Country music phenom Eric Church is gearing up to release eight live covers from his epic project, 61 Days In Church!
The covers, which feature popular music by Soundgarden, Billy Joel, Little Feat, Bob Seger and more, become available on Saturday, April 21st during ‘Record Store Day.’ The musical milestone, released by EMI Nashville, is available on LP with 2,500 exclusive copies available to fans.
Church recorded the ambitious project in 2017 during his Holdin’ My Own Tour, which ran from January through May and was named a Tour of the Year by Rolling Stone.
During the 61-date tour, Church recorded 30 songs per night for a total of more than 200 hours of live music. The ‘Record Store Day’ exclusive release is a selection of the very best cover songs from those shows (available only at participating record stores).
The collection includes the following eight special cover songs:
1. “Better Man” (Live At Tacoma Drive, Tacoma, WA, March 18, 2017)
2. “Turn The Page” (Live At CenturyLink Center, Omaha, NE, April 8, 2017)
3. “Dixie Chicken” (Live at Pepsi Center, Denver, CO, April 5, 2017 with Chuck Leavell)
4. “Six Days On The Road” (Live at PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, April 21, 2017)
5. “Rusty Cage” (Live at Verizon Center, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2017)
6. “Allentown” (Live at Santander Arena, Reading, PA, May 18, 2017)
7. “Midnight Rider” (Live at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN, May 27, 2017)
8. “American Woman” (Live at Pepsi Center, Denver, CO, April 5, 2017 with Glenn Hughes)
The Holdin’ My Own Tour was presented in two sets with an intermission. The tour reached nearly a million fans culminating with two sold-out shows at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Give the North Carolina native’s cover of Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage” a listen below!
“Rusty Cage” Lyrics
You wired me awake
And hit me with a hand of broken nails
You tied my lead and pulled my chain
To watch my blood begin to boil
But I’m gonna break I’m gonna break my
I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run
Yeah I’m gonna break I’m gonna break my
I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run
Too cold to start a fire
I’m burning diesel burning dinosaur bones
Yeah I’ll take the river down to still water and ride a pack of dogs
But I’m gonna break I’m gonna break my
I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run
I’m gonna break I’m gonna break my
I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run
Hit like a Phillips head into my brain
It’s gonna be too dark to sleep again
Cutting my teeth on bars and rusty chains
I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run
When the forest burns along the road
Like God’s eyes in my headlights
When the dogs are looking for their bones
And it’s raining ice picks on your steel shore
I’m gonna break I’m gonna break my
I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run
I’m gonna break I’m gonna break my
I’m gonna break my rusty cage and run
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