Country superstar Eric Church’s new album is called “Evangeline vs. the Machine,” and if you know his iconoclastic ways - iconoclastic at least by the standards of country, and probably beyond that, too - then you know which side in that titular equation he’ll be favoring.

Read our review of Eric Church's 'Evangeline vs. the Machine,' his new album that incorporates a choir, strings, and horns.

Even as he's signed to one of Nashville's biggest labels, Eric Church has amassed more than a little experience over the past nearly two decades in pushing back against the typical Music Row way of doing things,