{"id":1317080,"date":"2019-12-03T09:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815292"},"modified":"2019-12-03T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T16:33:17","slug":"how-tyler-childers-writes-a-good-country-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/how-tyler-childers-writes-a-good-country-song\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tyler Childers Writes a Good Country Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685558?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n40m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>You may or may not have heard of singer-songwriter Tyler Childers. Yet. <\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter has been making \u201cgood country music\u201d for about eight years, but sometimes it takes a Grammy nomination for you to become a household name. So now that his \u201cAll Your\u2019n\u201d has a Grammy nod for best country solo performance, suddenly everybody wants to get to know him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DrHd3nkCIz4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DrHd3nkCIz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>GQ<\/em> did just that when they published a long Q&amp;A with the outspoken artist. Much of it is devoted to the ongoing narrative of what country is and is not, how modern Americana is what used to just be countrier country, the dreaded pop-country that Childers says has infiltrated the genre, and how now it the time to take the lunch table back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t hurt my feelings if you listen to (expletive) country music. That\u2019s your fault. What I consider country music doesn\u2019t make it the end all be all, but if you ask me my opinion, that\u2019s what you\u2019re going to get,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of times, you\u2019ll be flipping through country radio and there\u2019s just no substance. Like I\u2019ve said before, it\u2019s all about props: Solo cups or whatever. It\u2019s not about a dude\u2019s work day or someone that lost a good friend or relative. There\u2019s nothing to hold onto when you\u2019re going through something. That\u2019s what music is supposed to do. It\u2019s supposed to help people out. Anybody can listen to what they want, I just don\u2019t have the time or patience for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And on and on and on like that. But eventually, somewhere deep in the story, Childers explains how he goes about his own kind of songwriting. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt comes in spurts. You might get a melody or a couple lines you like. It\u2019s ever-changing. You just have to be open to it. I don\u2019t sit down and say, \u2018Today I will write a song.\u2019 I know a lot of people that do that,\u201d he said, \u201cbut if I\u2019m not in the mood, what\u2019s the point of beating my head against the wall? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHank Sr. once said, \u2018If you can\u2019t write it in 10 minutes, it ain\u2019t worth writing.\u2019 I think I took that to heart at some point, because I appreciate the sentiment. There\u2019s no point in trying to get something to come out. If something is genuine, it should come pretty genuinely. I may take more than 10 minutes, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That Hank method is not new for Childers. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/ct-ott-tyler-childers-0209-story.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said before<\/a>, \u201cSongwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it\u2019s three to five minutes. It\u2019s important to set up a scene as efficiently as possible \u2014 short, quick and to the point. You paint a picture and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story-telling has become a lost art in the kind of country that\u2019s played on the radio these days. So if Childers is the one of the artists who can bring it back, country radio may just not be the one to put out a welcome mat. And I\u2019m guessing he\u2019s okay with that. <\/p>\n<p>Childers\u2019 \u201cAll Your\u2019n\u201d will be up against Ashley McBryde\u2019s \u201cGirl Goin\u2019 Nowhere,\u201d Willie Nelson\u2019s \u201cRide Me Back Home,\u201d Blake Shelton\u2019s \u201cGod\u2019s Country,\u201d and Tanya Tucker\u2019s \u201cBring My Flowers Now\u201d at the Grammy Awards on January 26, 2020. <\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815292\/how-tyler-childers-writes-a-good-country-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 40m ago You may or may not have heard of singer-songwriter Tyler Childers. Yet. The singer-songwriter has been making \u201cgood country music\u201d for about eight years, but sometimes it takes a Grammy nomination for you to become a household name. So now that his \u201cAll Your\u2019n\u201d has a Grammy nod for best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:49:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}