Country Squire out AUGUST 2 on HICKMAN HOLLER RECORDS/RCA RECORDS
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CRITICAL PRAISE FOR Country Squire OUT AUGUST 2 ON HICKMAN HOLLER RECORDS/RCA RECORDS photo credit: Emma Delevante “Tyler Childers’ rise, from logging millions “Childers remains a force to be “‘House Fire’ is a lusty do- of Spotify streams to consistent sold-out reckoned with. A wrecking ball si-do. It’ll have you slapping tour dates around the country, has been combination of incredibly perceptive your knees, stomping your feet one of the genre’s biggest success stories.” songwriting backed by a world- and tossing your hair.” “Childers has gone from beloved local class honky-tonk country band.” artist within Kentucky to internationally “On ‘House Fire,’ [Childers] lauded Appalachian prophet, telling the updates the bluegrass sounds of stories of love, loss and the left-behind in his native Kentucky with electricity “Kentucky singer-guitarist Tyler forgotten America. But what has made his and roots-rock stomp, nodding to Childers’ new single ‘House Fire’ songs resonate far outside of his home past traditions without sacrificing picks up where his breakout state’s jagged borders is his emotional the present.” album, 2017’s Purgatory, left connection and his grasp at translating off: a bluegrass-meets-country subtle feelings into gripping, resonating sound punctuated by Childers’ tales that unroll sometimes like a diary vivid writing and twangy vocals.” and sometimes like vivid snapshots from “...plain-spoken, clever lyrics, big a movie. Whether about longing for his hooks and a noticeable twang.” partner or envisioning the life of a blue- “Childers [is an] earnest, collar worker, they all ring true.” poignant songwriter.” “‘House Fire’...starts out as an “‘House Fire’ [is] a steamy bluegrass “He is the messenger...that can intimate-sounding folk/country boot-stomper about desire.” song but evolves into something cut through the cheese cloth that more hard rockin’.” gauzes up reality most days.” FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT CATHERINE SNEAD, JOE COHEN OR CARLA SACKS AT SACKS & CO., 212.741.1000, [email protected], [email protected] OR [email protected]. .