Latest Release
- JUN 28, 2024
- 1 Song
- Purgatory · 2017
- Country Squire · 2019
- Purgatory · 2017
- Rustin' In The Rain · 2023
- Tyler Childers OurVinyl Sessions - Single · 2017
- Purgatory · 2017
- Country Squire · 2019
- Tyler Childers OurVinyl Sessions - Single · 2015
- Live on Red Barn Radio I & II · 2018
- Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? · 2022
Essential Albums
- On his stunning debut, Tyler Childers embraces the same cosmic country sound of coproducer Sturgill Simpson, mixing dusky twang and badass attitude. The songs of the Kentucky singer/songwriter are filled with seriously flawed characters. On “Banded Clovis” the jailed narrator recalls killing a friend while under the influence of “pills and the powder” over an Indian arrowhead they’d found together. On the bluegrass-steeped title track he pleads with his lover for help, certain she’s the only thing standing between him and hell.
Artist Playlists
- This Kentucky singer makes country music that feels lived in.
- The Kentucky songwriter’s tour is back stateside. Explore the full set list.
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
Radio Shows
- Childers and guests go behind the scenes of his ambitious new triple LP.
More To Hear
- DJ Charlie Brown Superstar brings the funk to country music.
- Explore the sonics of Tyler's album with engineer Kenny Miles.
- Get to know Tyler's touring band and long-time buds.
- New music from Tyler Childers' 'Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?'
More To See
About Tyler Childers
“I sat around a lot with my dad—around hunting clubs, and outside of church and barbershops—listening to fellas older than me tell tall tales and flat-out lies,” Tyler Childers told Apple Music in 2019. “I guess some of that rubbed off on me.” Such understatement is characteristic for the singer, who was born in rural Lancaster County, KY, in 1991. His songwriting captures the deceptive complexity of life in Appalachia, setting his words to an old-school mixture of ’70s honky-tonk, bluegrass, and folk music. The tunes address timeless concerns and modern realities, unsentimentally illustrating how the devastation of poverty can lead to substance abuse or even murder, yet each narrative contains an irrepressible sense of morality regardless of the destruction. He cut his first album, the stripped-down Bottles and Bibles, when he was just 20; the opening track’s narrator’s rapid fall from grace set a compassionate standard that blossomed on his Sturgill Simpson-produced breakthrough album Purgatory in 2017. His fighting spirit has always been complemented with a keen sense of righteousness, a quality made explicit on his surprise 2020 album Long Violent History, a mostly instrumental bluegrass collection that closed with a song expressing empathy for the struggles of the unnamed Black Lives Matter, deftly citing the brutality visited upon Appalachia’s poverty-stricken as a “stand in their shoes” device.
- HOMETOWN
- Lawrence County, KY, United States
- BORN
- June 21, 1991
- GENRE
- Country