His songwriting captures the deceptive complexity of life in Appalachia, setting his words to an old-school mixture of ’70s honky-tonk, bluegrass, and folk music. “I guess some of that rubbed off on me.” Such understatement is characteristic for the singer, who was born in rural Lancaster County, KY, in 1991. “I sat around a lot with my dad-around hunting clubs, and outside of church and barbershops-listening to fellas older than me tell tall tales and flat-out lies,” Tyler Childers told Apple Music in 2019.
