From M. Pure Music, had all songs considered on Lars Gottrich, dearly beloved, we are

gathered here today to celebrate the best music released in the month of September and

my man Tyler Childers is here to bring the gospel.

I am here with Jerusalem Truth, Hey Jerusalem and and powers. Hallelujah, brother Lars,

how are you on this fun day? Oh, there you are, I am. And here's the thing, there is a silly

amount of music released every day, every week, every month, every year, it is overwhelming,

so it is our job in M. Pure Music to distill in essence. Let's call it Oda Music. And that's it,

we are here to recommend a triple album by Tyler Childers. I send three discs or three records or

if you're on a streaming services, I guess that's three chapters. The Tyler Childers is a songwriter

from Kentucky who plays a little country, a little bluegrass, a little bit of everything. But

on this album, which is called Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven, he makes a gospel record that's

not quite a gospel record and he takes the same eight songs and records them three times. And

tell me what's going on with this record. Well, Tyler Childers is definitely one of the most

adventurous artists working in what we loosely call Americana or country or roots or southern music

today. Tyler always does what he wants to do and he's very high concept, but as we heard in that

track, he's also, can we call it down home? I mean, he understands where he came from. He's very

grounded in the culture of Kentucky where he lives. He's very intertwined with the community there.

And this record he made after getting sober, becoming a dad, and spending a lot of time in his

garden where he contemplated the bigger questions of life and decided he wanted to approach the

music that he grew up with in Southern Baptist Church. And he took eight songs, five originals,

two traditional hymns, and the song we just heard, which is a Southern gospel tune made famous by

Hank Williams Sr., and explored them from different angles, playing with his touring band, The Postage

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