Eric Church (title of Desperate Man) OC: …of the album. 1:23
“So, I guess the reason it’s called Desperate Man is from a point in time in the process where I became desperate to find an album. We approached this album just like we approach every album. We have a creative group of people. My manager, John Peets, my wife Katherine, Arthur Buenahora, Jay Joyce, the producer, and myself, and we go in and take a batch of songs that we’ve been working on and they rate them 1-4 stars. And the four stars songs across the board, I get two votes even though they’ll deny that, the maximum amount is basically 20 points that you can get. So, the songs that we started with for Desperate Man were the 20-point songs. The cannot miss, these are the ones and after three songs in the studio, none of those three songs are on the album. We were lost, in my opinion. I don’t know, I think there was a lot going on there. I had an interesting year personally, and, just in the studio, that safe-what we thought was gonna be the album wasn’t working with the creative energy. Two different things were going on. So, what’s interesting about Desperate Man was when I went into the album making process, that song was not written. Like a lot of them on the record, they had not been created yet. I think that desperation of trying to find what this album is, led itself so that song and let it to the title of the album.”