20 Questions: Eric Church
February 2025
THE COUNTRY SUPERSTAR HAS BEEN KNOCKED AROUND PRETTY GOOD, BUT HE’S TOUGHER THAN THE REST.
Q1: Last time Playboy talked to you was 2013, after your third album, Chief, became the biggest country album of the year. How did you handle that sudden success?
CHURCH: I didn’t handle it well. It was an overnight kind of thing. We’d started to have a little success with “Smoke a Little Smoke,” but we were still edgy and...
