LCM #SongOfTheDay ‘The Snake’ - Eric Church

It’s dark and broody, it’s bluesy, rootsy and southern gothic….and we love it. Eric’s brilliant new single ‘The Snake’ is one of our favourite tracks from his recently released new sixth studio album ‘Desperate Man’.

Eric has long maintained that putting music into specific genres is an outmoded concept, and ‘Desperate Man’ (11 tracks tellingly overseen by regular producer Jay Joyce) is further proof of EC’s broad range of influences, from rock and metal acts through to Hank Williams Jr. and Ray Wylie Hubbard, the latter getting a co-writing credit on the new album’s lead single and title track.

Given Eric’s revered status and record-breaking stats, ‘Desperate Man’ could have been a collection of slickly-crafted stadium anthems, but instead of going down that pyro-laced path, the end result, very much a body of work, spotlights Eric as a thoughtful artist fuelled by emotion, feel and the desire to tell a story; a family man cast in the great American song-writing tradition, bringing to mind names like Springsteen, Seger and Jackson Browne; a musician whose substantial success hasn’t detracted from his ability to both talk from the heart and shoot from the hip. In short, an album for our (desperate) times."