Modern Country
Guitarist William Tyler returns backed by an all-star band that notably includes Wilco’s Glenn Kotche and Megafaun’s Phil Cook, summoning a wide range of moods and telling stories without vocals.
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2013's Impossible Truth found William Tyler exploring the technicolour world of instrumental composition through droning, introspective meditation.
Though William Tyler's fingerpicking has always suggested open vistas, ragged coasts, and endless plains, the streamlined Modern Country summons the undying hum and manmade ingenuity of freeways and canals.
The US guitarist draws on his Southern upbringing and on-the-road contemplation for an eloquent, unpredictable instrumental album
William Tyler’s fourth record, Modern Country, celebrates a vanishing America: The AM radio stations, dirt roads, rickety bait and tackle shops, suspect greasy spoons and locales marked only by rusty signs and a collection of ramshackle houses along a country highway.