Tyler Childers performing in January 2020 in Berlin.Photo:Frank Hoensch/Redferns
Frank Hoensch/Redferns
Earlier this summer, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers introduced his new album with anemotional music videofor his single “In Your Love” that told the love story of a pair of gay coal miners in 1950s Appalachia.
“[I’ve heard from] people [who] didn’t really ever see themselves in the music that was constantly around them,” he toldThe Bitter Southernerin a new interview. “This is the first time that they’ve felt seen.”
“To be that encouragement that someone needs to get one step further to self-actualizing - that’s the power of music, and I’m just really honored that that whole entire piece resonated in that way,” he said.
The music video starsColton HaynesandYoustar James Scully as coal miners who fall in love at work. In flashbacks, viewers watch as their characters go on secret dates in the forest, where they pick four-leaf clovers.
The video ends with Haynes, now an old man, sitting on the same bench holding a four-leaf clover. On Instagram, the actor called the video “one of my favorite projects I’ve ever been a part of.”
Childers told the outlet that his cousin, who is gay, inspired the music video, as the “Feathered Indians” singer wanted him to be able to see himself in a country music video.
The Grammy-nominated musician is no stranger to weighing in on social issues through music; in 2020, he released the largely instrumentalLong Violent History, with a title track that railed against police brutality against Black men and women.
“By being vocal in the small ways that I have, it might give some of those people that are sitting on the fence wondering exactly how they should feel about it… it might push them in a direction of realizing that maybe the people around them and how they think isn’t all that there is,” he told the outlet. “To pander or cater to people that I don’t necessarily agree with, politically or philosophically … that’s never really steered me as an artist.”
The star released his new albumRustin’ in the Rainearlier this month.
source: people.com
