Modern Country

Modern Country

William Tyler â€“ Modern Country Release date: June 3, 2016 MRG 545 Modern Country is the fourth full-length album by guitarist and composer William Tyler and his first recorded outside of his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. It features an ensemble backing group consisting of multi-instrumentalist Phil Cook (Hiss Golden Messenger, Blind Boys of Alabama), bassist Darin Gray (Tweedy, Jim Oâ€™Rourke), and percussionist Glenn Kotche (Wilco). The album was tracked at April Base Studios in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and finished in Nashville, recorded and mixed by Jon Ashley, and produced by Tyler and Brad Cook. While there is never a comfort zone in instrumental music, Tyler attempts to leave any perceived one behind with Modern Country. His first album for Merge, 2013â€™s Impossible Truth, found Tyler exploring the boundaries of composition for solo guitar in a manner that paid homage to everyone from Leo Kottke to Brian Wilson. It was an epic song cycle that veered from cathedral-like psychedelic hymns to pastoral folk melodies. In contrast, Modern Country finds Tyler exploring more focused melodic themes rather than ethereal wanderings. These arenâ€™t pop songs, per se, but they are closer in spirit to Neu!, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and Bill Frisell. Primarily written while Tyler was on sabbatical in Oxford, Mississippi, where he stayed at the cabin of a family friend within a stoneâ€™s throw of William Faulknerâ€™s house, Modern Country is a collection of songs about the vanishing America that still exists on back roads, in small towns, on AM radio stations. In an election year when so many certainties and assurances have vanished, Tyler doesnâ€™t offer optimism or pessimism but rather a calm and measured commentary in our age of anxiety.
Country USA
Brand Merge Records
Manufacturer Merge Records
Binding Vinyl
ItemPartNumber 17894215
Model 35425698
ReleaseDate 2016-06-03
UnitCount 1
UPCs 673855054513
EANs 0673855054513

Country	USA
Brand	Merge Records
Manufacturer	Merge Records
Binding	Vinyl
ItemPartNumber	17894215
Model	35425698
ReleaseDate	2016-06-03
UnitCount	1
UPCs	673855054513
EANs	0673855054513

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