Tyler Childers: On The Road

Name: Tyler Childers: On The Road
Start: 2025-09-30T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Forest Hills Stadium

Schedule

Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Forest Hills Stadium | Forest Hills, NY

On The Road
TYLER CHILDERS
Medium Build
TUE, 30 SEP 2025 at 07:00PM EDT
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 05:30PM
OnSale: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 at 10:00AM EST
Announcement: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 12:00PM EST
With a few words, Tyler Childers can build worlds.
A plain-spoken poet for the dreams and struggles of a working class, his music takes listenersto real places – backroad church pews, sticky-hot swimming holes and freshly-plowed farmfields, to name a few. Childers’ melodies feel lived-in, like joining a circle of familiar faces in awell-worn basement or on a shaded porch, the gathering place for folks of all kinds to sharetruths or swap tall tales after a long day.
Since he emerged from the hills of Appalachia, Childers has stormed the world with hisuncompromising voice and a candid collection of songs. He skyrocketed from playing insidesweat-soaked clubs to becoming one of today’s most sought-after artists. With his longtimeband, The Food Stamps, Childers headlines historic festival stages and delivers high-flying sold-out shows inside arenas, amphitheaters and concert halls across the globe.And many who time-and-again drop a needle on his music embrace Childers like an author to anew chapter in America’s long, revered songbook of country and folk music – a testament tohow far a well-told story can travel.
No matter if he’s delivering a fiddle tune with a hard-spoken truth or leading his band in anopen-armed country-soul sermon, new Childers music arrives with layers of time-testedstorytelling. And on his anticipated new album, Rustin’ In The Rain, the circle of tales inChilders’ catalog grows a little bigger with a fresh collection of big-hearted, wry-humored lovesongs and dirt-covered country romps.
The 2x Grammy Award-nominated singer, songwriter and musician returned to the studio withThe Food Stamps – James Barker (pedal steel), Craig Burletic (bass), CJ Cain (guitar), RodneyElkins (drums), Chase Lewis (keyboards) and Jesse Wells (guitar, fiddle) – to record Rustin’. Ina testament to the well-oiled grooves of the group, it’s the second consecutive release to be cutand co-produced by Childers alongside the Food Stamps, once again recording at Barker’shome studio, Dragline, in Huntington, West Virginia.
With Rustin’ In The Rain, the 32-year-old Kentucky native pulled together songs with a playfulconcept: What would he pitch to Elvis Presley? Graceland-era Presley, to be exact. Listenershear the result on songs like lead single “In Your Love” – a timeless, piano-tinged I’ll-wait-for-your-love ballad released alongside a heart-wrenching music video of two men falling for eachother in 1950s rural Appalachia – and “Phone Calls & Emails,” a story of modern missedconnections set to the backdrop of a crooning, classic country tune.
On “Luke 2:8-10,” Childers enlists background vocals from a one-of-a-kind trio: Margo Price,Erin Rae and S.G. Goodman, three standout singer-songwriters. The expanded band delivers arustling three-minute song about a panicked shepherd witnessing the descent of an angel fromthe heavens. Collaborations on Rustin’ continue on “Percheron Mules,” a rollicking tune thatincludes vocals from Ronnie McCoury, Jason Carter and Alan Bartram –members of acebluegrass band the Travelin' McCourys (McCoury also adds mandolin pickin’ to the song).And for one of two cover songs on Rustin’, Childers dug into country music’s balladeeringcatalog to unearth “Help Me Make It Through The Night.” He lends his mountainous vocal to theintimate, restless 1970 song, written by Kris Kristofferson and made famous by Sammi Smith’sGrammy Award-winning rendition (Presley also covered the song during a 1971 session at RCAStudio B in Nashville). To close the album, Childers covers “Space & Time,” a song penned byGoodman – a fellow Kentuckian – that chronicles the need to share moments with those youhold most dear. Goodman and Rae rejoin Childers for backing vocals on the album-closingnumber.
Still, no new song may whip Childers’ show-going audience into a frenzy like “Rustin’ In TheRain,” the barnstormin’ opening track anchored by dueling country licks and Childers’ band-leading howl – a nod to the tight-knit creatively he and the Food Stamps earned during latenights on stage and long trips on the road.
With Rustin’ In The Rain, Childers pens the next chapter in an unrivaled and unreplicable storyof real-life success that continues to reach new circles. And the best part? This tale’s just gettingstarted.