Eric Church announces limited edition ’61 Days in Church’ vinyl box set

15-VINYL BOX SET INCLUDES A ROAD CASE, TOUR BOOK AND TOUR POSTER

When Eric Church announced 61 Days in Church, a collection of live recordings currently streaming on Apple Music, fans demanded physical releases of the music. On October 27th, demand will be met as 61 Days in Church,ย limited-release, will be available as a massive 15 LP box set, along with a commemorative tour book and an original poster encased in a custom road case.

Initial shipments will be on December 15th with fans receiving a road case box with the book, poster and the first three LPโ€™s, which will include music from the first 12 shows of Churchโ€™s 2017 Holdinโ€™ My Own Tour. The remaining 12 pieces of vinyl will be shipped out once a month starting in January of 2018, signing purchasers up for a Church โ€œrecord clubโ€ for the year. Church Choir members, the country superstar’s die-hard fan club, will exclusively have the option to add-on a t-shirt, at no additional charge with their order. The box set is $445 plus shipping and will be released exclusively direct to consumers viaย 61daysinchurch.com.

Additionally, the Church Choir gets the exclusive first look at the music video for Churchโ€™s fourth single from his album Mr. Misunderstood, โ€œRound Here Buzz.” Fan club members will receive an email with details on how to view. The video will premiere worldwide on Vevo Tuesday, October 24th.

The music video for โ€œRound Here Buzzโ€ features lead Mickey Smay, the teenager from the โ€œMr. Misunderstoodโ€ music video as well as Churchโ€™s โ€œRecord Year.โ€ The music video was directed by Reid Long who received an ACM Award for Video of the Year for โ€œMr. Misunderstood.โ€

The 61 Days in Church collection was recorded on Churchโ€™s 2017 Holdinโ€™ My Own Tour, which was a record-breaking five-month, two-set show where Church played more than 200 hours of musicโ€“foregoing an opening actโ€”across 61 stops. The 61 Days in Church compilation will hold songs from each city that include a variety of catalogue cuts and singles as well as cover songs inspired by each tour stop. Church has already released some of these covers on the 61 Days in Church including a Memphis medley that combines Marc Cohnโ€™s โ€œWalking in Memphisโ€ with Bobby Bareโ€™s โ€œHow I Got to Memphisโ€ and a cover of โ€œScrew You, Weโ€™re From Texasโ€ featuring the songโ€™s originator, Ray Wylie Hubbard.

With 60 songs already released via streaming from the 61 Days in Church, releases in batches of 30 songs will continue, exclusively with Apple Music for a two-week window before going wide to all streaming platforms, until the full 100+ song project is complete.

Churchโ€™s Holdinโ€™ My Own Tour sold 930,000 tickets at the end of its run notching his as Pollstarโ€™s top music tour in the first quarter of 2017, but as Dave Brooks of Billboard Magazine noted, โ€œFans will remember that tour by another metric: the marathon three-and-a-half hours Church played nightly as he crisscrossed the United States and Canada.โ€

Church will also release an exclusive 7″ live vinyl for Record Store Day’s Black Friday promotion on November 24th. The release will contain the first song from the Holdin’ My Own Tour, “Mistress Named Music” — recorded in Lincoln, NE on January 13, 2017 — and the very last song from the same tour, “Holdin’ My Own” — recorded in Nashville on May 27, 2017.

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Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn