Eric Church’s Son Road Warrior

Eric Church’s son Boone McCoy celebrated his first birthday back in October.  Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton asked Eric for an update on Boone: “He’s walking around.  He still needs furniture walking.  He’ll take off from one and walk to the other, he’s still got that thing where he doesn’t trust it.  But I think he’s figured out it’s faster for him to crawl.  So if he has to get from point A to B, he’ll drop down and crawl  He’s faster crawling.” Eric has been on the road all year with his Blood Sweat & Beers tour, and he told Lon that he travels with his wife and son:  “We have him on tour with us, and the only thing that’s interesting is he goes to bed at midnight and gets up at 10AM, because that’s what works for us.  He sleeps in a bunk right below us, and that’s the only thing that works.  So at some point, we’ll reverse the damage we’ve done.  But he’s really only missed two runs his entire life.  My crew got him an enclosed trampoline that he jumps in.  It’s a big playground out there.  So we keep him out there, and he’s adjusted real well.”

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So what adjustments have you made in your bus? “A ton, obvious stuff is light sockets, but we had to pad everything, cause you’re going down the road, even we fall down a lot, so he’s either going to have the best or worst balance ever, cause he’s lived on this moving thing his entire life.”

 

Eric has been on the road this fall with Kip Moore and Justin Moore.  Justin and his wife have two little daughters, and Eric told Lon that his son Boone has been playing with Justin’s youngest daughter Kennedy: “His youngest is the same age as my son, so they’ve been out playing.  I know Boone, he’s got a bad habit, if he’s got anything in his hands, if you have a ball, bad parenting on my part, I’ve taught him how to get the ball from me.  If I’m trying to guard it, you get it.  Very important even at one year old.  So they’re playing together this past run, and Justin’s daughter’s got this little ball, and Boone just walks up and konged her, tattoo’d her, and grabbed the ball, and was like, ‘Ball!’  So I had to go through the whole, ‘Time out!’  First of all, Justin, sorry, my son just knocked your daughter down, but we had a parenting conversation there.  My wife Katherine was mortified, and I told her, ‘Let’s be honest, he did get the ball. Let’s talk about what’s important.  In about ten or twelve years we’re gonna enjoy that, so he got the ball!  No referees around, go for the ball!”

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