No one was more surprised that Eric Church opened the recent 50th anniversary ACM awards broadcast with “Pledge Allegiance to the Hag” — a nearly decade-old cut from his first album — than Eric Church.

“I said to Mike Dungan [the Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group], ‘If I told you…

Source: RollingStone
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