I guess most people would celebrate a holiday BEFORE the date rather than after, but hey we’re just real Shane and Melody. If we’re not late, well then, you probably told us to be there an hour and half early. That being said, I thought I’d share some love this Melody Monday after Valentine’s Day with Tyler Childers’ All Your’n.
I’ve loved Tyler’s voice and lyrics since I first heard him several years ago. I remember feeling then and still feeling now how listening to him feels like listening to a family member tell a story or sitting around a campfire hearing a friend tell a story. He feels like home.
And his home and our homes aren’t far away at all. Tyler was born and raised in Lawrence County Kentucky. He graduated from Paintsville High School (same town as Chris Stapleton, but not the same school). His mom was a nurse and his dad was a coal miner, something he’s wrote about in his music and spoke about frequently. He said in an interview with Outsider, “Our whole entire economy was based around coal. Even if you weren’t directly in coal. If you were some gas station that sold biscuits and gravy on the way to a place and you were depending on all these miners going to work to stop into your station.”
Tyler has been one in the spotlight that has kept to his roots and sang about home in a way many others hadn’t since Loretta Lynn sang about Butcher Holler (which wasn’t far at all from Tyler, either). That is something definitely to be respected in my book. One day, we’ll get into that deeper, but for today we’ll focus on love. If you’re in the dog house with your sweetie for not giving a gift last week, maybe share this song to win back some affection.
“So I’ll love you ’til my lungs give out
I ain’t lyin’
I’m all your’n and you’re all mine
There ain’t two ways around it
There ain’t no tryin’ ’bout it
I’m all your’n and you’re all mine”