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Carolina by Eric Church

Carolina

Release Date: 3/24/2009

Recording Date: 3/2009

Tracks: 12

Label: Capitol Nashville

Type: CD,LP

Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Country-Rock, Contemporary Country, United States of America

Album Tracks (12)

Song Title
Length
1.
Ain't Killed Me Yet
03:22
2.
Lotta Boot Left to Fill
03:24
3.
Young and Wild
03:15
4.
Where She Told Me to Go
04:48
5.
Longer Gone
03:08
6.
Love Your Love the Most
02:50
7.
Smoke a Little Smoke
03:11
8.
Without You Here
02:42
9.
You Make It Look So Easy
04:15
10.
Carolina
04:39
11.
Hell on the Heart
02:44
12.
Those I've Loved
05:03

What the Critics Say

Country music outlaw Eric Church blasted onto the scene in 2006 with his jaw-dropping debut effort, Sinners Like Me. The North Carolina native quickly earned a dedicated following and a reputation for putting on a killer live show. Carolina, the singer/songwriter's 2009 sophomore release, is as raw and real as they come out of Nashville -- where style is often passed off as substance. Like Sinners Like Me, Carolina is a from-the-gut collection filled to the brim with traditionally rooted country music that is masterfully tempered with Southern baked rock. From the floor rattling fury of "Ain't Killed Me Yet" to the heart tugging honesty of "Those I've Loved" Church soars higher here than he did on his critically praised debut. The characters who live and breathe between the chords and melodies in Church's songs are as authentic as the well-worn frets on his acoustic guitar. The guy on the chugging "Lotta Boot Left to Fill," who claims Johnny Cash would have "whipped" the ass of those country posers who insist on name-checking the late "Man In Black" in their songs, bears a strong resemblance to Church himself. Loud guitars, gritty vocals, and more soul than a Sunday morning sermon best sums up Carolina. ~ Todd Sterling, Rovi

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