Mr. Misunderstood
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| Studio album by Eric Church | ||||||||||
| Released | November 3, 2015 | |||||||||
| Recorded | September–October 2015 St. Charles Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) |
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| Length | 38:41 | |||||||||
| Label | EMI Nashville | |||||||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 84/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| AbsolutePunk | 8.0/10 |
| Nash Country Weekly | A |
| PopMatters |   |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Spin | 7/10 |
Mr. Misunderstood is the fifth studio album from American country music artist Eric Church. EMI Records Nashville released the album on November 3, 2015 to his fan club, before being released on iTunes the following day. Church worked with long-time music producer Jay Joyce for the production of the album.
Church started his songwriting of the album on his guitar, nicknamed "Butter Bean" by his son, in the latter part of the summer. Within just twenty days, he had twenty songs written for the album, when he went into the studio, where twenty days later after some recording sessions, the ten tracks that comprise this album were finished. The recording sessions for this album took place in mid-to-late-September to early-October 2015. Church got Jay Joyce to produce the album, while his label EMI Records Nashville was the imprint used. This album was produced at St. Charles Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. The song, "Mixed Drinks about Feelings", featured blues and blue-eyed soul performer, Susan Tedeschi. Its song, "Chattanooga Lucy", featured country artist, Joanna Cotten, while the song, "Kill a Word", has two songstress featured, in Kentuckian, Andrea Davidson, and Americana singer, Rhiannon Giddens. Church put on the cover, McKinley James "Mickey" Smay, who is a 14-year old in the ninth grade at a high school located in Rochester, New York, where he also makes an appearance on the music video for this song, while his father is a rock music drummer, Jason Smay.
This album was released to his fan club members, known as The Church Choir, where it is a paid membership, on November 3, 2015, via email, and some select fans and radio-stations got copies of the album on compact disc and vinyl. His music club fans posted snippets of the songs on YouTube, where they were quickly removed for copyright infringement. It came out on Apple Inc.'s iTunes, the subsequent day, where it was distributed exclusively through them. Church performed, "Mr. Misunderstood", at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards, where the news of the new album became evident.
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