Eric Church (born Kenneth Eric Church May 3, 1977 in North Carolina) is a country music artist. Church's first appearance on the national music scene came in 2005, as a co-writer on Terri Clark's single "The World Needs a Drink", a #26 on the Billboard country music charts Signed to Capitol Records in 2006, Church released his debut album Sinners Like Me that year; this album produced three Top 20 country hits in "How 'Bout You", "Two Pink Lines" and "Guys Like Me", as well as a #51 in its title track. His fifth single, "His Kind of Money (My Kind of Love)", was released to radio in April 2008 as the lead-off to his upcoming second album, entitled Carolina. Eric Church grew up in Granite Falls, North Carolina. At age thirteen, he bought a guitar and began writing songs of his own. By his junior year of high school, he had found a gig at a local bar. Eventually, Church was adding original songs into the set mix, in addition to producing albums of his own material. For two years, his band played often in bars and restaurants throughout North Carolina.