Eric Church And His Grammy Nominated Album ‘A Desperate Man’

Eric Church scored two Grammy nominations this week and one of them was in the coveted category of Best Country Album for A Desperate Man. Church discussed the record: “This record…

Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Updated Nov 21, 2019 6:10 PM EST

Eric Church And His Grammy Nominated Album 'A Desperate Man'

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Eric Church scored two Grammy nominations this week and one of them was in the coveted category of Best Country Album for A Desperate Man.

Church discussed the record: “This record was made in the studio, from writing to completion, more than any record we have ever made."

"On ‘The Snake,’ for example, that background part was myself, [banjo player/guitarist] Jeff Hyde and [backing singer] Joanna [Cotten], and we tried to sound the old blues kind of sound. We were doing that creatively in the studio, and it made a really interesting thing. A lot of people will say, ‘Who sang that? who is that?’ Well it was us! We were feeling the creativity.”

Church himself isn't one to social personally, but his team posted to his Instagram yesterday, "Eric has been nominated for best country album for Desperate Man and best country song for “Some Of It” at the 62nd @recordingacademy GRAMMY awards!"

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Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media GroupEditor

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.