Tyler Childers directed a YouTube video toward his "white rural listeners" about the Long Violent History, his surprise album that he dropped Friday (Sept. 18), behind the age-old target on the backs of Black Americans.
"Long Violent History is a collection of instrumental pieces intended to create a sonic soundscape for the listener to set the tone to reflect on the last track, which is my own observational piece on the times we are in," Childers clarified about the project's main track in the six-minute video posted Monday (Sept. 21).
While lamenting on the current times brought on by the COVID-19 crisis and police brutality, he justifies the angst and anger Americans have been feeling. And for those in his Appalachian-based fanbase who can't get behind the Black Lives Matter movement, he pinpointed the reason why.