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    Songs We Love: Tyler Childers, 'Lady May'

    With a rocky, resonant voice, the Kentucky-based songwriter connects Appalachia to Nashville. Childers' official debut album is co-produced by Sturgill Simpson.
    by Ann Powers Jun 08, 2017 2 minutes
    Tyler Childers' <em>Purgatory</em> comes out Aug. 4.

    When Tyler Childers was 20, he was living in Lexington, Ky., playing in bars where he couldn't yet legally drink and gaining a reputation as a redheaded wunderkind. Even then, Childers had a rich and earthy voice, with a bit of gravel that lent him gravitas. He sang the blues and country classics, but wrote. "The people you meet, and the way they talk, just, everything they say is a song." Childers understood how to turn a phrase in ways that revealed Appalachia's poetry as well as its troubles.

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