Tickets are $25in adv and $30 day of show (if avail). Seated Side Riser tickets are $75 (ltd qty - avail online only).
Get adv tickets starting Friday Dec 14th at 10am at www.soulkitchenmobile.com or by calling 866.777.8932.
Under 18 with a parent only.
Performing as part of the Law Offices of Alexander Shunnarah & Assoc Concert Series.
Like many great Southern storytellers, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers has fallen in love with a place. The people, landmarks and legendary moments from his childhood home of Lawrence County, Kentucky, populate the 10 songs in his formidable debut, Purgatory, an album that's simultaneously modern and as ancient as the Appalachian Mountains in which events unfold.
The album, co-produced by Grammy Award winners Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson, is a semiautobiographical sketch of Childers' growth from wayward youth to happily married man, told in the tradition of a Southern gothic novel with a classic noir antihero who may just be irredeemable. Purgatory is a chiaroscuro painting with darkness framing light in high relief. There's catharsis and redemption. Sin and temptation. Murder and deceit. Demons and angels. Moonshine and cocaine. So much moonshine and cocaine. All played out on the large, colorful canvas of Eastern Kentucky.
Childers had been searching for a certain sound for his debut album for years as he honed his craft, and was finding it elusive when his friend, drummer Miles Miller, introduced him to Simpson, the Grammy Award-winning musician and fellow Kentuckian. Childers sent Simpson a group of his songs, then went to visit him in Nashville.
"And he said, 'There's this sound. I know what you're trying to get at, the mountain sound,'" Childers recalled. "'So I asked, 'What are you doing?'"
Intrigued, Simpson enlisted the aid of Ferguson, the Grammy Award winning sound engineer. They assembled a band that included multi-instrumentalists Stuart Duncan, Michael J. Henderson and Russ Pahl, bassist Michael Bub and Miller on drums, of course, and helped Childers make a debut album of consequence that announces an authentic new voice.
"I was writing an album about being in the mountains," Childers said. "I wanted it to have that gritty mountain sound. But at the same time, I wanted a more modern version of it that a younger generation can listen to -- the people I grew up with, something I'd want to listen to."
Tickets are $17 in adv and $20 day of show (if avail). Seated Side Riser tickets are $37.50 (ltd qty - avail online only). $5 sur charge at the door for anyone under 21.
Get adv tickets starting Friday Feb22nd at 9am at www.soulkitchenmobile.com or by calling 866.777.8932 or at Mellow Mushrooms (USA & midtown locations).
Under 18 with a parent only.
Performing as part of the Law Offices of Alexander Shunnarah & Assoc Concert Series.
