Bottles and Bibles — Tyler Childers

A heavy, unvarnished exploration of faith and failure in the rural South.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 45m

Hard Times

2:58

Junction City Queen

3:32

We’ve Had Our Fun

3:07

Coal

3:21

Good Thing Windin’ Down

3:36

Play Me a Hank Song

5:13

If Whiskey Could Talk

3:51

The Harvest

3:05

Detroit

3:12

Bottles and Bibles

5:30

The Gospel (According to Fishermen)

2:45

Silence

2:05

Long Hard Road

3:12

Moments Worth Listening For

The title track's devastating narrative of a preacher's descent into alcoholism, delivered with a voice that sounds like it's physically breaking.

The stark, percussive acoustic strumming on 'Coal' that mirrors the rhythmic, claustrophobic labor of the mines.

The way the fiddle weeps through the spaces in 'If Whiskey Could Talk', providing a melodic counterpoint to the vocal desperation.

Where This Album Departs

How does Bottles and Bibles sound next to the rest of Tyler Childers's catalogue?

Somber+1.7σ

Somber saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

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