![]() With that cold reality out of the way though, what you do get on this album is a selection of eight very tasty tracks well worthy of the public’s attention. Meanwhile, Childers has featured songs live such as “Percheron Mules,” “Luke Chapter 2 Verses 8-10,” and his version of “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” by Bob Weir that could have better completed this effort into a cohesive expression. ![]() So as you continue to parse through the tracks of this release, it’s like whittling a walking stick down until all you’re left with is a toothpick of truly original, novel material. They’re basically the same track as on the first disc that’s called “Hallelujah,” just with extra overdubbed production add-ons, such as horn sections, or sometimes ambient dialog from vintage recordings. So really, when you crack open this package, there is only one song you’ve never heard before … in a 24-song set.įurthermore, the second versions of these songs that appear on the second disc of the album called “Jubilee” aren’t totally separate renditions of these songs. These include “Triune God,” which Tyler has also been featuring in concert for a while, “Heart You’ve Been Tendin’, and the lead single, “Angel Band,” which we also heard before the album was released. This leaves the Tyler Childers listener with really only three truly new tunes on a 3-disc, 24-song album. The other disadvantage is that of those eight songs, one is a cover of “Old Country Church” by Hank Williams, another is a new rendition of Tyler’s own song “Purgatory,” two are instrumentals (at least in their initial incarnation) that also feel more like interludes as opposed to truly original tracks, and one track is the title song of the album, which anyone who’s been listening to Tyler Childers at this point has heard half a dozen times either live or in videos. Well, its two albums of virtually the same songs, and then “something else” that will be addressed in due course. Cody Johnson’s Human: The Double Album also had a valiant run, but is nowhere near the top 20 on a perennial basis like Tyler’s Purgatory is.īut Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? is a bit unique because it’s three albums of the same eight songs. It petered out rather quickly compared to Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan. Eric Church released a triple album while he was the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year called Heart & Soul. Right beneath him is Zach Bryan with his 34-song behemoth American Heartbreak.īut more tracks don’t always translate into more success. It worked out swimmingly for Morgan Wallen, who is affixed at the very top of the Billboard Country Albums chart with his 30-song Dangerous: The Double Album, and with no signs of relinquishing that position anytime soon. This expanded format release is not especially uncommon in country music these days. And to hopefully increase his odds, Tyler has presented this release in a three-act, three-disc, or three-lp set, depending on your preferred method of music consumption. ![]() Over five years removed from its release, it’s still a regular in the Top 20 of the country albums charts, well above releases from mainstream performers released much more recently, and all from an artist that has never received any significant mainstream radio play or attention.īut now it’s time for Tyler’s Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven? to attempt to grip our attention. The album Purgatory by Tyler Childers will go down in history as one of the most important and successful releases by any country music artist in the last ten years, and perhaps in history.
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