 |
| Tyler Childers (photo by David McClister) |
This article is a few months old, but provides a great in-depth portrait of singer and songwriter Tyler Childers, an Eastern Kentucky native who has "earned praise from -- and comparisons to -- John Prine."
Childers was in high school when 20/20 came to town to film a segment on Appalachia. He and many others disliked the segment for its stereotypical depiction of rural residents, especially after Diane Sawyer's crew gave out Mountain Dew and encouraged locals to drink it while they filmed, then reported on the prevalence of tooth decay because of drinking the sugary soda.
"This split reality — the way the media and the rest of the world, outside of his community, portrayed Appalachia and blue-collar America, and the way he saw it day to day — clearly left an impression. Childers started writing songs about what life was really like up in those hills — on 2011’s Bottles and Bibles, recorded in a friend’s backyard studio, he sings about the struggle to raise a family and put food on the table with one foot in the coalmine and one in the grave (“hell’s probably better than trying to get by,” he laments on “Hard Times.”)," Marissa Moss writes for Rolling Stone. "Childers was a teenager, but he wanted to tell the world what existed beneath the “Mountain Dew Mouth” narrative, and he wanted to tell the people who lived there that he understood their plight. And that he would tell their truth."
from The Rural Blog https://ift.tt/2OBiGn9 How Tyler Childers became the 21st Century voice of Appalachia - Entrepreneur Generations
0 Response to "How Tyler Childers became the 21st Century voice of Appalachia - Entrepreneur Generations"
Post a Comment