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Timothy Tyler Childers (/tʃɪldərz/ CHILL-dərz; born June 21, 1991) is an American country singer-songwriter. His music has been described as a mix of neotraditional country, bluegrass, folk, and honky-tonk. His breakthrough studio album, Purgatory (2017), was named one of the best albums of the year by several publications, and earned Childers an Americana Music Award. He subsequently received Grammy Award nominations for his albums Long Violent History (2020) and Rustin' in the Rain (2023) and the singles "All Your'n" (2019) and "In Your Love" (2023), the latter of which was his first top 10 hit on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
Tyler Childers was born and grew up in Lawrence County, Kentucky. His father worked in the coal industry and his mother is a nurse. He was born with clubfoot and had to undergo surgeries to remedy the condition when he was 18 months old, and again when he was aged five. He had learned to sing in church as a member of the choir. Childers started to play guitar and write songs at approximately 13 years of age. He attended Lawrence County High School (LCHS) and transferred to Paintsville High School, Johnson County where he graduated in 2009. Fellow country musicians from Johnson County include Chris Stapleton (Staffordsville), Loretta Lynn (Butcher Hollow), and Crystal Gayle; Sturgill Simpson, a known acquaintance of Childers, is from Jackson, Kentucky in nearby Breathitt County, Kentucky.
Childers studied for a semester at Western Kentucky University and then enrolled at Bluegrass Community and Technical College for a few semesters. He dropped out of college and worked odd jobs for some time while pursuing a music career.
Childers began performing in Lexington, Kentucky, and Huntington, West Virginia. In 2011, when he was 19, Childers released his first album, Bottles and Bibles. In 2012, he uploaded an acoustic recording of "Jersey Giant" to SoundCloud with vocals from Senora May. He released two EPs recorded in 2013 at Red Barn Radio, a radio show from Lexington. The two EPs were later released as one recording called Live on Red Barn Radio I & II after the success of his album Purgatory; they reached No. 5 on Heatseekers Albums. He performed with his backing band, The Food Stamps.
Childers' first success was with his 2017 album Purgatory. It was produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson and recorded at The Butcher Shoppe in Nashville. Simpson also played guitar and sang backing vocals on the album; Miles Miller is on drums, Stuart Duncan on fiddle and Russ Pahl played other instruments. 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. In September 2018, Childers won Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Honors & Awards; he gave an acceptance speech noted for its criticism of the Americana genre label saying after the awarder mispronounced his last name 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."
Country Squire, a second album under the Hickman Holler label and Childers' third overall, was released on August 2, 2019. The album was also produced by Simpson and Ferguson. The video of the lead single from the album House Fire was released on May 16, 2019. "All Your'n", the second single from the album, was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.
On September 18, 2020, Childers released Long Violent History, an album consisting mainly of traditional fiddle tracks. The album closes with the title track, which discusses racism, civil unrest, and police brutality. He released a video message to accompany the song; in it he discussed his intention for the album in general and the title track in particular, calling for empathy above all else. He said the profits from the album would support underserved communities in the Appalachian region, through Childers' Hickman Holler Appalachian Relief Fund.
On September 30, 2022, Childers released a triple album Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?. The album is divided into three parts: Hallelujah, Jubilee, and Joyful Noise; eight songs are presented in three ways (Jubilee versions for example have additional instruments added to the Hallelujah version). The album charted at No. 8, which is Childers' first top 10 album on Billboard 200, based on 27,000 units earned in the first week. In that same year, he gave his song "Jersey Giant" to Elle King, which she included in her album Come Get Your Wife.
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Timothy Tyler Childers (/tʃɪldərz/ CHILL-dərz; born June 21, 1991) is an American country singer-songwriter. His music has been described as a mix of neotraditional country, bluegrass, folk, and honky-tonk. His breakthrough studio album, Purgatory (2017), was named one of the best albums of the year by several publications, and earned Childers an Americana Music Award. He subsequently received Grammy Award nominations for his albums Long Violent History (2020) and Rustin' in the Rain (2023) and the singles "All Your'n" (2019) and "In Your Love" (2023), the latter of which was his first top 10 hit on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
Tyler Childers was born and grew up in Lawrence County, Kentucky. His father worked in the coal industry and his mother is a nurse. He was born with clubfoot and had to undergo surgeries to remedy the condition when he was 18 months old, and again when he was aged five. He had learned to sing in church as a member of the choir. Childers started to play guitar and write songs at approximately 13 years of age. He attended Lawrence County High School (LCHS) and transferred to Paintsville High School, Johnson County where he graduated in 2009. Fellow country musicians from Johnson County include Chris Stapleton (Staffordsville), Loretta Lynn (Butcher Hollow), and Crystal Gayle; Sturgill Simpson, a known acquaintance of Childers, is from Jackson, Kentucky in nearby Breathitt County, Kentucky.
Childers studied for a semester at Western Kentucky University and then enrolled at Bluegrass Community and Technical College for a few semesters. He dropped out of college and worked odd jobs for some time while pursuing a music career.
Childers began performing in Lexington, Kentucky, and Huntington, West Virginia. In 2011, when he was 19, Childers released his first album, Bottles and Bibles. In 2012, he uploaded an acoustic recording of "Jersey Giant" to SoundCloud with vocals from Senora May. He released two EPs recorded in 2013 at Red Barn Radio, a radio show from Lexington. The two EPs were later released as one recording called Live on Red Barn Radio I & II after the success of his album Purgatory; they reached No. 5 on Heatseekers Albums. He performed with his backing band, The Food Stamps.
Childers' first success was with his 2017 album Purgatory. It was produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson and recorded at The Butcher Shoppe in Nashville. Simpson also played guitar and sang backing vocals on the album; Miles Miller is on drums, Stuart Duncan on fiddle and Russ Pahl played other instruments. 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. In September 2018, Childers won Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Honors & Awards; he gave an acceptance speech noted for its criticism of the Americana genre label saying after the awarder mispronounced his last name 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."
Country Squire, a second album under the Hickman Holler label and Childers' third overall, was released on August 2, 2019. The album was also produced by Simpson and Ferguson. The video of the lead single from the album House Fire was released on May 16, 2019. "All Your'n", the second single from the album, was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.
On September 18, 2020, Childers released Long Violent History, an album consisting mainly of traditional fiddle tracks. The album closes with the title track, which discusses racism, civil unrest, and police brutality. He released a video message to accompany the song; in it he discussed his intention for the album in general and the title track in particular, calling for empathy above all else. He said the profits from the album would support underserved communities in the Appalachian region, through Childers' Hickman Holler Appalachian Relief Fund.
On September 30, 2022, Childers released a triple album Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?. The album is divided into three parts: Hallelujah, Jubilee, and Joyful Noise; eight songs are presented in three ways (Jubilee versions for example have additional instruments added to the Hallelujah version). The album charted at No. 8, which is Childers' first top 10 album on Billboard 200, based on 27,000 units earned in the first week. In that same year, he gave his song "Jersey Giant" to Elle King, which she included in her album Come Get Your Wife.
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