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New York Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Heart-Lifting Magic of a Pop-up Concert
In the South, the school year typically begins in August. By now, the fried-chicken family reunions have come and gone, and the beach trips are fading from memory. And yet, here in the deepest heat of summer, the urge to get out of the city is more powerful than ever. Away from the shadeless streets. Away from the noise. Away from even the ordinarily friendly people, all of them irritable, as tired of the heat and the noise as you are. So when I got an email from the country artist Tyler Childers — or at least from his marketing team — informing me of a 'top secret pop-up show' to be held five days later somewhere in central Kentucky, I promptly registered for the drawing that would determine who could buy tickets. Apparently, I inadvertently joined this mailing list when I preordered a vinyl copy of 'Snipe Hunter,' Mr. Childers's latest record, but I was thrilled to have a shot at buying those tickets. I figured my odds of getting them fell somewhere between low and subterranean — there was room for only 500 people, and Mr. Childers routinely sells out arenas and stadiums — but it was worth a try. A road trip through soybeans and cornfields to see one of my favorite country artists struck me as pretty good recompense for the dog days. In a time when so many country songs are written by committee, Mr. Childers is a one-of-a-kind original — an audacious, innovative songwriter who sings his heart out onstage. One of the best things about having something to look forward to is having something to look forward to, but there is no anticipation involved in most pop-up concerts. There you are, eating your lunch, and suddenly Tyler Childers is standing in your favorite East Nashville sandwich shop, as he was last week, singing every track on his new record. It's hard not to love a pop-up show. The unexpected delight of it. The unearned gift of it. The Oh-My-God-I-Thought-It-Was-Nothing-But-A-Downhill-Slog-Till-Christmas-And-Yet-Look-Here-At-This of it. Suddenly there's a rift in the ordinary, an interruption of patterns that makes you understand how miraculous the ordinary really is, how capricious its imaginary patterns. I couldn't believe it when I got the text telling me I'd hit the ticket lottery. I am just about the luckiest person I know, but for a lot of reasons, mostly existential, I stopped feeling lucky a while back. Here was a bit of luck I'd hardly had the heart to hope for. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Forbes
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Tyler Childers Played A Surprise Gig At Nashville Sandwich Shop: Watch
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - APRIL 24: Singer/guitarist Tyler Childers performs at PNC Music Pavilion ... More on April 24, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by) Grab a sandwich and hear new tunes from a one-of-a-kind country singer? Sounds like lunch time on a Monday in Nashville. This week, Kentucky troubadour Tyler Childers surprised fans with a pop-up performance at Turkey and the Wolf Icehouse, a buzzy sandwich joint in East Nashville that opened earlier this year. During the noontime patio gig, Childers and his band performed songs from his new Rick Rubin-produced album Snipe Hunter, as well as a cover of Hank Williams' 'Old Country Church' (which Childers released in 2022) and a solo rendition of fan-favorite love tune 'Lady May.' Childers announced the event early Monday, giving fans a few hours to score a spot for the outdoor show. One of the most antipciated country releases of 2025, Snipe Hunter hit streaming services and record store shelves last Friday. A boundry-pushing album that ruminates on religion ("Tirtha Yatra"), delivers rollicking cuts about Koala bears ("Down Under") and serves undeniable snark ("Bitin' List"), Snipe Hunter marks the first collaboration between Childers and Rubin; the album follows Childers' 2023 seven-song LP, Rustin' In The Rain. The surprise Nashville gig included live debuts of the aforementioned 'Bitin' List' and 'Down Under,' as well as takes on new songs like the swampy stream-of-concious rocker 'Eatin' Big Time," newly-recorded country waltz 'Onedia' and groovin' album-closer 'Dirty Ought Trill.' Childers returns to Nashville this fall for two nights at a much larger venue – GEODIS Park. He headlines the soccer stadium Oct. 10 and Oct. 11. Tyler Childers Surprise Nashville Show
Yahoo
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tyler Childers Pines for an Older Woman in New Song ‘Oneida'
Tyler Childers tries in vain to make a connection with an older woman whose taste in music and movies are before his time in the new song 'Oneida.' A fan favorite that Childers has played live for years, the studio version of 'Oneida' appears on Snipe Hunter, the Kentucky songwriter's forthcoming album. 'I lay here awake and I laugh at her jokes/She is referencin' movies I'm too young to know,' he sings in one verse, before acknowledging his youth (and inability to purchase alcohol) in the chorus. 'Oneida I know that I'm younger than most/But I'm willin' if you got the time/to buy us some wine.' More from Rolling Stone Tyler Childers Readies New Album 'Snipe Hunter' With Rick Rubin Tyler Childers Plays 'Long Violent History' for First Time Ever, in L.A. Chris Stapleton and Tyler Childers to Co-Headline Healing Appalachia Benefit 'Oneida' follows the release of 'Nose on the Grindstone,' another fan favorite that Childers finally recorded in the studio. Both songs appear on Snipe Hunter, produced by Rick Rubin and due July 25. Childers shared the titles of all 13 tracks appearing on the record on Wednesday. Childers will support the album with appearances at festivals like Under the Big Sky in Whitefish, Montana, and on his own headlining dates, including a pair of shows at Forest Hills Stadium in New York and two gigs at Geodis Park in Nashville. He'll headline London's O2 Arena in November. track list:1. 'Eatin' Big Time'2. 'Cuttin' Teeth'3. 'Oneida'4. 'Getting to the Bottom'5. 'Bitin' List'6. 'Nose on the Grindstone'7. 'Watch Out'8. 'Down Under'9. 'Poachers'10. 'Snipe Hunt'11. 'Tirtha Yatra'12. 'Tomcat and a Dandy'13. 'Dirty Ought Trill' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tyler Childers Takes Big Risks and Reaps Huge Rewards on ‘Snipe Hunter'
Tyler Childers has always seemed comfortable in his contradictions. He's an old-soul traditionalist whose throwback ballads regularly go TikTok viral; a recovering alcoholic who still releases some of the 21st century's best drinking music; a stadium-sized star who hasn't performed his most popular song in a half-decade. For the past ten years, Childers has been preaching his righteous Kentucky gospel (see 'Long Violent History,' written in the wake of George Floyd protests). Part of that project is showing that, in contrast to how it's typically portrayed, Childers' home region of Appalachia is just as contradictory, complex, and full of surprises as he is. Until now, he's anchored that message to Purgatory, his 2017 debut LP. It remains his best-selling LP and the backbone of his live show, despite him having released several terrific records (like 2022's Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?) since. More from Rolling Stone Robert Earl Keen Taps Tyler Childers, Miranda Lambert for Massive Texas Flood Benefit Tyler Childers Pines for an Older Woman in New Song 'Oneida' Tyler Childers Readies New Album 'Snipe Hunter' With Rick Rubin That's destined to change with Snipe Hunter, Childers' career-redefining, Rick Rubin-produced new album. Over 13 tracks, Childers triples down on the trailblazing he's already known for, singing about hunting and hindu scripture while name checking songs by everyone from Cyndi Lauper to Stephen Foster and exploring new sonic territory (garage rock, Phil Spector pop) with his longtime bar band-turned-arena-headliners, the Food Stamps. Childers could be taking victory laps, but Snipe Hunter is anything but: There's the riff about koala STD's on 'Down Under;' the hare krishna chants that open up the Scottish folk-inspired ballad 'Tom Cat and a Dandy;' the verse about lighting the 'devil's dick on fire' on 'Getting to the Bottom;' the drum programming that turns 'Dirty Ought Trill,' the album-closing ode to a dog training deer hunter, into a stadium-sized sing-along. Seldom does anyone with Childers' level of fame take this many bold leaps and wacky left-turns. In a risk-averse genre like country, it's unheard of. Snipe Hunter, however, makes such risks feel as inevitable as they are natural. The album is a thrilling, entirely sui generis statement of purpose that simultaneously closes the loop on Childers' past (see the update on fan favorite 'Nose on the Grindstone') while pointing toward his boundless future. In the process, it establishes him as arguably the most singular and visionary artist in country music today. There will be much hoopla surrounding Childers' sonic departures on this record (in addition to drum programming, there's vocoder, mouth harp, clavinet and modular synths played by Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn). But what Rubin seems to have drawn out of Childers, more than anything, is an entirely new level of vocal performance from the 34 year-old. Childers' voice has never sounded like this: On Snipe Hunter, he shouts, shrieks, coos, croons, belts and whispers from one track to the next. On 'Getting to the Bottom,' he leans into vibrato, drawing practically four syllables out of the word 'doused.' On 'Cuttin' Teeth,' a fictionalized tale of his own come up as a road-dogging twenty-something, Childers embraces new vocal registers, delivering the tune with an affected whisper that establishes the distance the modern-day Childers likely feels from the tale's protagonist. Just one song prior, on 'Eatin' Big Time,' he spends much of the song outright screaming. That latter song, the album opener, shows the Kentucky songwriter fully in command of his pen. Leave it to Childers to take one of the most tired songwriting tropes for an artist of his stature — the 'it's so hard to be famous and rich' song—and turn it into a searing meditation on class anxiety and gratitude. 'Ya goddamn right I'm flexing,' Childers sings of his Weiss watch, before delivering the subsequent line with so much fury you can practically hear the vein popping in his neck. 'Have you ever got to hold and blow a thousand fucking dollars?' Indeed, Childers' writing has never felt sharper in its strange specificity. Here he is describing alcoholism: 'Do their livers scream for water?' Here he is daydreaming about bringing his band along for a holy Hindu pilgrimage: 'We'd leave behind all our merch.' Here he is arguing with the 'bro' bouncer in his otherwise flowery devotional 'Oneida.' Here he is singing the words sworp, joist, tupperware, crocidilian, and booger. Here he is, mid-song, delivering dog training commands: Gib laut! Childers ties it all together in 'Poachers,' an understated ballad that at first glance, feels merely like yet another new song about hunting. But Childers uses his portrait of a character caught flouting poaching laws to touch on a long list of big-picture themes: the criminal justice system, small town gossip and prejudice, the crisis of American drug addiction. By the end of the mini-masterpiece, the song's narrator is in danger of getting into some trouble: 'I'm too busy for prison,' he explains. But the narrator is proud of where he comes from, and he just might be able to find a way forward. 'I'm a miner at heart,' Childers sings with a big wink, 'so I'd dig out a way.' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
