Let The Day Begin...Let The Day Start!: Day 249 - Siouxsie and The Banshees (2)

Peep Show - Siouxsie and The Banshees

Polydor

Produced by Siouxsie and The Banshees, Mike Hedges

Released 5th September 1988

UK Chart #20

US Chart #68

 Tracklist

 A1 Peek-A-Boo
A2 The Killing Jar
A3 Scarecrow   
A4 Carousel
A5 Burn Up
B1 Ornaments Of Gold
B2 Turn To Stone
B3 Rawhead And Bloodybones
B4 The Last Beat Of My Heart
B5 Rhapsody

Personnel
    Siouxsie Sioux – vocals
    Steven Severin – electric bass
    Budgie – drums, percussion and harmonica
    Martin McCarrick – cello, keyboards, accordion
    Jon Klein – guitar

Singles from Peepshow

    Peek-a-Boo / False Face
    Released: 18 July 1988

UK Chart #16

US Chart #53

    The Killing Jar / Something Wicked (This Way Comes)
    Released: 19 September 1988

UK Chart #31

    The Last Beat of My Heart / El Dia De Los Muertos
    Released: 21 November 1988

UK Chart #44

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Peep Show was the ninth studio album from Siouxsie and The Banshees and the first recorded as a five piece. Martin McCarrick on Keyboards and other instruments added some surprising twists and turns to the sound and Jon Klein began a seven year term with the band on guitar (he had previously been with Gothic band Specimen).

Melody Maker had declared that the lead single for the album, Peek-a-Boo, was "quite the most astounding British record" of 1988, and "a brightly unexpected mixture of black steel and pop disturbance." 

Record Mirror reviewer Kevin Murphy concluded his review by saying: "Peepshow is the Banshees' finest hour." NME noted a change of approach in the musical direction: "Peepshow is the best Banshees record since A Kiss in the Dreamhouse because it's the Banshees deciding to be a pop band rather than a rock group"

Burn Up is probably my favourite track on the album. It's a rather strange, almost rockabilly flavoured tune with Cello (by McCarrick) and Harmonica (by Budgie, though live Siouxsie would play the harmonica).

Siouxsie and The Banshees were always one of those bands that gave you surprises with each new album. They were not followers of trends, rather they were the trendsetters and that dated right back to 1978 with their debut album The Scream.

Dedicated to my good friend

Vera Howard

Happy Birthday!

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Let The Day Begin...Let The Day Start!: Day 248 - Sugar

Copper Blue - Sugar

Creation / Rykodisc

Produced by Bob Mould and Lou Giordano

Released 4th September 1992

UK Chart #10

 Tracklist
The Act We Act
A Good Idea
Changes
Helpless
Hoover Dam
The Slim
If I Can't Change Your Mind
Fortune Teller
Slick
Man On The Moon

Personnel
    Bob Mould - guitars, vocals, keyboards, percussion
    David Barbe - bass
    Malcolm Travis - drums, percussion

Singles from Copper Blue

 Changes / Needle Hits E / If I Can't Change Your Mind (Solo Mix) / Try Again

Creation 12" UK

Did Not Chart

The Act We Act / Where Diamonds Are Halos / Slick  / Armenia City in the Sky 

Creation 12" UK

UK Chart #65

If I Can't Change Your Mind / Clownmaster / Anyone (Live) / Hoover Dam (Live)

Creation 12" UK

UK Chart #30

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Back last year I included Copper Blue in the occasional series The Best Debut Albums and rightly so. Twenty Four years on from its release it is still an album that is captivating from start to finish.

NME named it as their Album of the Year in 1992 and it was then and still is the most successful of all the projects that Bob Mould has been involved in (including hiw work with Hüsker Dü and his various Solo albums).

After two Solo albums, Workbook (1989) - which had been a quieter affair than anything he done previously with  Hüsker Dü - and Black Sheets of Rain (1990) - which was a bit of a return to the heavier sound - Bob Mould took a short detour from his solo career and put together a new band called Sugar.

On the 20th anniversary of the album The Quietus posted a great assessment of the album and an interview with Bob Mould discussing Copper Blue. Part of their conclusion regarding the album then I would be in hearty agreement with today:

"Revisiting Copper Blue is to find an album that hasn’t dated in the slightest. It deals with the kind of universal truths that aren’t time bound and its animalistic sonic power remains undiminished. Indeed, listening to the newly re-mastered version of this masterpiece is to be introduced to even more strength and energy than one had expected. Ultimately, Copper Blue is an album that not only sounds as good now as it did twenty years ago, but also one that’ll still blow cobwebs away two decades hence."

Read The Quietus Interview Here.

Whilst recording Copper Blue they also managed to record enough songs to make the follow up, Beaster. I have a few friends who seem to prefer that to the debut, but for me Copper Blue remains one of my most favourite albums ever and I have lost count as to how many times I've played it in the 24 years since its release (easily into four figures now I reckon).

In 2012 Bob Mould toured all over the place playing the album from start to finish and to this day many of the songs from it still feature in his live set.

Songs From Copper Blue Live

Bob Mould

The Act We Act.

A Good Idea.

Changes.

Helpless.

Hoover Dam.

The Slim.

If I Can't Change Your Mind.

Fortune Teller.

Slick.

Man On The Moon.

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Let The Day Begin...Let The Day Start!: Day 247 - X-Ray Spex

Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex

EMI International

Produced by Falcon Stuart and X-Ray Spex

Released November 1978

UK Chart #30

 Tracklist
A1 Art-I-Ficial
A2 Obsessed With You
A3 Warrior In Woolworths
A4 Let's Submerge
A5 I Can't Do Anything
A6 Identity
B1 Genetic Engineering
B2 I Live Off You
B3 I Am A Poseur
B4 Germ Free Adolescents
B5 Plastic Bag    
B6 The Day The World Turned Dayglo

Personnel
    Poly Styrene - vocals
    Jak Airport - guitar
    Paul Dean - bass
    Rudi Thomson - saxophone
    B.P. Hurding - drums

Additional personnel
    Ted Bunting - saxophone on "Identity" & "The Day the World Turned Dayglo"

Singles from Germ Free Adolescents
    

"The Day The World Turned Day-Glo" / "I Am A Poseur"

 March 1978

EMI International, INT 553

UK Chart #23

 "Identity" / "Let's Submerge" 

July 1978

EMI International, INT 563

 UK Chart #24

"Germfree Adolescents" / "Age" 

October 1978

EMI International, INT 573 

 UK Chart #19

"Highly Inflammable" */ "Warrior in Woolworths" 

April 1979

EMI International, INT 583  

UK Chart #45 

*Highly Inflammable is not on the original album release but the B-Side Warrior in Woolworths is, hence the reason I have included it.

It was included on further editions of the album - the Caroline 1991 edition and then on the 2005 CD Reissue that also included the Debut Single Oh Bondage Up Yours / I Am A Cliche as well as the two John Peel Sessions:

20th February, 1978.
6th November, 1978. 

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I have been listening to this one over the past week, quite a few times actually since one of my friends had posted about it and I'd almost forgotten what a cracking album it is.

People always go on about the great Punk Debut Albums and list the likes of The Clash, The Damned, The Stranglers, The Jam, The Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees but Germ Free Adolescents rarely gets mentioned at all. I have no idea why that is because it is a classic album and right up there with those already mentioned. Maybe it's because the sound was a lot cleaner and maybe more bordering on pop than those named above.

Whatever the reason, the album has stood the test of time and songs like Identity for instance still have a lot to say to the world in 2016!

Live at The Roundhouse.
On 6th September 2008 X-Ray Spex performed the Germ Free Adolescents album (omitting Plastic Bag). It was released on CD/DVD. They were sounding on fine form.

 Original X-Ray Spex guitarist Jak Airport later worked for the BBC's Corporate and Public Relations department under his real name, Jack Stafford; he died in his late forties on 13 August 2004 of cancer.

Poly Styrene died of spinal and breast cancer on 25 April 2011 in East Sussex, England at the age of 53.

This one's in memory of them both.

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Alternative Press Music Awards 2016: Good Charlotte

At the Alternative Press Music Awards 2016 Good Charlotte came away with the 1st Classic Album Award for The Young and The Hopeless.

The Young and The Hopeless - Good Charlotte

Epic

Produced by John Feldman and Eric Valentine

Released 1st October 2002

US Chart #7

UK Chart #15

Listen to The Young and The Hopeless Here.

 Singles from The Young and the Hopeless
    

"Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"
    Released: September 6, 2002

US Chart #20

UK Chart #8

    "The Anthem"
    Released: February 28, 2003

US Chart #43

UK Chart #10

    "Girls & Boys"
    Released: May 12, 2003

US Chart #48

UK Chart #6

    "The Young and the Hopeless"
    Released: July 4, 2003
UK Chart #34

  

    "Hold On"
    Released: December 6, 2003

US Chart #51

UK Chart #9

Good Charlotte

Accept 1st Classic Award Album

 Good Charlotte perform hits "The Anthem," "Girls And Boys" and "Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous" from their APMAs Classic Album award-winning 'The Young And The Hopeless.'

 

with guest vocalists Kellin Quinn of Sleeping With Sirens, Anthony Raneri of Bayside and Awsten Knight of Waterparks

2016 Winners
The winners of a Skully are:
    Best Vocalist: Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy
    Best Live Band: Neck Deep
    Breakthrough Band: State Champs
    Best Bassist: Skyler Acord of Issues
    Best International Band: You Me At Six
    Artist Philanthropic Award: Jake Luhrs (Heartsupport)
    Best Guitarist: Jack Fowler of Sleeping With Sirens
    Best Drummer: Christian Coma of Black Veil Brides
    Best Underground Band: Too Close To Touch
    Most Dedicated Fanbase: The Ghost Inside
    Best Music Video: "Emperor's New Clothes" by Panic! at the Disco
    Song of the Year: ''Hallelujah'' by Panic! at the Disco
    Album of the Year: ''Blurryface'' by twenty one pilots
    Artist of the Year: twenty one pilots
    Vans "Off The Wall" Award: Yellowcard
    'Icon Award:' Marilyn Manson
    'Classic Album Award': ''The Young and the Hopeless'' by Good Charlotte

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Girlschool

Dedicated to

Mick Thompson

Happy Birthday Fella!

A double dose of Girlschool today as part of The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series and a bit of a continuation with the Girls With Guitars theme begun yesterday.

Live From London

Camden Palace 1984

Setlist

1.C'Mon Let's Go
2.Nowhere To Run
3.You Got Me
4.Play Dirty
5.Love Is A Lie
6.Hit And Run
7.Out To Get You
8.Rock Me Shock Me
9.Running For Cover
10.Can't You See
11.Running Wild
12.I Like It Like That
13.Ready To Rock
14.Emergency 999

Live at Wacken

Germany 

5th August 2016

Setlist

Demolition

C'mon Let's Go

The Hunter

Hit and Run

I Spy

Come the Revolution

Take It Like a Band

Future Flash

Kick It Down

Watch Your Step

Race With The Devil

Emergency

Let The Day Begin...Let The Day Start!: Day 246 - Girlschool

I was wanting to carry on a little  with the theme I kind of started yesterday with the Girls With Guitars posts and that got me thinking about a number of bands and one in particular jumped out at me and as I've not really posted a lot before regarding them I thought I'd rectify that with this one.

Girlschool are a British heavy metal band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene in 1978 and frequently associated with contemporaries Motörhead. They are the longest running all-female rock band, still active after more than 38 years. 

Formed from a school band called Painted Lady, Girlschool enjoyed strong media exposure and commercial success in the UK in the early 1980s with three albums of 'punk-tinged metal' and a few singles, but rapidly lost their momentum in the following years.

In the 1990s and 2000s, they concentrated their efforts on live shows and tours, reducing considerably the production of studio albums. They  released their 13th Studio album Gulity As Sin a year ago. (You can listen to the Title Track Here and also Take It Like A Band - Here)

During their long career, Girlschool travelled all over the world, playing in many rock and metal festivals and co-headlining with or supporting some of the most important hard rock and heavy metal bands. They maintain a worldwide cult following and are considered an inspiration for many succeeding female rock musicians.

Hit and Run Revisited - Girlschool

Wacken Records / UDR

Produced by Tim Hamill and Girlschool

Released September 2011

Hit and Run Revisited was the 12th Studio album from Girlschool and was a complete re-recording of their second and most commercially successful album from 1981, Hit and Run. It was made to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the original release and included two bonus  cuts - a Re-Recorded version of Demolition that was the title track to their Debut Album and also another version of Hit and Run featuring German Metal vocalist Doro Pesch who had been the lead vocalist for Warlock. You can listen to the original album below.

Girlschool are still on the go today featuring three of the original band: Kim McAuliffe - Rhythm Guitar, Lead and Backing Vocals; Enid Williams - Bass, Lead and Backing Vocals; and Denise Dufort - Drums and Backing Vocals.

Jackie Chambers - Lead Guitar, has been with the band since 1999/2000 but has been connected to various members of Girlschool since the early 1990s.

Kelly Johnson who was a founding member of the band and had performed two tours of duty (1978-1984 and 1993-1999) passed away on the 15th July 2000 at the age of 49 after a six year battle against Spinal Cancer. She remained with the band and toured incessantly until 1999, when she was diagnosed with cancer. After she left the band Johnson remained associated with Girlschool, playing the occasional gig and instructing her substitute Jackie Chambers.

Hit and Run - The Original

1981 was a good year for Girlschool despite still being treated by large numbers of the press as somewhat of a novelty factor for being an All-Female Rock Band. In February they had released alongside Motörhead the brilliant St. Valentines Day Massacre EP under the banner HeadGirl which reached the dizzy heights of #5 on the UK Singles Chart. Then in April, prior to the release of the second album, they appeared on Top of the Pops performing Hit and Run which peaked just outside of the Top 30 (#32). They also got some TV attention from ITV's Rockstage when they were filmed along with Motörhead at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham was broadcast (the show had actually been filmed in August 1980). I could only find Furniture Fire/Race With The Devil and Demolition/Emergency on You Tube (I'm not totally sure if there is any other footage or whether this was the only part of their set that was broadcast).

The success of the Hit and Run album led to more opportuites for the band to play at Festivals and also play guest slots alongside Rush and Black Sabbath. Their Hit and Run Tour ended with a Headline performance on the opening Friday of the 21st Reading Rock Festival (Gillan headlined Saturday and The Kinks on the Sunday).

The band were sounding so good and had come along way since the first time that I saw them in 1978 at the Harlsden Roxy supporting Sham 69!

 Hit and Run - Girlschool

Bronze 

Produced by Vic Maile

Released April 1981

UK Chart #5

We'll let Lemmy have the last word as to whether Girlschool were good or not: In an inteview for Crypt Magazine David Necro said "With women rockers, you've always championed them. Like Girlschool, L7, Joan Jett...". Lemmy's response was so typical Lemmy:

"They go through a lot of shit, just 'cause they're chicks. It ain't right. Girlschool, when they started out, guys would say about Kelly Johnson (original lead guitarist) "she's really good for a girl." I'd say, "she's better than you mother******!" Because she was a great guitar player."

 

You don't want to argue with Lemmy now, do you?

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The Rebel Kind - Girls With Guitars 3 - Various Artists (2014)

The third and final one (for the moment, let's hope there is more to come!) in the Girls With Guitar Series from Ace Records is The Rebel Kind - Girls With Guitars 3.

You can get more information about the album and how to get it FROM HERE. 

One of things that strikes me when listening to this series of albums is that there were some pretty talented ladies out there who packed a whole lot of sassiness but for various reasons they rarely seem to have been given the credit they actually deserve.

I can remember reading Joan Jett one time talking about how bad The Runaways were treated when they first started making waves and how no one took them seriously because they were Girls! In the male domintated world of Rock and Roll it always seems that we are taken by surprise when a group of ladies come together, have talent and make amazing music! But it shouldn't amaze us at all.

All-Girl groups were not just a thing of the 1960's. Some of the very first All-Girl bands go right back to the 1920s and 1930s with All-Girl Jazz Bands: The Blue Belles, The Parisian Redheads (later The Bricktops), Lil-Hardin's All-Girl Band, The Ingenues, The Harlem Playgirls, Phil Spitalny's Musical Sweethearts and Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators were popular.

Into the 1960s there were many more than the ones that have been spotlighted in this series.

I think the series highlighted that there were some great bands paving the way for the likes of The Runaways, The Go-Go's, The Bangles, The Bodysnatchers, The The Belle Stars, The Like, The Slits, Dolly Mixture, The Innocents, The Raincoats, Mo-dettes, Girlschool, The Donnas, L7, Rude Girl, Babes In Toyland, The Be Good Tanyas, Dixie Chicks, Girl in a Coma, Halo Friendlies, Indigo Girls, Kleenex, Shonen Knife, Sleater-Kinney, The Spazzys, We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It, and Maid of Ace to name but a few!

The Rebel Kind - Girls With Guitars 3 - Various Artists

Ace Records

Released March 2014

Tracklist

1 Colette & The Bandits - A Ladies' Man
2 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - Please, Please
3 The Girls - Chico's Girl
4 The Bootles - I'll Let You Hold My Hand
5 Jean and the Statesides - Putty in Your Hands
6 The Debutantes - A New Love Today
7 The Beas - International Girl
8 Dana Gillespie - You Just Gotta Know My Mind
9 Mousie & The Traps - How About You
10 The Debutantes - Love Is Strange
11 Lydia Marcelle - The Girl He Needs
12 Brenda Lee - What'd I Say
13 The Honeybeats - Dicci come fini
14 Gail Harris & The Fabulous Wailers - I Idolize You
15 The Chymes - He's Not There Anymore
16 Goldie and the Gingerbreads - Can't You Hear My Heartbeat
17 Jackie DeShannon - Dream Boy
18 The Chicks - The Rebel Kind
19 The Del Monas - Peter Gunn Locomotion
20 Pinky Chicks - Soba ni ite
21 The Debutantes - Strong Foundation
22 Ace of Cups - Stones
23 The Honeybeats - Fa come vuoi
24 The Chantals - Peruvian Wedding Song

Destroy That Boy! More Girls With Guitars - Various Artists (2009)

The second release from Ace Records spotlighting Girls With Guitars was Destroy That Boy! More Girls With Guitars.

From Ace Records' Website Description:
“Destroy That Boy!”, the sequel to 2004’s “Girls With Guitars”, delves into the world of garage femmes and all-girl bands in a quest to prove that females of the species do indeed rock, roll and even snarl. In the post-Beatles beat boom, many an impressionable lass was inspired to take guitar in hand and toe the line with their male counterparts, with at least 160 touring female bands in the USA alone. A select few hit the recording studio to leave their aural mark on the decade, from which Ace has melded the cream of crop with some solo sisters to create another healthy 24-track dose of girl garage goodness.

For more information and how you can get the album GO HERE.

I do love this one, Raylene & The Blue Angels doing Shakin' All Over is magnificent and probably one of the first times I had ever heard it sung by a female. Add to that She Trinity doing He Fought The Law, again probably the first time I had ever heard it performed with a female voice. There's some British interest on the album as well as two amazing tunes from Swedish Starlet Ann-Margret who was more famous in film and on TV than as a singer, though she had actually released a fair few singles and albums in her time! 

Destroy That Boy! More Girls With Guitars - Various Artists

Ace Records

Released March 2009

Tracklist
1. I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy-THE WHAT FOUR
2. You Don't Love Me-THE STARLETS
3. Shakin' All Over-RAYLENE & THE BLUE ANGELS
4. He Fought The Law-SHE TRINITY
5. No-TONI MCCANN
6. He's Something Else-THE LIVERBIRDS
7. Hear You Talking-BEVERLEY JONES WITH THE PRESTONS
8. Shake A Tail Feather-THE DEBUTANTES
9. The Beatles Are In Town-THE FONDETTES
10. Don't You Think It's Fine-PROJECT X
11. It's A Nice World To Visit (But Not To Live In)-ANN-MARGRET
12. Hold On-SHARON TANDY
13. You Just Gotta Know My Mind-KAREN VERROS
14. You Turned My Head Around-ANN-MARGRET
15. I've Been Workin' On You-THE FEMININE COMPLEX
16. Here I Am In Love Again-THE GIRLS
17. Tell Me-THE TERMITES
18. Talking About You-THE LIVERBIRDS
19. Baby, I Dig Love-THE WHAT FOUR
20. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone-THE PIVOTS
21. He s About A Mover-THE LIVERBIRDS
22. That's My Guy-CHERYLL & PAM
23. Fraternity, USA-THE LADY BUGS
24. Climb That Tree-SHE TRINITY

Girls With Guitars - Various Artists (2004)

I'm going to be posting a few of these spoltlighting some great sets that Ace Records have released down through the years spotlighting the Ladies, or better still, the Girls With Guitars.

Hard to believe that this one is twelve years old but there you go, time moves quickly!

I seem to recall that prior to getting a copy of the album that I had actually not heard of any of these Girl Bands at all! I think it just shows you that there is a goldmine of quality music out there that has been longing for an ear to listen to it.

Ace Records had infact released the first Girls With Guitars album way back in 1989 on Vinyl with just 12 Tracks so these CD releases are absolutely brilliant uncovering many more great songs that have gone unheard for many years.

So this was the first set to be released on CD back in 2004 and it contains 24 songs.

For more information on the album and where to get hold of a copy GO HERE!

 

Girls With Guitars - Various Artists

Ace Records

Released April 2004

Tracklist

1. MY BABY - The Girls
2. I'D RATHER FIGHT THAN SWITCH - The Tomboys
3. GET AWAY FROM ME - The Angels
4. BOY, WHAT'LL YOU DO THEN - Denise & Company
5. CHOO CHOO FIE FI FUM - Goldie & the Gingerbreads
6. ONLY SEVENTEEN - The Beattle-ettes
7. DO THE DOG - Sugar & The Spices
8. I GOT A GUY - Kathy Lynn & the Playboys
9. DOUBLE SHOT (OF MY BABY'S LOVE) - The Goodees
10. I COULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT MY BABY - The Pandoras
11. THEY ARE THE LONELY - Pat Powdrill & the Powerdrills
12. HEART - The 2 Of Clubs
13. HELP ME BOY - The Daughters Of Eve
14. SKINNY VINNIE - Goldie & the Gingerbreads
15. HULLY GULLY GUITAR - The Percells
16. ROCK CITY - Kathy Lynn & the Playboys
17. STICKS AND STONES - Lonnie Mack & the Charmaines
18. TAKE MY HAND - Goldie & the Gingerbreads
19. BOYS CAN BE MEAN - Sugar & The Spices
20. GUITARS, GUITARS, GUITARS - Al Casey with The K-C-Ettes
21. V.I.P. - Goldie & the Gingerbreads
22. COME ON ALONG - The Hairem
23. MY LOVE - The Girls
24. OUTTA REACH - She

Let The Day Begin...Let The Day Start!: Day 245 - Eric Church (2)

Mr Misunderstood - Eric Church

EMI Nashville

Produced by Jay Joyce

Released 3rd November 2015

US Chart #2

US Country Chart #2

Tracklist

A1     Mr. Misunderstood    
A2     Mistress Named Music    
A3     Chattanooga Lucy
A4     Mixed Drinks About Feelings
A5     Knives Of New Orleans    
B1     Round Here Buzz    
B2     Kill A Word
B3     Holdin' My Own    
B4     Record Year    
B5     Three Year Old

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Way back in May this year I spotlighted Eric Church's Caught In The Act Live album.

In the latest issue of Classic Rock there's a pretty cool interview with Eric Church as the mnagazine shines a light on the world of Country Rock:

“We’ve always been on the edges of country,” considers Church. “But it’s funny, because when Chief happened, we became arguably one of the biggest acts in the format. And I think we kinda pulled to the middle. I’m real uncomfortable there. To me, it’s always been about trying to get out on the edges. And to stay out there.”

He certainly doesn't do things by the "rules" either as his latest album, Mr Misunderstood, that was released last year just seemed to appear with very little fanfare, no major promotional gimmicks or even advertising! The album just kind of crept out, first releasing it to his fan club and then the day after releasing it on iTunes. The album you would have assumed didn't go down too well with so little promotion, but it made it to #2 on both the Billboard 200 Chart and the Top Country Chart.

I'm guessing that he has every right to do things the way he wants to do having begun life in Nashville writing hit songs for other people before his own career finally took off in 2006 with Sinners Like Me. But it was his 2011 album Chief that blew the roof off as it hit the top spot not just on the Country Chart but also the Billboard 200.

Reviewing Mr Misunderstood for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Erik Ernst writes, "Church is country music's weird kid, who bucked the industry's expectations to chase cookie-cutter radio hits and defiantly forged his voice as an innovative, authentic songwriter."

I would totally agree with that assessment!

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