Eric Church has been teasing since early June about new material coming-That moment, has finally arrived! Church has been writing and recording in a rural cabin in North Carolina, since before the coronavirus quarantine changed everything, and this new single was penned by Davis Naish and Jeffery Steele.
“Stick That in Your Country Song,” penned by Jeffrey Steele and Davis Naish, is the first official preview of Church’s next album, the as-yet-untitled followup to 2018’s Desperate Man. Church and a team of writers wrote many of the songs for the project during a retreat in North Carolina.
“I try to put myself in the most uncomfortable situations,” Church had said during the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville in February. “We have to push ourselves to chase. For me, it’s very elusive. With creativity, the harder you try and stress, the more it doesn’t happen.” To that end, this new song shares Church’s take on the current state of the world, and according to a press release, will be a rallying cry for cities from Detroit to Baltimore and people from young military veterans to school teachers.