we could do that. I’ve had a few experiences that will stand out forever. They usually involve music in some way that reminds me of it.”
2017 - On being patriotic
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“Both of my grandfathers were World War II veterans. The way that I was raised was very much red, white, and blue and very patriotic, and I think that it’s the fact that what they give up is the real thing that’s very touching to me.”2020 - Backstage after winning Entertainer of the Year from the CMA in a year that no one toured
Jason Kempin/Getty Images“There’s not really been winners this year. I mean, nobody’s played, nobody’s done the things that we normally do. It’s been a year to me of losses. It’s been a year of managing those losses. So it was really hard for me to accept this award, which I have wanted forever, not for me for those people that work so hard. So for me, the hardest thing was to stand there in 2020 and understand that I won that award.”
