Tyler Childers

Timothy Tyler Childers (born June 21, 1991) is an American singer and songwriter. His music is a mix of country, bluegrass and folk. He released his breakthrough album Purgatory in August 2017. Childers released his third and most recent LP, Country Squire, via his own Hickman Holler Records, under exclusive license to RCA Records in August 2019.

Tyler Childers
Background information
Birth nameTimothy Tyler Childers
Born (1991-06-21) June 21, 1991
Lawrence County, Kentucky
OriginPaintsville, Kentucky
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active2010–present
LabelsHickman Holler
Websitetylerchildersmusic.com

Early life

Tyler Childers was born and raised in Lawrence County, Kentucky.[1] His father worked in the coal industry and his mother is a nurse.[2] He learned to sing in church where he sang in the church choir.[3] He started to play guitar and write songs when he was around 13.[4] He attended Paintsville High School in nearby Paintsville, Kentucky, and graduated in 2009.[5] Fellow country musicians Chris Stapleton (Staffordsville) and Loretta Lynn (Van Lear) also hail from areas around Paintsville. He studied for a semester at Western Kentucky University, and enrolled at Bluegrass Community and Technical College for a few semesters.[6] He dropped out of college and did odd jobs for some time while pursuing a music career.[7]

Career

Childers began performing in Lexington, Kentucky and Huntington, West Virginia.[8] In 2011, when he was 19, Childers released his first album, Bottles And Bibles. He has also released two EPs recorded in 2013 at Red Barn Radio, a radio show from Lexington.[3] The two EPs were later released as one after the success of his album Purgatory, and reached No. 5 on Heatseekers Albums.[9] He performed with a backing band called The Food Stamps.[10]

He had his first success with Purgatory, a breakthrough album released on August 4, 2017.[11][12] The album was produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson and recorded at The Butcher Shoppe in Nashville.[13] Simpson also played guitar and sang backing vocals on the album, with Miles Miller on drums, Stuart Duncan on fiddle and Russ Paul on other instruments.[14] It debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart, No. 17 on the Country albums chart and No. 4 on the Americana/Folk albums chart.[4] In September 2018, Childers won Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Honors & Awards, where he gave an acceptance speech noted for its criticism of the Americana genre label, saying that "as a man who identifies as a country music singer, I feel Americana ain't no part of nothing and is a distraction from the issues that we're facing on a bigger level as country music singers. It kind of feels like purgatory."[15]

Country Squire, a second album under the Hickman Holler label, and Childers' third overall, was released on August 2, 2019, after being announced in May 2019. This album was again produced by Simpson and Ferguson.[16] The video of the lead single from the album "House Fire" was also released on May 16, 2019.[17] "All Your'n," the second single from the album, was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.[18]

Musical style

Childers' music is influenced by his home state of Kentucky and its connection to country music and bluegrass.[7] He often writes about coal mining, which was his father's occupation, and its effects. Rebecca Bengal, writing for The Guardian, described Childers' songs as a "counternarrative to the outsiders who seek to perpetuate stereotypes of backwardness and poverty."[19] Childers emphasizes lyrical content in songs, comparing the songwriting process to telling short stories.[20]

The Food Stamps band members

Current members

Discography

Studio albums
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
US
[24]		 US
Country
[25]		 US
Indie
[26]		 US
Folk
[27]		 CAN
[28]		 UK Country
[29]
Bottles and Bibles[30] — — — — — —
Purgatory
  • Release date: August 4, 2017
  • Label: Hickman Holler
  • Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl
 120 12 3 4 — —
Country Squire
  • Release date: August 2, 2019
  • Label: Hickman Holler
  • Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl
 12 1 — 1 86 1[32]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

EPs
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
Heat
[34]		 US
Indie
[26]
Live on Red Barn Radio[35]
  • Release date: October 24, 2013
  • Label: Tyler Childers & the Highwall
 — —
Live on Red Barn Radio II[36]
  • Release date: April 24, 2014
  • Label: Tyler Childers & the Highwall
 — —
Live on Red Barn Radio I & II
(rerelease of 2 EPs as one)
  • Release date: June 29, 2018
  • Label: Hickman Holler
  • Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl
 5 14
Reimagined[37]
  • Release date: October 18, 2019
  • Label: Hickman Holler
 — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles
Year Title Peak chart positions Sales Album
US Country
[38]		 US
AAA
[39]
2017 "Lady May"[40] — — Purgatory
"Whitehouse Road"[40] — —
"Universal Sound"[42] — —
2019 "House Fire"[43] — 40 Country Squire
"All Your'n"[44] 46 16
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos
Year Video Director(s) Ref.
2017 "Whitehouse Road" Brainwrap Productions [46]
2019 "House Fire" [43]
2019 "All Your'n" Matt Stawski [47]
2020 "Country Squire" Tony Moore [48]

Awards and nominations
Award YearCategoryNominee/WorkResultRef.
Americana Music Honors & Awards 2018Emerging Artist of the YearTyler ChildersWon[15]
Grammy Awards 2020 Best Country Solo Performance "All Your'n" Nominated [49]
gollark: True, true. I do think a focus on some specific stuff like networking would also be helpful.
gollark: People are going to *use computers*, which is why I think we should have teaching on stuff like solving random problems instead.
gollark: *Reading manuals.*
gollark: I think it would be much more useful to actually teach basic computer use. How to solve basic problems (application of the search engine). What all the various cables are for. Basic computer maintenence.
gollark: They also gave people custom hardware (micro:bits), which probably isn't great either since people won't realize you can just do programming stuff on a regular home computer or laptop to automate annoying tasks and whatnot.

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