Eric Church Shares Influential Music Playlist

Written by SLN Staff Writer
Eric Church Shares Influential Music Playlist

Eric Church recently sat down with Country Aircheck to reveal his most influential songs and albums. The country-rocker has a pretty eclectic taste in music, but that doesn’t surprise us!

1. AC/DC’s Back In Black: This is one of those “I-remember-where-I-was-thefirst-time-I-heard-it” records. I burned this CD up when I was in high school, and it was also the reason I got my first speeding ticket two weeks after getting my driver’s license.

2. The Best Of The Band: The Band are the most authentic collaboration of musicians I’ve ever heard. They screamed integrity and never came off as musically pompous. This is also what I listen to when I’m making a record.

3. Little Feat’s Sailin’ Shoes: This album is so good it actually makes me mad. Little Feat and Lowell George are probably the most underrated artists of all time. Lowell was the king of groove and vibe. He was one hell of a slide guitar player. Wish we had him longer than we did.

4. A Taste Of Yesterday’s Wine by Merle Haggard and George Jones: What happens when two of the best artists of all time collaborate and get really messed up on all kinds of mind-altering chemicals? This record happens. It’s splendidly ragged.

5. Tom Petty’s Wildflowers: Seriously — the first record I made out to in high school. ‘Nuff said.

•An album you played or listened to incessantly: The Band’s Music from Big Pink.

• One obscure or non-country song everyone should listen to right now: Anders Osborne’s “My Old Heart.” He’s a New Orleans artist who feels music as good as anyone I’ve ever heard.