Childers showed off the unique voice and lyrical mastery that won him a niche in the country landscape.
must begin with the voice. Yet to describe his vocals can, at times, feel like a fool’s errand. It is, assays, a “scuffed-up twang.” But that’s just scratching the surface. Childers’ vocals are riddled with sorrow. It’s the vocal equivalent of a cigarette, a glass of bourbon and a story that’s been passed down too many times to count. It’s like he’s reaching down through generations of his Kentucky homeland and pulling up all the joy and heartbreak his people have ever experienced.
The show was part of the “Mule Pull '24 Tour,” a nod to a particularly biting story from his Kentucky upbringing. He grew up playing guitar and doing landscape work in and around Lexington, and one year, the mill where he worked asked him to play some music at the office Christmas party. Childers tried to impress with a tie and some nice shoes, only to be told by a man at the party that he looked like “a mule looking over a picket fence.”last fall.
The Food Stamps — a bunch of guys from Kentucky and Tennessee, as Childers tells it — brought everything from an accordion to a fiddle to a synth and an upright bass. Their frontman would often step back from his mic to survey their versatility, nodding his head to their playing like an appreciative teacher. The highlight, though, was the storytelling these instruments made possible.
He played four songs — including “Follow You to Virgie” and “Shake the Frost” — alone on stage with nothing but a guitar, belting out confessions of love that double as appreciation for Kentucky, its nature and the humble strivers who live among the mountains. He also sang a stripped-down version of “Nose on the Grindstone,” a lament of the opioid crisis ravaging Appalachia.
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