Chase Rice Shares Tracks From Chief’s Acoustic Shows On ‘Live From Chief’s’
Chase Rice surprised fans with the release of a special three-song EP, Live From Chief’s.
Captured during his recent acoustic shows at Chief’s on Broadway in Nashville on Feb. 13-14, the project highlights Rice’s unfiltered artistry in a way that fans rarely get to experience at larger arena shows. The project opens with standout covers of Eric Church’s “Carolina” (one of the first songs Rice was inspired to learn to play on guitar during his college years at UNC), and George Strait’s iconic rodeo hit “I Can Still Make Cheyenne,” which itself inspired the EP’s third song.
The previously unreleased “Cowboy Goodbye,” a yearning song co-written by Rice with Oscar Charles and Foy Vance during a recent post-Red Rocks retreat in Colorado, reflects on the sacrifices that come with the pursuit of music and serves as a pivotal moment for his next studio album Eldora, expected later this year.
“I love my life; I love my job; I love what I get to do for a living – but I’ve given up a lot to do it,” Rice shares in the live recording’s introduction, reflecting on the personal parallels between the life of a touring musician and that of a true cowboy. “I don’t have a family yet – that’s the goal – but that’s one of the main things that I’ve given up to do this thing… Since I was a little kid, I always wore the cowboy boots, I always wore the cowboy hat and the cowboy way of life was always just kind of in my mind.”
