Eric Church on Perseverance
I love hearing about how our favorite country artists got their start. Eric Church says he didn’t have much luck at first …
“I remember this one publisher said: ‘Hey, we want you to come play for the head of the company.’ So I sit down and played ‘Lightning’. I got a verse into it and this guy held up his hand. He said: ‘I don’t know where you’re from, but if I were you I’d go back there.’ The next day, I had another meeting, at Sony Tree Publishing, and I played ‘Lightning’. Same deal, the guy put his hand up and stopped me. I thought: ‘Jeez, I’ve got to stop playing this song’ [laughs]. He goes: ‘I’m signing you right now, just on that song.’ That was the beginning.”
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Andie Summers has been the morning show host on XTU for the past 25 years. She is a two-time CMA Major Market Personality of the Year winner and two-time Gracie Award recipient from the Alliance for Women in Media. As a content creator for XTU, Andie enjoys sharing parenting and travel tips, and loves helping you shop online with Must Haves.
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