Salt Lake City || UT
Energy Solutions Arena
Eric Church // The Chief
PLOT TWIST:
Just the man & his guitar.
If you keep up with Eric Church on social media or really
any country website, you might have seen that recently at his Salt Lake City, Utah
tour stop on the sold out Outsiders World Tour… well, long story short; he
ended up doing the entire show, BY HIMSELF! The band and crew were sick with
the stomach flu. (More info about that on his website)
The show can’t end because the band is sick, right? Most
artists would cancel their show or reschedule, not the chief.
He was NOT going to let anyone go home and have no Saturday
night plans.
Eric’s passion and dedication shined tonight & he played
his show ACOUSTIC.
(Seriously, now he needs to make an acoustic album)
The amount of respect I have for artists
is high, and now it is even higher for Eric.
Eric started out the night with his current hit (and my
favorite Talladega, he also explained what was happening, continued to play
some of his biggest hits like Creepin’, Drink In My Hand, and These Boots, and
of course boots were flyin’ onto the small stage that had been set up, unlike
the huge stage he usually plays on. He did play some songs from The Outsiders
album but not much; I’m assuming maybe because the songs have props (I have
seen this show once last summer) // with it being JUST the chief, and one or
two guitar players that were feeling “okay”…. it wasn’t possible for that to
happen. He then closed the set with Springsteen, as the crowd went absolutely W
I L D, and yes we of course helped him out.
Nonetheless, Church was absolutely breathtaking and
PHENOMINAL, he made everyone swoon with his hit “Like A Wrecking Ball” from The
Outsiders album // such an intimate song, and even better acoustic!
Now what do you wear to an Eric Church concert? BLACK.
I paired some black riding boots with black leggings &
paired a Levi vest with my Trouble Maker tank.
[Insert “drink in my hand” lyric here]
This is definitely a more “raw & shortened” concert
review; there are no words for how amazing this acoustic concert was, I have
been watching out for articles about this show, unless you were there you will
never understand how amazing that arena was to him flying solo, however, on
Memorial Day when Eric Church comes back to Utah (He is honoring our tickets
from Saturday night for a show on Memorial Day with the band! How amazing!?) I
will have a more detailed and more intense review for you.
However, here is Springsteen and the closing statement, from my YouTube channel.
