May 5, 2025 • 7 mins
It's fun going back in time and discovering these old interviews before the artists became superstars. Here's Eric Church right before his breakout album "Chief" from early 2011.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I hope you're having a great day. It's Bob Piggott
and this is Bob Pickett Radio. I can't tell you
how much fun it is that I'm having going through
some old hard drive, some old videos and finding what
I consider easter eggs or gems. Get me give you example.
Just rediscovered a video interview I do with Eric Church
back in twenty eleven. Now this was right before Eric's
(00:20):
breakthrough album. I say breakthrough album Chief came out a
few months before. It had already released two albums, and
you could tell that he was on the verge of
something big, something really big. There was just something in
the air. So let's go back in time that twenty
eleven early twenty eleven interview with Eric Church.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I's Bob Pikett with us right now in the studio
is Eric Church. Welcome man, It's good to see you say.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's my first time in studio here.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think you like it.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
We probably cleaned up a little bit now. I know
that your star is rising. Love your love to most
hill on the heart. My goodness story.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
We've had two straight Top tens, which is the first
time I've been on I've had a street going in
my career, so it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
The other way.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
It's been good man, our fans that have really been
there for us through this whole thing, and and we've
done things a little differently than a lot of people.
You know. We we build it on the road first,
and it was a live music thing for us, and
we made it all about our fans, and to me,
it's just really gratifying now to sit back and have
that radio success and go to these shows and have
those people that have been there the whole time look
(01:27):
around and there's twice as many people there now, you know,
because of the radio and because people are playing the songs,
and there's just a lot of gratification for seeing those
people who have believe in.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
This old But is it going to change the way
your coach your next out?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, who you look at it now, same style, just
a bigger audioce. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
If I try to, if I try to be somebody
that's not me, it'll all the wheels will come off
this thing, and I hurt, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I just can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So now it will be the same thing.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Now there's a little bit of a target on my back,
But I don't think there's any more of a target
than there was for Carolina. I mean, we made a
great record. Centers like me, critical Acclaim coming into Carolina
and assault more record. I was anxious about it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
But my theory on that is take your time.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
I don't make a lot of records, I never will,
but hopefully the ones I make, we've dotted the eyes,
we've cross the t's, and they're the quality that we
want to be known for. Labels not thrilled about it.
You know, they want a record every Southern period. But
I can't do it that way, especially because I'm writing
all the songs. Yeah, there's no way to I think
the quality would go down here quickly. And I'm an
old school guy. I come from the era where we
(02:28):
made albums. I still love have vinyl player and play records,
and I make an album and hope I have singles.
And most other people make singles and hope they end
up on an album.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I just do it the other way.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So every time we make a record, I turn it
in and I just cross my fingers and hope his
heads on this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Just do it.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
The old fans win out. Look, we'll go round his
neck right now. Yeah, I think what's the Storybut.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Than that, Yeah, he gave me this a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We toured with him and got to hang out with
him some and just you know, there's a lot of
similarities I think in our careers and then our attitude,
and it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Could be a good thing.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
It can be a good thing, bad thing. He took
a liking to me and a great guy went through
them something to fall to.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
He presented me with the necklace and I've got to
go hunting with him and civil war really counting and
hang outside.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So it's kind of weird.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I get to kind of you know, I'll be talking
on my phone talking to him and driving down, driving
around nationally.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You just want to roll, you win and down.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
He's gather.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Now you have your degree in marketing. How does that
translate to the record business.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well, you know a lot of people, Well, you know,
it's a it's a business. You know, I have had
fourteen fifteen guys working for me. We have touring com
merchandise company. You know, I've got crew guys, band guys.
So it's business, you know, merchandise. You know, there's just
a number of things going on out there that involve.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The business side.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Anybody who thinks you just walk on stage and play
guitars and sing and go to nice hote terms and
all that just has.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
No idea what this is about, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
And and the other side is the communication with the
label has helped me a lot. You know, I understand
why they're doing things where I see a lot of
other artists maybe get frustrated and maybe he shut the
label down and then get in a big fight about it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Sometimes it allows me to see what the goal is
for the label.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I understand it's uh, it's all about money and all
about how to make the money.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And you know, I get that A.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Growing fan base for one thing.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, now, when you first came to Nashville, this is
what I was surfing on.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Then for your bio, you had to deal with your dad.
So that way he paid for what the first six
months for you to live in Nashville. That way you
didn't feel any pressure, not happy, but I but I went.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I mean I went to him as an eighteen year
old though, and I said, I don't I don't want
to go to college.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I've changed my mind. I want to go be a
country music star.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
For what you said, well, you can imagine what any
dad would say when an eighteen year old comes to him,
you know. It says that my dad was living, you know,
and be rightfully so. And he said what he knew,
I was hard headed like he is. And he said, well,
I can tell you serious about it, but I tell you what,
if you'll go to college and graduate. He threw that
stipulation in because I had already planned to go for
a semester in the boat. If you go to college
(04:54):
and graduate, I'll pay for your first six months in Nashville.
Your your rent. And he said that way is one
thing to worry about, you know, when you get out there.
That'll be my deal. And I thought, you at the time,
it's a pretty good deal, you know, because I was
nervous about how how I was going to pay the
bills out there anyway, So we shook hands, and true
to his work, when I graduated, he paid for that
first six months.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And then I had to get a.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Real job and pay for the rest of it, you know,
But for the first six months it was good to
give me.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
A little bit of a lego. Any advice for anybody
else wants you with the Nashville.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I think you just you have to be willing to
give up everything else in your life to get this
and everything, because it takes that kind of dedication to
go through all the nose and the slam doors and
the hard nights and just to struggle and even even after.
What's funny is I thought when I got a record deal,
was that part was over.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's been harder. You know, it's harder than because.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Then, well, I think, then you go, okay, you got
to make a record, and then you got to have
hit it radio. And then we've kind of taken a
long way around. You know, we had the career going
one way and made some decisions on purpose because of
who I am that took the career off into the
woods a little bit, and you know, went from playing
arenas to play in small little rock and roll sweat
club Sweatfest, and then we build it back up that
way and came back out. We've came out stronger than
(06:05):
we went in, with a real fan base. But at
the time, when you're going through that, it's.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Pretty lean and pretty hard. You know, you got a
lot of gut checks.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Definitely got to keep you around.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right here, Eric Church, now getting that interviews back from
early twenty eleven, fourteen years ago. And yeah, he's done
a lot since in have you picked up his new album?
Oh it is magnificent Eric Church. Big fan of Eric Church.
And if you like to see the video interview of
that conversation way back then, back in twenty eleven, yeah,
(06:34):
you can just go to my YouTube channel. Got a
couple of channels on YouTube by Bob Pickett Radio course
just like the podcast name, but also b D. Picket Jay,
or just do a search Bob Picket Visits with Eric Church.
Well we'll find some old vintage interviews like that and
bring it back the podcast. Thanks for listening to Bob
Picket Radio podcast. Follow me on Instagram at x Bob
(06:56):
Picket Radio and we'll see on the radio very soon.
Another episode coming up very soon also for Bob Picket
Radio
I hope you're having a great day. It's Bob Piggott
and this is Bob Pickett Radio. I can't tell you
how much fun it is that I'm having going through
some old hard drive, some old videos and finding what
I consider easter eggs or gems. Get me give you example.
Just rediscovered a video interview I do with Eric Church
back in twenty eleven. Now this was right before Eric's
(00:20):
breakthrough album. I say breakthrough album Chief came out a
few months before. It had already released two albums, and
you could tell that he was on the verge of
something big, something really big. There was just something in
the air. So let's go back in time that twenty
eleven early twenty eleven interview with Eric Church.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I's Bob Pikett with us right now in the studio
is Eric Church. Welcome man, It's good to see you say.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's my first time in studio here.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think you like it.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
We probably cleaned up a little bit now. I know
that your star is rising. Love your love to most
hill on the heart. My goodness story.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
We've had two straight Top tens, which is the first
time I've been on I've had a street going in
my career, so it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
The other way.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
It's been good man, our fans that have really been
there for us through this whole thing, and and we've
done things a little differently than a lot of people.
You know. We we build it on the road first,
and it was a live music thing for us, and
we made it all about our fans, and to me,
it's just really gratifying now to sit back and have
that radio success and go to these shows and have
those people that have been there the whole time look
(01:27):
around and there's twice as many people there now, you know,
because of the radio and because people are playing the songs,
and there's just a lot of gratification for seeing those
people who have believe in.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
This old But is it going to change the way
your coach your next out?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, who you look at it now, same style, just
a bigger audioce. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
If I try to, if I try to be somebody
that's not me, it'll all the wheels will come off
this thing, and I hurt, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I just can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So now it will be the same thing.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Now there's a little bit of a target on my back,
But I don't think there's any more of a target
than there was for Carolina. I mean, we made a
great record. Centers like me, critical Acclaim coming into Carolina
and assault more record. I was anxious about it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
But my theory on that is take your time.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
I don't make a lot of records, I never will,
but hopefully the ones I make, we've dotted the eyes,
we've cross the t's, and they're the quality that we
want to be known for. Labels not thrilled about it.
You know, they want a record every Southern period. But
I can't do it that way, especially because I'm writing
all the songs. Yeah, there's no way to I think
the quality would go down here quickly. And I'm an
old school guy. I come from the era where we
(02:28):
made albums. I still love have vinyl player and play records,
and I make an album and hope I have singles.
And most other people make singles and hope they end
up on an album.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I just do it the other way.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So every time we make a record, I turn it
in and I just cross my fingers and hope his
heads on this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Just do it.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
The old fans win out. Look, we'll go round his
neck right now. Yeah, I think what's the Storybut.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Than that, Yeah, he gave me this a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We toured with him and got to hang out with
him some and just you know, there's a lot of
similarities I think in our careers and then our attitude,
and it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Could be a good thing.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
It can be a good thing, bad thing. He took
a liking to me and a great guy went through
them something to fall to.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
He presented me with the necklace and I've got to
go hunting with him and civil war really counting and
hang outside.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So it's kind of weird.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I get to kind of you know, I'll be talking
on my phone talking to him and driving down, driving
around nationally.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You just want to roll, you win and down.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
He's gather.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Now you have your degree in marketing. How does that
translate to the record business.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well, you know a lot of people, Well, you know,
it's a it's a business. You know, I have had
fourteen fifteen guys working for me. We have touring com
merchandise company. You know, I've got crew guys, band guys.
So it's business, you know, merchandise. You know, there's just
a number of things going on out there that involve.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The business side.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Anybody who thinks you just walk on stage and play
guitars and sing and go to nice hote terms and
all that just has.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
No idea what this is about, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
And and the other side is the communication with the
label has helped me a lot. You know, I understand
why they're doing things where I see a lot of
other artists maybe get frustrated and maybe he shut the
label down and then get in a big fight about it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Sometimes it allows me to see what the goal is
for the label.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I understand it's uh, it's all about money and all
about how to make the money.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And you know, I get that A.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Growing fan base for one thing.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, now, when you first came to Nashville, this is
what I was surfing on.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Then for your bio, you had to deal with your dad.
So that way he paid for what the first six
months for you to live in Nashville. That way you
didn't feel any pressure, not happy, but I but I went.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I mean I went to him as an eighteen year
old though, and I said, I don't I don't want
to go to college.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I've changed my mind. I want to go be a
country music star.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
For what you said, well, you can imagine what any
dad would say when an eighteen year old comes to him,
you know. It says that my dad was living, you know,
and be rightfully so. And he said what he knew,
I was hard headed like he is. And he said, well,
I can tell you serious about it, but I tell you what,
if you'll go to college and graduate. He threw that
stipulation in because I had already planned to go for
a semester in the boat. If you go to college
(04:54):
and graduate, I'll pay for your first six months in Nashville.
Your your rent. And he said that way is one
thing to worry about, you know, when you get out there.
That'll be my deal. And I thought, you at the time,
it's a pretty good deal, you know, because I was
nervous about how how I was going to pay the
bills out there anyway, So we shook hands, and true
to his work, when I graduated, he paid for that
first six months.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And then I had to get a.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Real job and pay for the rest of it, you know,
But for the first six months it was good to
give me.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
A little bit of a lego. Any advice for anybody
else wants you with the Nashville.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I think you just you have to be willing to
give up everything else in your life to get this
and everything, because it takes that kind of dedication to
go through all the nose and the slam doors and
the hard nights and just to struggle and even even after.
What's funny is I thought when I got a record deal,
was that part was over.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's been harder. You know, it's harder than because.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Then, well, I think, then you go, okay, you got
to make a record, and then you got to have
hit it radio. And then we've kind of taken a
long way around. You know, we had the career going
one way and made some decisions on purpose because of
who I am that took the career off into the
woods a little bit, and you know, went from playing
arenas to play in small little rock and roll sweat
club Sweatfest, and then we build it back up that
way and came back out. We've came out stronger than
(06:05):
we went in, with a real fan base. But at
the time, when you're going through that, it's.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Pretty lean and pretty hard. You know, you got a
lot of gut checks.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Definitely got to keep you around.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right here, Eric Church, now getting that interviews back from
early twenty eleven, fourteen years ago. And yeah, he's done
a lot since in have you picked up his new album?
Oh it is magnificent Eric Church. Big fan of Eric Church.
And if you like to see the video interview of
that conversation way back then, back in twenty eleven, yeah,
(06:34):
you can just go to my YouTube channel. Got a
couple of channels on YouTube by Bob Pickett Radio course
just like the podcast name, but also b D. Picket Jay,
or just do a search Bob Picket Visits with Eric Church.
Well we'll find some old vintage interviews like that and
bring it back the podcast. Thanks for listening to Bob
Picket Radio podcast. Follow me on Instagram at x Bob
(06:56):
Picket Radio and we'll see on the radio very soon.
Another episode coming up very soon also for Bob Picket
Radio
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