Solid advice.
It seems like everybody who visits Nashville these days is here for a bachelor or bachelorette party. The bachelor parties are a little harder to spot because they aren’t as coordinated as the bachelorette parties, but walk down Broadway in downtown Nashville and you’ll see group after group of girls wearing matching shirts and sashes as they celebrate their upcoming weddings.
But how often do the newlyweds get advice from one of the biggest stars in country music?
Eric Church was in Nashville this weekend celebrating the release of his latest album, Evangeline vs. The Machine, with two incredible sold-out shows at The Pinnacle. (You can read more about those shows here).
And after the show on Saturday, he decided to keep the party going – where else? – at his downtown Nashville bar, Chief’s.
Church opened his own spot on Broadway last April, and since then has been a regular fixture at Chief’s, from his To Beat The Devil residency to popping in when he has friends playing on stage in the two-story music venue, the Neon Steeple.
When it comes to artists who frequent their own bars, Church is one of the few who actually spend time at their Broadway venue. He designed the place and has his touches on every inch of the venue. And unlike many of the other artist-branded bars on Broadway, Church actually owns his bar alongside his friend Ben Weprin with AJ Capital Partners, so it’s not really a surprise that Chief and his group migrated to 200 Broadway after the show on Saturday.
Church was joined by a whole host of friends, and even hopped up on stage with his longtime backup singer Joanna Cotten to perform an incredible duet of “Over When It’s Over.”
@justine2726 Only in Nashville! After playing the second of 2 sold out shows in Nashville last night, @Eric Church & Joanna Cotten made a surprise appearance at Chief’s and hopped up onstage for an impromptu performance! 😍😎🤘✨ fyp countrymusic nashville broadway ericchurch joannacotten overwhenitsover chiefs chiefsonbroadway
Well just like the rest of us, even Eric Church can’t avoid the bachelor and bachelorette parties on Broadway. And one of those bachelor parties was at Chief’s celebrating the weekend, and told Church that he was getting married.
And the Chief had some tongue-in-cheek advice for him:
“Don’t do it.”
@jordancharlow Celebrating your bachelor weekend in Nashville at Chief’s with Eric Church himself > 🤠😂 @Eric Church #nashville #ericchurch #chiefsonbroadway #bachelorweekend #fyp
Classic.
Of course Church was just joking, and has one of the longer-lasting marriages in country music after marrying his wife back in 2008.
Chief’s wife, Katherine Blasingame, was a music publisher, and was trying to hook him up to write with a songwriter that she represented. But Church and Katherine hit it off, and are now married with two children of their own, Tennessee Hawkins (“Hawk”) Church and Boone McCoy Church.
Church has also credited his wife and her experience in the music industry as someone who has helped him when it comes to deciding which songs he should and shouldn’t record, and for their wedding he performed the song “You Make It Look So Easy,” a song he wrote for his wife and later recorded for his Carolina album.
Naturally, Church’s marriage to Katherine is a success story in an industry where so many don’t work out. I have a feeling this guy at Chief’s would be well-served by following Church’s example (if not his advice) once he ties the knot himself. He clearly knows what he’s doing.
