Woah! I actually came here to start a Tyler Childers thread. Nobody has responded to this and I need to help spread the WORD.
Tyler Childers, of Eastern KY, is THE best thing going on in country today, although that isn't saying much at all these days. My opinion, obviously. I like to consider his music "Americana" because there is so much folk, rock, and bluegrass mixed in with his sound, but he HATES that term. You gotta call him country.
If you like REAL country, I practically beg you to listen to his album, "Purgatory", in its entirety.
The follow up, "Country Squire", is good but not nearly as good as "Purgatory", in my book.
This new one, "Long Violent History", was special in that it was unannounced and ends with a powerful message on civil unrest (I'm sure that gets a big pass from many on here) but he admits that the traditional numbers leading up to it are just him showing his very rudimentary fiddle skills.
