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Eric Church read an article about himself, wrote a song about it and performed it the next night at Red Rocks

Jul 21, 2025, 4:32 PM | Updated: Jul 22, 2025, 9:56 am

For songwriters, inspiration can come from the oddest places. Take Eric Church, for example.

He was on the third night of his three night mini-residency at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Wednesday night when he prefaced a brand new song with the story of how it came about. “I read an article. I never read anything. And I read this article today, it’s a site I really like, and the article said, ‘Eric Church played Red Rocks last night, and the old Eric Church, the Chief, was back. It was 2012 all over again.’ And I’m a songwriter. So I wrote this song today. Why not, right?”

He then launched into the never-before-played song “New Old Me.”

See Eric Church explain the inspiration for “New Old Me,” and hear the song, below…

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Eric Church read an article about himself, wrote a song about it and performed it the next night at Red Rocks