Tyler Childers: Country Squire [HICKMAN HOLLER/RCA]

Why you'll love it

On Hickman Holler, the label Childers runs himself, with RCA, and it comes with a download card. Sturgill Simpson and David R. Ferguson produced it at the Butcher Shoppe in Nashville, and it went to number one on Billboard's Top Country Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts. 'All Your'n' earned a Grammy nomination for Best Country Solo Performance.

This edition

• Includes a download card
• Nine songs, five on side A and four on side B

About the album

Childers grew up in Lawrence County, Kentucky, the son of a coal industry worker and a nurse, learned to sing in the church choir and started writing songs at about 13. His 2017 breakthrough Purgatory, also produced by Simpson, won him an Americana Music Award, and the follow-up came with an RCA deal that let him keep the copyright through Hickman Holler and keep creative control.

Country Squire is honky-tonk and neotraditional country at its most generous, nine songs in thirty-five minutes, from the title track and 'Bus Route' to 'House Fire,' which arrived with its video the day the album was announced, and the love song 'All Your'n.' It sold 32,000 equivalent units in its first week, and Pitchfork gave it a 7.8. Thirty-five minutes and not a wasted one, which is more than we can say for most staff meetings.

Tracklist

Listen

On Hickman Holler Records and RCA, first out August 2, 2019.