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Eric Church revealed details about a run of shows “unlike anything you’ve seen before” on Wednesday morning (April 30).
Church is bringing special guests Elle King, Marcus King Band and Charles Wesley Godwin on his headlining “Free the Machine Tour.” The arena tour is slated to kick off on September 12 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with stops in New York, Kentucky, Oregon and other destinations before wrapping up on November 15 in Inglewood, California, the list of tour dates shows. Tickets will be available to the general public beginning Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m. local time.
“From front to back, these shows will be different than anything you’ve ever seen or heard from us before,” Church said in a video message sent to members of his fan club. “I cannot wait to see you on the road for this tour.”
Church’s tour announcement arrives days before he’s set to deliver his next studio album, Evangeline vs. The Machine. The 10-track record, produced by Grammy winner Jay Joyce, includes “Hands Of Time,” “Darkest Hour” and more. The album will be available on Friday (May 2).
1. Hands Of Time (Eric Church, Scooter Carusoe)
2. Bleed On Paper (Tucker Beathard, Casey Beathard, Monty Criswell)
3. Johnny (Eric Church, Luke Laird, Brett Warren)
4. Storm In Their Blood (Eric Church)
5. Darkest Hour (Eric Church)
6. Evangeline (Eric Church, Luke Laird, Barry Dean)
7. Rocket’s White Lincoln (Eric Church)
8. Clap Hands (Tom Waits)
“I’ve always let creativity be the muse. It’s been a compass for me,” Church said in a previous statement of the album. “The people that I look up to in my career and the kind of musicians I gravitate to never did what I thought they were going to do next – and I love them for it. I never want our fans to get an album and go, ‘Oh, that’s like Chief or that’s like this.’ Painstakingly, I lose sleep at night to try to make sure that whatever we do creatively, they go, ‘Wow, that's not what I thought.’ I think that's my job as an artist.”