“I’m a dial-up man in a 5G world,” Tyler Childers says with a laugh after returning to a video conference with the six fellow musicians in his longtime band, The Food Stamps.
Childers had briefly disappeared from the Zoom after moving from his initial location in a nondescript room, then walking down a hallway and a stairwell before resurfacing in the rectangle occupied by bandmate Jesse Wells. The pair had driven to Nashville earlier that day to participate in the next evening’s Hello From The Hills benefit concert.
Despite Childers’ comment, he is no Luddite. His new three-record release, Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? utilizes a variety of sonic techniques to present the same eight songs in three unique settings. The opening album, Hallelujah features Childers and The Food Stamps on their first-ever studio record after nearly a decade of live performances. Jubilee expands the palette, and the seven musicians are joined by horns, strings and even a sitar player as they reimagine the tracks. Finally, on Joyful Noise Charlie Brown Superstar (Brett Fuller) remixes the material, incorporating samples from The Andy Griffith Show, comedian Jerry Clower and portions of some church services sourced by Wells, who is the archivist at the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University.
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