Eric Church‘s live album, Caught in the Act, will be released on Tuesday (April 9th). The 17-track compilation includes several selections from his platinum-selling CMA Album of the Year, as well as hits and concert favorites from his previous two releases, Sinners Like Me and Carolina.

When asked the question why this was the right time to release a live album, the North Carolina native says,”We wanted to do it our whole career. We wanted to capture what happens live. But again, I think I did not want it to be a live record in this big place and all the people. I wanted to pay homage to where we came from. And we tried to find the smallest places. It just happened to be that the Tivoli was the right place, right location, right theatre, right environment to record it…It was just trying to find the right size to feel that intimacy, that connection that really turned into whatever we’ve become. That’s what that’s about. It’s the energy exchange. And I just didn’t want to get too far removed from it. I didn’t want to look back two or three years from now and be so far removed from our smaller venue days that we lost touch with that hunger, that we lost touch with that passion.”

You can catch Eric live when he plays at Country Thunder West April 12th in Florence, Arizona.