It was a stormy Thursday night for the Tyler Childers show at the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, with rain falling on and off up until the start of the show.
This was the fourth show on the Send in the Hounds Tour, in support of Childers 3-disc, Billboard top 10 release, Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven? Childers, a Kentucky native, has a sound heavily influenced by his Appalachian bluegrass roots with just enough grit to seem outlaw country. But it’s not really that, so it must be Americana. But not quite. So what genre is Tyler Childers? Does it really matter?
The singer put out his debut album in 2011 when he was just 19 years old. His breakthrough album came in 2017 with Purgatory, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Heat Seeker chart. Later, Childers won the Emerging Artist of the Year in 2018 at the Americana Music & Honors Awards. He addressed the genre issue in his acceptance speech, identifying as a country singer and saying that being classified as an Americana singer "kind of feels like purgatory.”
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