Country maverick Eric Church lost his opening slot on The T.G. Sheppard Tour after a raucous performance at a Branson retirement home on Tuesday night.
Sheppard personally delivered the bad news to Church around 10pm as the two singers were lugging their sound equipment back to their shared “tour bus,” a 1989 Mazda Miata parked behind the venue. The termination came after weeks of tension caused by Church’s tendency to extend his contractually-mandated thirty-minute opening set into a loose two-hour jam session replete with unseemly words like “hell” and “damn.”
Church was mired in similar controversy back in 2006, when disappointingly mundane rebel behavior cost him an opening slot on a Rascal Flatts tour.
2004 Nashville Star winner Brad Cotter is slated to join Sheppard for the final leg of the tour. Church plans to rent a 1984 Pontiac Fiero and trail Sheppard’s Miata, busking outside the venues at the remaining stops. Contacted for comment, he offered: “I guess T.G. just couldn’t handle me. I like to rock out, hoss.”
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Oooooh that Eric Church – he’s such a lil rascal!! At a retirement home, no less! Funny one!
The Church Choir will be very unhappy with this one. :)
Eric Church is a fake wannabe. Talent barely makes it palatable, behavior pushes it to unacceptable. Not a rebel, a pretender. Keep the drink in your hand and try to look the part, you can fool some of the people all the time and most of the people some of the time, but Eric, you can’t fool us fans who have been around the rebels of country for decades now and know the real and know the counterfeit.
As much as I love to hate on Eric Church, I do think he has released some decent singles to radio lately. He’s getting better than that “Love Your Love The Most” nonsense. But the whole “outlaw” bit is unpalatable. I don’t care if its genuine or if he’s a pretend-outlaw. Either way, its annoying and its been played out for a long time. Still, Eric has released a few half decent singles to radio lately, so I give him credit. If he’d develop a more attractive persona, I’d like him.
Now, there are some people who do not like Rascal Flatts. I don’t really like their music, but I will always have a soft spot for them in my hearts because they fired Eric Church. Gotta love them for that.