Tyler Childers "Stark Ravin' Spring Tour" w/ Ona
This is a Standing Room Only show - NO SEATS
Co-promoted with Across-The-Way Productions (FloydFest)
Devils Backbone Brewing Company Presents … the Official Tyler Childers Pre-Party, featuring FloydFest artists Morgan Wade & the Stepbrothers with Vintage Pistol!
FREE Event / Sunday, April 28, 2019 / 4-8 p.m. / Location: Behind Harvester Performance Center
We’ll be serving stellar brews from Devils Backbone Brewing Company … with tasty local food available for purchase onsite.
Across-the-Way Productions/FloydFest will be at the show to boogie AND to bestow a FloydFest 19~Voyage Home (July 24-28, 2019) ticket on a lucky attendee! Plus, the first 100 people to attendee receive a FREE FloydFest stainless steel pint cup.
***This is a free event, open to the public. You do not need a Tyler Childers ticket to attend the pre-party, all are welcome. Come and enjoy!***
Tyler Childers
Like many great Southern storytellers, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers has fallen in love with a place. The people, landmarks and legendary moments from his childhood home of Lawrence County, Kentucky, populate the 10 songs in his formidable debut, Purgatory, an album that’s simultaneously modern and as ancient as the Appalachian Mountains in which events unfold.
The album, co-produced by Grammy Award winners Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson, is a semiautobiographical sketch of Childers’ growth from wayward youth to happily married man, told in the tradition of a Southern gothic novel with a classic noir antihero who may just be irredeemable. Purgatory is a chiaroscuro painting with darkness framing light in high relief. There’s catharsis and redemption. Sin and temptation. Murder and deceit. Demons and angels. Moonshine and cocaine. So much moonshine and cocaine. All played out on the large, colorful canvas of Eastern Kentucky.
Childers had been searching for a certain sound for his debut album for years as he honed his craft, and was finding it elusive when his friend, drummer Miles Miller, introduced him to Simpson, the Grammy Award-winning musician and fellow Kentuckian. Childers sent Simpson a group of his songs, then went to visit him in Nashville.
“And he said, ‘There’s this sound. I know what you’re trying to get at, the mountain sound,’” Childers recalled. “’So I asked, ‘What are you doing?’”
Intrigued, Simpson enlisted the aid of Ferguson, the Grammy Award winning sound engineer. They assembled a band that included multi-instrumentalists Stuart Duncan, Michael J. Henderson and Russ Pahl, bassist Michael Bub and Miller on drums, of course, and helped Childers make a debut album of consequence that announces an authentic new voice.
“I was writing an album about being in the mountains,” Childers said. “I wanted it to have that gritty mountain sound. But at the same time, I wanted a more modern version of it that a younger generation can listen to—the people I grew up with, something I’d want to listen to.”
Ona
Ona is an indie-rock band comprised of longtime friends Brad Goodall (keys), Bradley Jenkins (vocals/guitar), Zach Johnston (bass), Max Nolte (drums), and Zack Owens (guitar).
The band formed in late 2013 and are based in Huntington, WV. Ona's debut record 'American Fiction' reached critical success appearing on NPR best of lists, SIRIUS Radio airplay, and a spot on nationally syndicated radio program Mountain Stage.
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