Country music superstar, and North Carolina native, released a new song to help provide relief for victims of Hurricane Helene.
This new song was set to be released with other new music sometime next year. However, after Helene caused such massive devastation in Eric’s home state, he worked hard to get it ready to release now. Eric is signing over all of his publishing royalties for “Darkest Hour (Helene Edit)” to the people of North Carolina.
In a press release about the song, Eric had this to say,
“From Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, Upstate South Carolina, parts of Georgia and even Florida which took a direct hit, there are so many places that were impacted. Specifically in the area that I’m from, the mountains of Western North Carolina were devastated. There are places that are just biblically gone. These are our family members, they’re our friends, they’re our neighbors – and they’re in dire need of help. And I’ve been in the studio for a while, trying some different things and exploring creativity. I had this song that I’d written, and the line that struck me in light of the recent devastation was ‘I’ll come running,’ because there are a lot of people out there right now who are in their darkest hour and they need people to come running. We were going to wait to release music until next year, but it just didn’t feel right to wait with this song. Sometimes you give songs their moment and sometimes they find their own moment.
This song, ‘Darkest Hour,’ was the best way I could think to try to help. We’ve been helping with boots on the ground efforts, but this is something that will live beyond just the immediate recovery. This is not a quick thing to fix, so hopefully ‘Darkest Hour’ will be able to contribute to that for a long time to come. This song goes to my home, North Carolina, now and forever.”
In addition to this song helping in his home state, Eric’s Chief Cares Fund will be directing all its charitable efforts to all the communities who were directly impacted by the destruction from Hurricane Helene from Appalachia to the Gulf.
You can help by donating to CHIEF CARES HERE, the AMERICAN RED CROSS HERE or by texting HELENE to 90999.
By: Buck Stevens
