Eric Church didn’t start wearing sunglasses onstage to make a fashion statement. Quote, “I wear contacts and my eyes don’t do real well with lubrication, but we would play all these bars and clubs . . .
“The . . . lights would bake my contacts and they’d fall off. So I ended up being blind on stage. Someone suggested glasses and it worked . . . it ended up being a thing.”
It’s to the point now that he doesn’t feel right if he’s onstage WITHOUT his shades. But he doesn’t wear them 24-7, just when he’s performing.
(On a related note, Eric just announced a residency at his new bar Chief’s in Nashville. Here’s the announcement. And you can grab more info here.)
