The rising country star Ty Myers can cry in his beer – he just can't drink it

Like many country artists, Myers learned how to write drinking songs (examples are “Drinkin 'Alone” and “Drunk Love”, with texts that “Throw down, so throw em' shot for shot/until I cannot feel the stool on which I sit”).

What is different from some of his rural mates is that he played in bars and wrote such songs before he reached the legal alcohol age of 21 years. At the age of 17 (and 18 years old in September), he actually had the opportunity to reach this milestone.

“I went to these dance halls and clubs, which I probably shouldn't have had at a young age,” said Myers, who was all 3 years old when his parents brought him for the first time to see his father played western swing dancehall music.

“There are pictures of me at 1 or 2 a.m. while I saw my father playing,” he said. “My parents would watch me and they said I was always really locked up on the music. They could only say that it was my focus.”

Myers began to play an acoustic guitar before his parents bought him an E -guitar from Fender Squier. At home, he and his father adapted it to the pickups that Bünde and other improvements-so that it sounded like a high-end guitar that TY would play at gigs.

It didn't take long for him to write his own material that he started uploading to YouTube and other social media platforms. Like many artists of his age, he found the first commercial success here. The first song he brought out there was “Ties the Bind”, a country ballad that became viral a few months after his publication.

“We released it in early 2023 and it went very well, especially compared to what we expected because we had no really expectations, right?” Said Myers. “And then, just a few months later, I go to bed one night and I look at my phone and I am like: 'Man, this is strange. I just get a lot of Instagram followers. But whatever, I'll go to bed.'”

The next morning Myers' sister shook him up to show him that the song was actually blown up overnight and had now 300,000 prospects.

When it happened, the family drove to Key West, Florida for a vacation when the view continued. Three record labels sent while driving. “It was like this surreal experience,” said the musician.

Myers finally signed at Records Nashville/Columbia Records, which published his debut in full length “The Select” in January.

It didn't take long for critics to begin to notice and sing his praise. All Country messages called him a “childhood in teenagers and an impressive force that re -formulated the Country music landscape”. Other critics have described Myers' music as “timeless”, and more than some of them described him as “old soul”.

In a Tikok interview, Myers confirmed just as much in which he said that he was “always striving for when the most mature person was perceived in the room.”

This maturity is even reflected in the name of his album and his tour, which began in May and will continue until the end of the year. The selection was the name of the Paris Bar, in which Ernest Hemingway's circle of Expatriate writers and artists convened.

There is also an eclecticism that is obvious in the broad spectrum of cover songs that Myers played live or on social media, from Tyler Childer's' “Feedned Indian” and John Mayer's “Slow Dancing in a burning room” to George Straits “Down and Out” and Bill Withers “Use Me Me”.

Myers also becomes an impressive E guitarist who was introduced to the art of soloing by hearing Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Myers' musical vocabulary also begins to grow, which he has largely credited to his parents.

Myers' father Michael, Michael, was not just a singer-songwriter who spent a lot of time to hear records of classic country artists such as Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Ray Price and Waylon Jennings.

“My father loved country music, but my mother somehow diversified my taste,” said Myers. “It was in the car with her that I heard soul and blues and even rap for the first time. All these genres and subgenres. And that was the first time that I heard Stevie Ray Vaughan, which was like an out -of -body experience.

“And that was my first introduction to music,” he said. “I owe that a lot because my love of music really started.”

Concert preview

Ty Myers

8 p.m. Friday. With Hannah McFarland. Sold out with resale tickets. The Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St. NW, Atlanta. Tabernacleatl.com.