KimandSeana’s Blog

Eric Church is an artist whose story is as sweet as his music!. Seana and I got invited to his sound check – and even got to meet him – and, nice as can be, he told us how he broke into the scene here and how his persistence totally paid off.

Eric’s desire to play had him itching to leave college – he just wanted to be a musician so badly and didn’t see why he should finish school. His dad made him a deal – he promised to pay for Eric’s first six months of life post-school if Eric stayed to get his degree. Clearly Eric had to say yes – but right after graduation, he headed for Nashville to make that six months count. He played at all the local clubs and worked on his songs. He knew that the six months would go by awfully fast, and that he had to get his name out there. So, smart and resourceful, not waiting for someone to hand his career TO him, Eric got busy – he opened the phone book, looked up all the big publishers, and went from door to door until he found someone who’d sign him.(Song Tree). A few years (and a lot of songs!) later, Eric signed with Capitol Nashville, and today, he has the career he always dreamed of.

You really get the sense here in Nashville that the dream is close. You can meet the people you need to meet, and they’ll talk to you. They’re accessible and human. In New York or LA, it all feels so abstract – there are the big super-powers, and the guards outside, keeping them far away. Nashville, on the other hand, has small town manners and people here believe that good songwriting shouldn’t go unnoticed.

I Heart Nashville
~ xo. Kim