“I wrote ‘Jersey Giant’ over ten years ago and only performed it for a short period of time,” said Childers. “I was pleased with how it turned out structurally (it even has a bridge, which is rare for me), but I was over performing it pretty fast. I reckon that’s just how...
Tyler Childers’Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? was named album of the year at the 2023AmericanaHonors &Awards, which were held Wednesday (Sept. 20) at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The self-produced album consists of three discs, each containing different remixes...
Sure, maybe Tyler Childers doesn’t have the same songs within him that will resonate like all of thosePurgatorytracks did, and expecting him to is the unreasonable expectations an audience can put on him,notwanting him to remain exclusively country, and being incensed by disc three. Tyler...
Childers lent his voice to “Greatest Story Ever Told”, the lead track from Ace. Bob Weir & Wolf Bros, Tyler Childers –“Greatest Story Ever Told” – 4/2/22 [Video: Matt Frazier] Bidding farewell (for now), Childers left the extended ensemble to “Black-Throated Wind”, which ...
This week's crop of songs includes work from The Oak Ridge Boys with Alabama, as well as new music from Parker Ryan, Cooper Alan and Mitchell Tenpenny.
Childers’ comments were in contrast to those of Irma Thomas, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who said she traveled eight hours to attend the ceremony and graciously called her honor “the surprise of a lifetime.” She showed similar poise when a PA malfunction spoiled her...
music, and the people who enjoy my music don’t tend to either. Thank God for people like Tyler Childers, Tennessee Jet, Cody Jinks, Sunny Sweeney, Ward Davis, and Sturgill Simpson who are recovering the roots of country music without slavishly copying one person. I’ll throw my hat in ...