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Eric Church had quite the Halloween costume back in his college days. We’re inching closer and closer to the end of October, which means we have undoubtedly entered into “Spooky Season.” I don’t know when it was officially coined that, but it seems like it really caught on in the last decade or so. And if you ask me, I love the tagline for this time of the year. Halloween has to be the most underrated holiday of them all. There’s nothing like having fun sized candy all over the place at all times, watching scary movies to really ring in the fright-fueled holiday, and dressing up and pretending you are someone (or something) you aren’t Sometimes, you don’t pick the costume… the costume picks you. That’s exactly what happened to country music star Eric Church back in the day. He fondly remembers that a last-second Halloween costume quickly became one of his most memorable… and actually one of his favorites. The Chief WKML 95.7 that he and some friends that he went to Appalachian State with were headed to a Halloween event in Chapel Hill (App State alums aren’t gonna like that) when they realized none of them had costumes. So they found a costume spot that was on the way and improvised: “My favorite Halloween costume really came, I remember when I got a little older, my first year of college, there’s this thing they do every year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Halloween on Franklin Street. We drove down from Boone, North Carolina. I had a bunch of friends that went to the University of North Carolina, and we didn’t have costumes and didn’t realize until we were on the way that we had to have costumes. So, we stopped at a costume place in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s Halloween, so there’s a run on everything, and couldn’t find anything. We ended up finding this hole-in-the-wall place, but they had the full costume, Sesame Street outfits. The real deal. The real ones (with) feathers and fur. We were Elmo, Cookie Monster, and I was Big Bird.” I wouldn’t have ever thought of Eric Church as the “Big Bird” type, but hey… clearly he and his friends thought the group costume was a good idea, so they went with it. And like he said, these weren’t just run-of-the-mill, cheap costumes from Spirit Halloween. These were some authentic, crafted costumes Eric and his friends were wearing. The way Church describes it… the Big Bird costume was probably a little too intricate and complicated for a night out on the town with some friends, which only adds to the lore of the Chief’s favorite Halloween costume: “It’s about 7-foot-4, and you looked out of the body, and then you had these straps that went on since the head was a lot higher. There’s a lot of beer involved on Franklin Street, so we get down there, and as the night went on, my straps broke, so the head would pivot. And so, I would be walking one way, and the head would be facing the other, and it just became this funny… I didn’t know the head was on backward. I had no idea. I see out of the body, so I’m just kinda walking around, and people were talking to my ass-end. The whole time people’d come up and start talking and go, ‘Hey, turn around.’ And I’d turn around, and they’d go, ‘No turnaround.’ It was a mess. That year, there was no other Big Bird on Franklin Street.” If only there were a picture of Eric Church rocking a head-turned-the-wrong-way Big Bird costume out there. I’m sure there is… but it’s evidently a tough photo to track down. Eric, if you are reading this, give the world what it has no idea it needed: photographic evidence of you rocking a 7-foot tall Big Bird costume. The post Eric Church Recalls His All-Time Favorite Halloween Costume From His First Year Of College: “The Real Deal… Feathers & Fur” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

He’s come a long way – both personally and professionally. Most people are at least familiar with Jelly Roll‘s story. The country star, whose real name is Jason DeFord, spent much of his early life in and out of the prison system while battling with mental health and addiction issues. But it was finding out that he became a father – when a prison guard knocked on his jail cell – that convinced Jelly Roll to get his life together: “I’m sitting in there, and that guard knocks on my door May 22nd, 2008… He goes ‘you had a kid today,’ and he walked away. I still get emotional. It’s like a Damascus road experience in the Bible. I immediately…was like I’ve got to do something. I’ve got to quit this sh*t. I’ve got to figure it out.” Well he decided to try to make a career in the music industry, which led to him playing gigs for a few hundred bucks while living out of his car. And that’s when he met his future wife, Bunnie Xo – who at the time was working as a high-end escort in Vegas. The couple married in 2016, long before Jelly Roll became a household name, and she’s been by his side through his meteoric rise, not only serving as a mother to his now-16 year old daughter Bailee Ann but also building her own media empire with her Dumb Blonde podcast, all while trying to start her own family with Jelly Roll as she’s opened up about when discussing her fertility journey. Of course it hasn’t been easy for the couple. As Bunnie has discussed in the past, the two separated not long after getting married when she discovered that Jelly Roll was having an affair with an ex of his: “We got married in 2016. The affair was started with an ex in 2017, and then I think I found out about it early on in 2018.” The couple obviously worked things out, and Bunnie has even said she’s grateful for the experience because it’s made them a stronger couple: “It happened for a reason and I’m so thankful that it did because it just made us the best of friends,” But Jelly Roll admits that was one of the darkest times of his adult life. During an appearance this week on the Human School Podcast with Miles Adcox, Jelly Roll opened up on the affair, saying that it led him to question whether he would ever be able to clean up his act: “I don’t talk about this publicly at all, but one of the worst moments of my adulthood was when I had an affair on my wife. Because it was the first time that I was like, ‘I really can’t get this right at all.’ Like, I know I’m in love with this woman. It was just such a – like it just really, really, really blew me back.” And while he doesn’t agree that he’s thankful that the affair happened, he says that the process of repairing their relationship has been a special part of their story: “And I did a lot of work to repair that relationship, you know what I mean? Like the repair has been special, man, and we’re stronger than we could have ever been. I wish our story would have went in the way that it never had an affair, and I’m in no way glad it happened, but man I’m proud of who we are today… I truly am.” Jelly Roll says that the affair happened while he was hanging with the wrong kind of friends, but that he’s since changed his mindset when it comes to the people he wants to surround himself with: “I looked back at even that moment of my life and it was like, I was hanging around a bunch of people that were cheating on their wives… I used to be proud of longstanding friendships just because they had a number attached to them. Horrible humans, but I would just be proud to say a dude’s been with me 12 years… I want to only be around people that I want to be like.” That’s a good rule for all of us to live by. The post Jelly Roll Says That Cheating On His Wife Bunnie Xo Was “One Of The Worst Moments” Of His Adult Life first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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