With the year winding down, Eric Church has a long list ready for when it’s his turn to share what he’s most thankful for at the dinner table this Thanksgiving. At the very top of that list is the fact that this is his first holiday with his brand new baby boy, Boone McCoy, who was born in October.
Cue up the X Files theme! Another remarkable crop circle formation has sprung up - or been layed down - in Wiltshire, England.
The aliens must be getting tired of our inability to understand their coded messages because this one is a very clear image of the head of one of them (the aliens) smoking a pipe. (Although I'm still not sure what the message is. Maybe they don't have the ability to grow pipe tobacco where they come from?)
But wait! This story gets even better! The name of the person who first reported the formation is Weirdsma! (You can't make up something like that!)
With his first two albums, 2006′s ‘Sinners Like Me’ and 2009′s ‘Carolina,’ Eric Church enjoyed steadily, albeit modestly, increasing success — so you can imagine that a few industry eyebrows were raised when his latest release, ‘Chief,’ debuted at number one.
To celebrate Church’s first chart-topper, Billboard devoted a recent feature to analyzing his sales spike — and interviewing industry insiders who shared their theories about how it happened.
George Strait makes the list twice with Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye from 1989 and Troubador from 2008. It sure doesn't seem like that album's been around for four years!
Read on to see what happened with Eric Church, Garth Brooks, Diamond Rio and more Today In Country Music History, April 1st, 2011.
