Purgatory
| Tyler Childers
Purgatory
Purgatory is the second studio album by American country music singer Tyler Childers. It was released in August 2017 under Hickman Holler. -Wikipedia
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All Music
Purgatory feels fresh, due largely to how Childers -- who writes all ten songs here -- isn't stuck in the past; he's viewing everything through the prism of the present.
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NPR
Purgatory is supposed to be a concept album about Childers' growth from young troublemaker to centered, married man. But the frame's not really necessary. His stories may be autobiographical or not; they feel lived in, and that's what matters.
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Country Exclusive
It’s got variety in production, catchy melodies, and great songwriting throughout. It’s a good balance between the more fast-paced stuff and the love ballads, so even though there’s some similarity in theme, none of it runs together, and it makes for an engaging story.
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Americana Music Show
Purgatory, I feel, is the closing of a chapter. He sees his youthful path as full of missteps forming him but out of the darkness comes the hope. Childers and this album deserve a big future.
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Lexington Herald Leader
“Purgatory,” a record rooted in a country sound brimming with mountain roots, Appalachian soul and a country muse far more sage than one would expect out of a 27-year-old songsmith.
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Folk Radio UK
Childers isn’t pushing forward any musical frontiers, but he does make familiar landscapes feel freshly tilled on these songs about the trials, tribulations and temptations of a hardscrabble working life and the love that can be the balm of Gilead to ease the suffering.
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Maximum Volume
“Purgatory” is the tale of a journey from the drink and drugs of the opener to the love and content of the last track. All of which means that at the age of 26 Tyler Childers has done more in 10 songs than some would manage on 10 albums.
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Lula
I would highly recommend this album to anyone and everyone out there looking for an album that brings to life the struggles and hardships we all face as flawed beings. I can promise that there’s a song on this album for you. “Purgatory” is best served with your poison of choice, whether it be white lines or moonshine… or for the tamer few of us, a cup of tea.
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Your Life in A Song
This is an album that will please the traditionalists. Great songs, great delivery and great production. This guy is an emerging talent who has made an album with the magic ingredient. It gets better every time you listen.
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Hear Ya
Purgatory is a stunning debut. One that propels him into the rarefied air of Isbell, Price and Sturgill. To imagine where his career will head is enough to make you dizzy.
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Mother Church Pew
With his grizzled, accented wail and his soul-baring lyricism, Childers shines authentically at every turn. He’s as country as cornbread and as honest as the day is long. Don’t miss this one.
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Hot Press
Shit-kickin' heaven.
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NCPR News
this album isn't an exercise in artisanal recreation. Childers manages to really live within the stories he tells, having learned how to be unlearned and as authentic as possible.
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Immortal Reviews
Prepare for more clichéd country in Tyler Childers' Purgatory, with many less-than standard country-infused folk to go with the record. There are a few brighter moments on the record that show promise, but nothing that builds up to much. If old-school country is your thing, this album is for you. If it's not, then stay away.
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Saving Country Music
It’s that nexus between rural, real-world vernacular, filtered through an intelligent perspective, and gifted with poetic insight that makes an album like Tyler Childers’ Purgatory more infectious than your average throwback country effort.
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Ear to the Ground Music
This is an album that stands out in a cacophony of lukewarm country music. Childers sings right on that country/Americana/roots line in a way that our readers will love.
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