Tyler Childers' 'Purgatory' Debuts at #1 on Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart

Tyler Childers' Purgatory debuts this week at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart with over 6,000 equivalent albums sold. The album also lands at #17 on the Country Albums chart and #4 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart.

Out now on Hickman Holler Records via Thirty Tigers (purchase here), the 10-song album was recorded at Nashville's The Butcher Shoppe studio and was produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson. Watch Childers perform the album track, "Whitehouse Road," HERE.

In addition to Childers (vocals, acoustic guitar), the album features a variety of world-renowned musicians including Simpson (acoustic guitar, background vocals), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Miles Miller (drums, background vocals) and Russ Pahl (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel, Jew's harp) among others

Of the album, the Lawrence Country, KY native comments, "I am extremely grateful for Miles Miller introducing me to Sturgill Simpson, and also for Sturgill and David Ferguson taking the time to work with me. I think we both wanted to make an album for east KY, and I reckon that's what we did. It's not about rock, or grass, or country...it's just hollerin' in the mountains and stirring s up! The band Sturgill and David put together was an all-star cast, and an honor to work with and learn from. I hope to do it again, but once is more than most are blessed with. For that I am thankful."

In support of the album, Childers will tour throughout 2017, including an August west coast headline run, a September residency at Nashville's The Basement, a special show supporting Drive-By Truckers in KY on September 24, and a show at New York's Mercury Lounge onOctober 18. See below for full details.

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