Country superstar Eric Church is giving fans along the Gulf Coast a front-row seat from home with the release of Evangeline vs. The Machine Comes Alive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) via MCA. The 19-track live album accompanies the IMAX® exclusive concert film, now in limited theatrical release. The engagement began Feb. 11, with an additional showing tomorrow, Feb. 14. Tickets are available at IMAX.com/EricChurch.
Recorded live at Nashville’s Pinnacle—the first live album ever captured at the venue: Church performs his critically acclaimed eighth studio album Evangeline vs. The Machine front-to-back, before moving into reimagined fan favorites. The performance features a six-piece band, four-piece horns, four-piece strings, an eight-piece choir, and standout vocalist Joanna Cotten. Highlights include a live rendition of “Springsteen” that’s already turning heads online.
“The IMAX film freezes a moment in time,” Church told CBS Mornings. “I’m going to get older; those fans are going to get older, but we froze that moment in time forever musically…Concerts are a little different that way, and that’s why the IMAX film mattered.”
Church’s Free the Machine Tour continues to draw rave reviews nationwide. Relive Magazine called the D.C. show “less like a concert and more like a film unfolding in real time,” while The Music Universe added, “if you can see only one country music concert in 2026, it needs to be the Free the Machine Tour…there will not be a bigger, fuller all-live sound on the road this year.”
Across the country, critics are taking note. The Minnesota Star Tribune hailed Church as “country music’s most courageous and unpredictable superstar – both musically and culturally,” and the Green Bay Press Gazette called the performance “so nuanced, so sneaky sophisticated, so good that the sum of its parts was as great as the whole…an artist who increasingly transcends the boundaries of today’s country to be one of music’s more electrifying live acts – period.” Cleveland.com summed it up simply: “Country music’s iconoclast did it again.”
For Gulf Coast fans who love authentic country music, storytelling, and live energy, Evangeline vs. The Machine Comes Alive offers a chance to experience Church’s powerhouse show anywhere. The IMAX film and live album bring the sound, the soul, and the stagecraft of one of country music’s most electrifying performers straight to your home.