Eric Church wowed fans at the Red Rock Amphitheatre in Colorado with a dazzling cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”.
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Church prefaced the performance by warning the audience he had not properly prepared for what was about to happen: “I’m gonna try something here. This could go bad… [the song was] something I put on my crew about an hour ago.”
If the crowd’s reaction is anything to go by, Church had nothing to worry about. The intimate performance of “Hallelujah” was stripped back to just a man, his guitar and a cheering audience.
Turns out, the song has a special meaning to the country singer and the famous venue: “Last time I was here — this is a true story — I played here, and we were leaving, and I was playing some music in my headphones and I was leaving here, and we pulled out, and the light was still on the rocks, like it is right now, and this song was playing in my headphones.”
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Take a listen to Church’s rendition of the 1984 classic by Canadian Leonard Cohen below.
