ERIC CHURCH HAS HIS "LIMITS"

Singer's Debut on "Austin City Limits" Premieres November 15th on PBS    

Photo courtesy KLRU-TV/Austin City Limits. Photo by Scott Newton

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Austin, TX—November 13, 2014—"Austin City Limits" (ACL) proudly presents an hour with music sensation Eric Church. The episode premieres Saturday, November 15th at 9pm ET/8pm CT as part of the iconic PBS music series’ milestone Season 40. Church has blazed his own trail to superstardom and now makes his ACL debut with his signature brand of no holds barred country music. ACL airs weekly on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings for times) and full episodes are made available online for a limited time at http://video.pbs.org/program/austin-city-limits/ immediately following the initial broadcast. The show's official hashtag is #acltv40.

Famous for a game changing live show, Church performs songs from his critically-acclaimed, chart-topping 2014 album The Outsiders in his ACL debut. The music rebel’s distinctively hard-rocking spin on country, influenced as much by AC/DC and Metallica as Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings, has earned him a huge audience outside the confines of country radio. Church appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone this year and was named one of their “50 Greatest Live Acts Right Now.” NPR raves, “Eric Church is working on a level that few other country artists of his generation can touch.”

“This is gonna be fun,” says the North Carolina native, clearly enjoying his first visit to the ACL stage. Church's appearance is a twelve-song tour-de-force that presents the performer at the top of his game. Delivering a host of hits in his trademark aviators, Church’s crowd-pleasing set is filled with anthems about youth, family and outliers that ignite through songwriting skill, powerful riffs and energetic vocals. Highlights include the rebellious “The Outsiders”, the autobiographical title track “Sinners Like Me” from his 2006 debut and the Grammy-nominated anthem “Springsteen” from his 2011 breakthrough Chief, with the Austin audience providing the “whoa-ohs” of the chorus. Church brings it all home solo, showcasing his softer side with the heartfelt set-closing ballad “A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young.”

"Eric and his band know how to rock harder than many rock ‘n roll bands," says ACL executive producer Terry Lickona, "and his music and the words behind it have a way of reaching fans way beyond the usual borders of country music. He's a perfect fit for ACL."

Eric Church Setlist:

"Creepin'"

"Guys Like Me"

"Give Me Back My Hometown"

"Cold One"

"Sinners Like Me"

"Homeboy"

"Drink In My Hand" (Click HERE for a preview clip of this song)

"These Boots"

"Smoke A Little Smoke"

"Springsteen"

"The Outsiders"

"A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young"

The complete lineup for the full thirteen-week season, including six new episodes to air beginning January 3, 2015, will be announced in the coming weeks. Check the news section of acltv.com for additional episode updates.

ERIC CHURCH TO TAPE DEBUT PERFORMANCE FOR “AUSTIN CITY LIMITS” ON SEPTEMBER 23

ERIC CHURCH TO TAPE DEBUT PERFORMANCE FOR “AUSTIN CITY LIMITS” ON SEPTEMBER 23

Taping Will Be Part the “ACL” 40th Anniversary Season

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Mar. 05, 2014) – Multi-platinum country music superstar Eric Church will tape his debut performance for “Austin City Limits” on Sept. 23, 2014 as part of the ground-breaking music program’s 40th anniversary season. The television show is taped live before a concert audience at the venue ACL Live at The Moody Theater in downtown Austin, Texas, and will air nationally on PBS Television on a date to be revealed later.

“Eric Church is working on a level that few other country artists of his generation can touch,” said Ken Tucker at NPR Music in his review of Church’s new album The Outsiders, which recently debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Top Country Album Chart. “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. And this is how good he is: Now he'll go out and — through the singles he'll release, the touring he'll do and the videos he'll make — probably turn this personal project into a big commercial deal. The Outsiders deserves nothing less.”

“… this is the kind of record critics imagine Kanye keeps making: a freakish statement of confidence and power from an artist in full command of his gifts,” wrote Michael Robbins in his review for Spin. “Nashville has the deepest grab-bag in contemporary pop right now, but nothing else comes together like Eric Church in the wild.”

Dan Hyman wrote about The Outsiders in Esquire saying, “It's buck-wild, over-the-top, loud, distorted…and decidedly fearless. It's a gem…. It's the sort of take-no-prisoners rock-centered country album that's doing exactly what Nashville's Music Row elite, with their risk-averse, trend-following predilections growing ever more predictable by the day, never could have anticipated: packing stadiums and making massive dollars.”

For more information on The Outsiders and Eric Church, please visit www.ericchurch.com or follow on Twitter @EricChurch and Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ericchurch.