Eric Church + Jelly Roll & Paul Cauthen at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

Eric Church’s most recent album, his Heart & Soul three-part project, is available everywhere now. The project features his latest Gold-certified No. 1 “Hell of a View” & recent Top 5 hit “Heart On Fire” as well as brand-new single “Doing Life With Me,” impacting radio now.

He recently wrapped his The Gather Again Tour, visiting arenas for an in-the-round show on the Billboard Music Awards’ Top Country Tour, in addition to a recent headlining spot alongside George Strait & Metallica during the ATLive festival at Mercedes-Benz Stadium & his own headlining stadium shows at Milwaukee’s American Family Field & Minneapolis’s U.S. Bank Stadium. During 2019’s Double Down Tour, he played nights of two unique shows in each market sans opening act. The tour featured a stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where he broke the venue’s concert attendance record with more than 56,000 fans in attendance.

A seven-time ACM Award winner, four-time CMA Award winner & 10-time GRAMMY nominee, Church has amassed a passionate fanbase known as the Church Choir as well as a critically acclaimed catalog of music. His previous project, the Gold-certified Desperate Man, earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album. Prior releases include the Platinum-certified Sinners Like Me, Carolina & Mr. Misunderstood, the Double-Platinum certified The Outsiders & the 3x Platinum-certified Chief, as well as 30 Gold, Platinum & multi-Platinum certified singles.

Outright genre-bending singer/songwriter Jelly Roll has quietly been building a remarkable career, under the radar and on his own terms. Since his days selling his mixtapes out of his car, he has constantly been releasing new music, touring relentlessly, consistently topping various charts, engaging a rabid fanbase & creating videos that have amassed more than 2 Billion views on YouTube. He pairs deeply personal lyrics with music that blends Old-school Rap, Classic Rock, Country and Soul to create music that is therapeutic, raw and tackles the heaviness in life.

His 2020 single “Save Me” — a confessional, vulnerable expression of self-doubt set the stage for his new season of life and took him to new heights, with more than 171 million views on YouTube and Platinum certification from the RIAA. Born and raised in Nashville’s Antioch neighborhood, the former addict and drug dealer released his album Ballads of the Broken in 2021, ahead of his sold-out hometown show at the famous Ryman Auditorium, which sold out in under an hour. Now after a history-making “breakthrough year” (American Songwriter), having just sold-out Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, releasing the riveting anthem “Need A Favor” from his debut country album WHITSITT CHAPEL, plus earning his first 3 CMT Award wins, the reigning No. 1 of Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart for 25 weeks is well on his way to mainstream, multi-genre stardom.

Paul Cauthen kept the fires of old-fashioned outlaw country burning in the 2010s, spiking his sinewy swagger with an undercurrent of gospel balanced by a hefty dose of midnight sleaze. Nicknamed “Big Velvet” due to his smooth baritone, Cauthen may have been resolutely secular, but he telegraphed those spiritual connections in the very title of his 2016 breakthrough, My Gospel, not to mention the testifying implied by the name of its 2018 successor, Have Mercy. Unlike such peers as Sturgill Simpson, Cauthen didn’t bend his country toward psychedelic rock, nor was he a savvy Nashville operator along the lines of Chris Stapleton. He was a Texas outsider, cutting his teeth in the early 2010s with Sons of Fathers before launching his own solo career with My Gospel, an acclaimed debut that showcased his idiosyncratic take on traditional country. Cauthen broadened his horizons on Room 41, the 2019 sophomore set that contained “Cocaine Country Dancing,” a disco-fied single that brought him a wider audience and set him on a path to the satirical “Country as Fuck,” the lead song from Country Coming Down.

A native of East Texas, Paul Cauthen was raised in Tyler, Texas, learning how to sing and play at the hands of his grandfather, a songwriter from Lubbock who associated with that town’s local legends Buddy Holly & the Crickets. As he grew, he was steeped in classic country and rock & roll, but he found his way toward trouble as his adolescence gave way to young adulthood. After a brief stint in jail for marijuana possession and getting kicked out of college, Cauthen turned to songwriting to stabilize himself.

While residing in San Marcos, Texas in 2010, Cauthen ran into David Beck, a singer/songwriter who shared a similar taste and sensibility. They quickly formed a duo called Beck & Cauthen, switching their name to Sons of Fathers after alternative rocker Beck sent a cease-and-desist letter. Relocating to Austin, Sons of Fathers recorded a debut album with producer Lloyd Maines, which appeared in 2011. Sons of Fathers earned good reviews and climbed into Billboard’s Americana Top Ten with both their debut and Burning Days, the sophomore set that appeared in 2013. The success started to chafe at Cauthen and he quit the group following a performance where the duo opened for Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.

Following the split, Cauthen roamed Texas, eventually settling in the Dallas area as he slowly started a solo career, gravitating toward gutsy, soulful country as he wrote and recorded the material featured on My Gospel. Appearing in late 2016 on Lightning Rod Records, the Beau Bedford-produced My Gospel peaked at 50 on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and he worked the album throughout 2017, building up a fan base.

Cauthen recorded Have Mercy — a seven-song collection of originals that was somewhere between an album and EP — with Bedford at Modern Electric Studios in Dallas, supported by the collective of DFW musicians calling themselves the Texas Gentlemen. Have Mercy appeared in June of 2018. Around this time, Cauthen endured a difficult breakup with his girlfriend and moved out of his home to live out of Dallas hotel. Written during this tumultuous, alcohol-fueled period, his next album was titled Room 41 after his temporary home.

Room 41 featured “Cocaine Country Dancing,” a country-disco stomper that steadily racked up plays on streaming services. In 2020, Cauthen teamed up with Orville Peck as the Unrighteous Brothers for a pair of Righteous Brothers covers (“Unchained Melody,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.” He also released the solo singles “America” and “Bones” that year. Cauthen used the glitzy sound of “Cocaine Country Dancing” as a touchstone for “Country as Fuck,” a glitzy sideswipe at bro country that provided the first taste of his third album, Country Coming Down.