Tyler Childers Proclaims New Album, Shares Video for New Track: Watch

Tyler Childers has introduced his sixth studio album; Rustin’ in the Rain arrives September 8 by way of Hickman Holler/RCA. The brand new LP follows Childers’ 2022 triple album Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?, which he recorded together with his longtime band the Food Stamps. At this time (July 27), Childers has launched Rustin’ within the Rain’s lead single “In Your Love,” together with an emotional music video directed by Bryan Schlam. Test it out under.

“This can be a assortment of songs I playfully pieced collectively as if I used to be pitching a bunch of songs to Elvis,” Childers mentioned of his new album in a press launch. He continued: “Some covers, one co-write, and a few I even wrote in my finest (horrible) Elvis impersonation, as I labored across the farm and kicked round the home. I hope you get pleasure from listening to this album as a lot as I loved creating it. Thanks. Thanks very a lot.”

The video for “In Your Love” options inventive route from Silas House, who wrote the script for the visible. Home is a New York Instances bestselling creator, the present Poet Laureate of Kentucky (Childers’ house state), and recipient of the 2022 Duggins Prize—the most important award for LGBTQ writers within the nation. Jason Kyle Howard additionally labored with Home on the story, which follows two males, performed by Colton Haynes and James Scully, as they navigate their life as lovers in Nineteen Fifties rural Appalachia.

“As a homosexual teenager who liked nation music, I may have by no means imagined seeing myself in a video,” Home mentioned of the clip for “In Your Love.” “That visibility issues. There have all the time been LGBTQ folks in rural locations and eventually we’re seeing that portrayed in a rustic music video.” Home added:

Tyler and I each felt the eye to element about rural life was essential, so we made certain that the home and the folks seemed sensible for the time interval as an alternative of the stereotypes of nation those that have change into so ingrained within the public consciousness. We used our circle of relatives photos as references. We needed to inform as advanced a narrative as we may in 4 minutes, not solely a couple of homosexual couple, but in addition about rural folks. We needed to indicate their pleasure and their sorrow—all of the issues that make up a posh life. Too typically simplistic notions are pushed about each rural and LGBTQ folks, so we did the whole lot we may to make this story as wealthy and layered as potential.