Tyler Childers to Re-Release Landmark Red Barn Radio Sessions
Any upstanding country music fan worthy of the air they breathe already knows about the brilliance of Saving Country Music’s reigning Album of the Year winner Purgatory from Tyler Childers produced by Sturgill Simpson. But many long-standing disciples of the red-headed one from Kentucky were tipped off on his brilliance years before via a couple of live EPs released in 2013 and 2014 known respectively as Live on Red Barn Radio I and II.
It was these two 4-song EPs being passed around that helped put the songwriter and east Kentucky crooner on the music map. The promise those two EPs showed had folks in Kentucky and West Virginia salivating of what Childers could do with some proper studio time. When it was revealed Sturgill Simpson would be producing his first serious label effort with David Ferguson, folks just about lost their minds.
Now the two EPs are being combined together and re-released as Live on Red Barn Radio I & II. Already available through streaming services, they will now be sent to listeners on lush, 180-gram vinyl. Featuring the first appearance of Tyler’s “Whitehouse Road,” and a fan favorite song called “Rock Salt and Nails,” the first EP features Tyler’s acoustic backing band The Highwall, while the second one is just Tyler and a guitar. Both were recorded live in Kentucky. These eight songs are essential for any Tyler Childers fan.
Red Barn Radio is a 15-year-old Old Time and Bluegrass program that features traditional artists from Kentucky and nearby communities. Tyler Childers has returned to the Red Barn program multiple times, and Sturgill Simpson also performed on Red Barn Radio in 2007 with his band Sunday Valley. Earlier this week, Childers was nominated for the Americana Emerging Artist of the Year. Tyler also released another album in 2011 called Bottles & Bibles.
Live on Red Barn Radio I & II will be released in June, and is now available for pre-order.
TRACK LIST:
- Shake The Frost
- Deadman’s Curve
- Charleston Girl
- Whitehouse Road
- Rock Salt and Nails
- Coming Down
- Follow You to Virgie
- Bottles and Bibles
May 17, 2018 @ 8:15 am
Great news! I kind of wish that some of the other songs from these sessions floating around YouTube such as 22nd Winter and Oneida would’ve been added to this. Regardless, it’s an instant purchase as is.
May 17, 2018 @ 8:19 am
Yes! I’ll be purchasing a few copies of this. Love Tyler’s work.
May 17, 2018 @ 9:59 am
Is one for listening and 2 for backup or collecting?
May 17, 2018 @ 1:09 pm
One is for listening and the others are for forcing on my friends who are too lazy to seek out new music.
May 17, 2018 @ 1:32 pm
Maybe we should all do that a little more….
May 17, 2018 @ 4:45 pm
Like Tyler Childers himself told me when he saw 2 copies of Purgatory at my house last August. Always buy 3 albums, 1 for playing, 1 for collecting, and 1 to give away.
May 17, 2018 @ 8:36 am
Took about 5 seconds for me to buy this when I saw it on his Instagram a couple days ago.
May 17, 2018 @ 9:04 am
Love love love this man. This is great news!
May 17, 2018 @ 9:49 am
Tyler Childers isn’t an artist; he’s a force of nature.
May 17, 2018 @ 10:16 am
I have a copy of this on cd. It is very good. I got tickets to see him in a couple of weeks and I paid $17. It sold out in a very short time and now resale tickets are going for $70! Pretty crazy
May 17, 2018 @ 9:00 pm
The show I’m going to in Morgantown on the 31st is going for $226 a piece on the secondary market. It’s a small venue… a listing room. I lucked out getting tickets because on FB I clicked either the INTERESTED or GOING button. A couple days later I got a password for the presale…. all the tickets were sold during the presale. People were pissed who waited for the tickets to go on sale at the official time. So always click the INTERESTED or GOING button on FB when an event is announced.
May 17, 2018 @ 9:29 pm
Tyler Childers is blowing up. See him now in a small venue when you still can.
May 18, 2018 @ 8:54 am
Got tickets to see Tyler Childers at Friday Cheers in Richmond in 2 weeks. I feel like I’m stealing paying $5 general admission to see him.
May 19, 2018 @ 7:19 am
Playing a 1:45 in the afternoon here at Lollapalooza…… so much for a small venue. It’ll be great for him to play to such a diverse audience but I’d rather have him be playing our Windy City Smokeout. I’m not a “Palooza” guy.
May 18, 2018 @ 5:40 am
That is so fucked, have heard talk about secondary ticket market (lawsuits etc & various articles here / elsewhere) but haven’t dealt with it myself as I mostly go to smaller name shows.
Seriously though what the fuck, just doubling their $$$ isn’t good enough****? from $17 to $70 & $___ to $226 WTF hopefully more musicians and/or their handlers will step up bc I guarantee you this model is not sustainable..
****while contributing absolutely nothing to the musician / society etc – pure fucking greed / all take no give
if all you are is a middle man
May 17, 2018 @ 11:59 am
Hopefully they’ll put Bottles & Bibles on vinyl too
May 17, 2018 @ 1:13 pm
Good cover of Rock, Salt and Nails but for me it can’t compete with Steve Young’s version.
May 17, 2018 @ 3:25 pm
That ones great too. Also dig Willie Watson’s version.
May 17, 2018 @ 1:25 pm
Hoping it will be released on cd down the road.
May 17, 2018 @ 1:27 pm
Never mind, just saw it available. Reading is tough…
May 17, 2018 @ 1:56 pm
Is the only great thing about this, the fact that it is on vinyl now?
These two EPs have been out for a long time.
Looking to get some new exposure to them?
Can’t wait for new music.
He has so many songs I want to here recorded properly.
May 17, 2018 @ 3:15 pm
I’ve heard that he has been in the studio off and on the last few months with a new album possible later in the year. So there’s hope!
May 17, 2018 @ 3:51 pm
Yes I’m looking to get some new exposure to them. Never a bad idea to reinforce good music in my opinion. Don’t think we can take it for granted everyone knows about them, or that everyone that would love to own it on vinyl knows it’s being re-released.
May 17, 2018 @ 10:27 pm
Stringbuzz, seems he’s going to have another new album out by the end of the year.
May 17, 2018 @ 3:19 pm
Excellent! I first heard about Ty here so I need to catch up.
May 17, 2018 @ 4:46 pm
I met Tyler at a get-together when I was a student at Berea College. Having some beers and listening to him play was amazing even then long before he got “found.” I’m so glad he made it — I hope more of the amazing musicians I met in Eastern Kentucky get heard too. I also recommend listening to his wife Senora’s music as well.
May 17, 2018 @ 7:27 pm
Shooter Jennings introduced me to Tyler with that short lived Gimme My XXX. Tyler did Hard Times; if I remember correctly he was like 17 or 18, definitely under 20.
May 17, 2018 @ 8:54 pm
Charleston Girl and Shake the Frost are my two favorite songs by Childers.
May 18, 2018 @ 10:42 am
This version of “White House Road” is the absolute best in my opinion. And “Follow You To Virgie” puts a tear in my beer everytime.
May 18, 2018 @ 11:08 am
I really haven’t heard anything from Tyler I don’t like.
I am hoping for a nice studio version of A Song While You’re Away.
House on Fire..
OMG he has so much strong solid material.
Seen him 4 times..
I will never seen him with 60 people in a barn in New Hampshire again though!
May 18, 2018 @ 11:59 pm
I was really hoping Shake the Frost would of made Purgatory because it’s my hands down favorite Tyler song. Still, to pick these up on vinyl is great
May 19, 2018 @ 3:09 pm
Rumor has it another Kentucky artist popular here will be on stage at the Ryman with Tyler tonight ????
May 28, 2018 @ 3:02 pm
I can’t wait to get this! I’ve heard all the tracks but it will great to have them collected in an official release!