Carolina

Carolina

by Eric Church
Carolina

Carolina

by Eric Church

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record)

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Overview

"The Man in Black woulda whipped your ass/And I don't think Waylon done it that way" -- Eric Church on "Lotta Boot Left to Fill" It's a great line that Eric Church means when he sings, but he can't quite convince listeners that he's in the outlaw tradition of Cash, Waylon, and Hank. Church sings like a manicured model, striking all the poses and hitting all the notes, but missing that essential grit. Of course, he isn't helped out by the production of his second album Carolina, a recording that gleams pristine, designed for two drinks at an after-work smokeless bar, not a long booze-filled night at a honky tonk dive. It's a commercial sound, one that puts Carolina firmly within the mainstream, and it also fits the contours of Church's voice. No matter how much he sings about being "Young and Wild" and how he likes to "Smoke a Little Smoke," he sounds like a guy who wants to cut loose but can't manage to shed his inhibitions, which kind of keeps Carolina in a bit of a straitjacket, never sounding as big and brawny as it wants to be. Church fares better when things get a little less macho, when he slides into the ballads like "Where She Told Me to Go" or tunes that are a little sprightly, like the poppy "Without You Here" and the wistful title track. Although there's a bit of a puppy-dog charm to Church's yearning to be bad, it's these softer numbers that suit his talents, and he'd be better off relying on this instead of trying so hard to be wild. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 03/19/2021
Label: Emi
UPC: 0602435501024
Rank: 26763

Tracks

  1. Ain't Killed Me Yet
  2. Lotta Boot Left to Fill
  3. Young and Wild
  4. Where She Told Me to Go
  5. Longer Gone
  6. Love Your Love the Most
  7. Smoke a Little Smoke
  8. Without You Here
  9. You Make It Look So Easy
  10. Carolina
  11. Hell on the Heart
  12. Those I've Loved

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Eric Church   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Kenny Vaughan   Guitar (Electric)
Russell Terrell   Vocals (Background)
J.T. Corenflos   Guitar (Electric)
Russ Pahl   Dobro,Pedal Steel
Mark Casstevens   Banjo,Guitar (Acoustic)
Nathan Chapman   Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Bruce Bouton   Dobro,Pedal Steel
Steve Fishell   Dobro,Pedal Steel
Craig Wright   Drums,Percussion
Gary Morse   Dobro,Pedal Steel
Jonathan Yudkin   Fiddle
Jay Joyce   Fender Rhodes,Organ (Hammond),Guitar (Electric)
Jedd Hughes   Mandolin,Guitar (Acoustic)
Luke Bulla   Fiddle
Michael Severs   Guitar (Acoustic)
Bryan Sutton   Banjo,Mandolin,Guitar (Acoustic)
Lee Hendricks   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Stephanie Chapman   Vocals (Background)
Jeff Hyde   Guitar (Acoustic)
Driver Williams   Guitar (Electric)
Ed Smoak   Guitar (Electric),Guitar (Electric)
Bruce Sutton   Banjo
Ilya Toshinskiy   Banjo,Guitar (Acoustic)

Technical Credits

Tony Iommi   Composer
Bill Ward   Composer
F. Reid Shippen   Mixing
Casey Beathard   Composer
Geezer Butler   Composer
Jason Hall   Engineer,Audio Engineer
Lee Moore   Wardrobe
Ozzy Osbourne   Composer
Michael Heeney   Composer,Audio Engineer
Brett Beavers   Composer
Eric Church   Composer
James "Big Jim" Wright   Photography
Andrew Mendelson   Mastering,Remastering
Jay Joyce   Engineer,Producer,Audio Engineer,Audio Production,Drum Programming
Michael Patrick Heeney   Composer,Engineer
Deric Ruttan   Composer
Stephanie Chapman   Composer
Jeff Hyde   Composer
Driver Williams   Composer
Joanna Carter   Creative Director
Jeremy Spillman   Composer
Debra Williams   Grooming
Jill Lamothe   Art Producer
Wendy Stamberger   Design,Art Direction
John Peets   Management
Scott Albert Johnson   Production Assistant
Brandon Church   Composer
Arturo Buenahora, Jr.   Executive Producer
Michelle Hall   Art Producer
Michael P. Heeney   Composer
William Thomas Walsh   Composer
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