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One of music’s most electrifying entertainers and prolific songwriters, Eric Church returns with his fourth studio album, The Outsiders, home to his latest hit single, “Give Me Back My Hometown.” Debuting at the No. 1 spot on both the Billboard Top 200 and the Billboard Top Country Album charts, The Outsiders follows-up Church’s Platinum-certified album Chief, (named the 2012 Album of the Year by both CMA and ACM, and Grammy-nominated for Best Country Album) which featured the two No. 1 hits “Drink in My Hand” and “Springsteen” and three additional Top 20 singles “Homeboy,” “Like Jesus Does” and “Creepin'.”
Longtime collaborator Jay Joyce once again joined Church for production duties on The Outsiders. Eric says he made a “conscious effort” to challenge himself on this new project, “We were at a point in our career where I understand that we had two choices. I could’ve continued to do what ‘Drink in My Hand,’ ‘Springsteen,’ ‘Creepin’,’ I know how to do those things. I know how to continue the career that way. I think we made a conscious effort to challenge ourselves artistically and to do something...that was artistic. That’s what we did...That’s what we chose on this album. We made it that way.”
“Eric Church is working on a level that few other country artists of his generation can touch. Shrewd, defiant, sly and funny, Eric Church has succeeded in what he set out to do: He’s using the power he’s accrued from making hit records to make exactly the kind of album he wants, heedless of industry approval." - Ken Tucker, NPR Music