"Talladega" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Eric Church. It is the fourth single from his fourth studio album, The Outsiders. It was released to radio on September 15, 2014.The song is about a male sharing memories from a trip made to Talladega Superspeedway with friends after his senior year in high school. According to Church, the song was written and partially recorded on July 7, 2012, while he was on tour.It was later recorded with his band in Nashville for release on The Outsiders. Church took inspiration from seeing a NASCAR race on television, but both he and co-writer Luke Laird said that the song is not about racing. Rather, Church said that the race and the song represents "that experience, whatever that is: the experience with the person next to you, and knowing that that’s probably a finite time in your life. It’s not gonna last forever."
"Talladega" debuted on the Country Digital Songs chart at No. 29, and Hot Country Songs at No. 41, with 14,000 sold when the album The Outsiders was released in February 2014. After the song was released as a single in September, it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 90 for the charted dated November 8, 2014. The song has sold 347,000 copies in the US as of January 2015.
Eric Church is an American country music singer-songwriter been released a total of four studio albums for that label. His style has been described as country rock, outlaw country, and southern rock.
