Tyler Childers' Rustin' In The Rain' is an ambitious and zealous showcase of the 32-year-old country singer’s ample talents.
as an audition for Elvis, and the result is an ambitious and zealous showcase of the 32-year-old’s ample talents. The title track opener is a supremely self-assured triumph—beginning with a frenetic electric guitar riff that recalls the work of rock n’ roll “Godmother” Sister Rosetta Tharpe, before transitioning into anthemic honky-tonk. Another surprise arrives at the halfway mark, when a blues-inspired piano line briefly takes center stage, courtesy of Chase Lewis.
But Childers doesn’t need to make grand statements to leave a mark, and a song like “Phone Calls and Emails” is a testament to such. Led by an understated piano line and punctuated by sorrowful bursts of pedal steel guitar, the track speaks to a friendship under strain, where communication is growing more and more sparse. “It’s so unnerving / To get no reply / To the phone calls and emails / I’m sending to you”, admits Childers in the first verse.
Though the highlights on Childers’ sixth studio album prove to be career benchmarks, it’s unlikely that the LP—as a whole—will go down as one of the Kentuckian’s more definitive statements. At just seven songs and 28 minutes in length,more closely resembles an EP than it does an album—even if it has been officially designated as the latter. But it would be unfair to dismissas a stopgap project sandwiched between more meaningful releases.
Childers’ sixth album was led by the single “In Your Love”—a tasteful piano ballad which became his first entry on the
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