Morgan Wallen Never Listened to Country Music Until…

Morgan Wallen never listened to country music, until he came across… Eric Church.

Fitting, am I right?

In a preview on his website, Morgan Wallen shares his early musical days. “I grew up in a very rural Southern Baptist church, singing gospel and bluegrass. When I was 5 years old, I asked for a violin for Christmas, and I’d play piano growing up, but I wasn’t allowed to listen to secular music when I was a kid,”

Wallen got his first taste of non-Christian music when he bought a Breaking Benjamin CD. Still, he didn’t become a country music fan until discovering the work of Eric Church.

“What struck me most was how I could just picture all his lyrics,” Wallen wrote, adding, “I mean, I knew every bit of his first three records. I could sing them all.”

Fast forward years later, the two are friends! In fact, the “Sand In My Boots” singer has said he wrote the I’m the Problem track “Number 3 and Number 7” specifically for Church. That marked the second Wallen-Church collab, following 2023’s “Man Made a Bar.”

Crazy how the world works.