Track List Revealed for New Tyler Childers Album “Rustin’ In The Rain”
This story has been updated.
On July 27th, Tyler Childers announced the release of his latest album Rustin’ In The Rain coming on September 5th, along with releasing the lead single “In Your Love” and the corresponding video. But fans were left a bit in the dark about the rest of the new album since no track list was made available at that time. Saving Country Music was able to track down that Rustin’ In The Rain would have seven songs, but we didn’t know what those songs would be. Now we do.
On Thursday (8-24), the track list was revealed on Spotify’s poorly-named but pretty good “Indigo” playlist. Along with the aforementioned “In Your Love” and the title track, Rustin’ In The Rain will also include the songs “Luke 2: 8-10” and “Percheron Mules” that Childers has been performing in person for a while now, and some were expecting to see on his Gospel-inspired last album Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven.
The new album also includes a couple of high profile covers, namely Kris Kristofferson’s “Help Me Make It Through The Night” that Childers commonly plays in concert, along with the song “Space and Time” by Kentucky songwriter S.G. Goodman that Childers regularly sings live too, and is a fan favorite both from Goodman and Childers fans.
The album will also include the song “Phone Calls and Emails,” which takes on a very traditional country style, and has been featured in concert by Childers on multiple occasions as well. In fact, except for the first single “In Your Love,” all off the songs on Rustin’ In The Rain including the title track have been featured in the live set list and via folks sharing videos of them for quite a while.
Joining Tyler as guest vocalists on songs will be S.G. Goodman, Margo Price and Erin Rae on “Luke 2:8-10,” as well as the Travelin’ McCourys Ronnie McCoury, Jason Carter and Alan Bartram, on “Percheron Mules.”
Nonetheless, fans will be excited to hear the studio versions of these songs and just a couple of weeks away now on September 5th. Childers says that the album is mostly love songs, with the deeper tie-in being the mules that make numerous appearances in the lyrics.
To pre-order Rustin’ In The Rain, CLICK HERE.
TRACK LIST:
1. Rustin’ In The Rain
2. Phone Calls and Emails
3. Luke 2: 8-10
4. Help Me Make It Through The Night
5. Percheron Mules
6. In Your Love
7. Space And Time
August 24, 2023 @ 6:07 pm
I just saw Tyler last weekend here in NY and I don’t recall any of those songs. But maybe I wasn’t paying attention to the choruses. Was pleased he did a couple of songs from Purgatory and thousands of people at the festival knew Every. Single. Word of those older songs.
Hey speaking of Tyler’s band, what happened to the Wooks after Tyler poached their fiddle player and Dan Tyminski recruited the mando player? Are they still a thing? I liked them, glad you turned me onto the Wooks.
August 25, 2023 @ 5:19 am
They posted on their Instagram last year that they were taking a break. Checking again it looks like they’ve played at least one show since then so who knows if they’ll release anything in the next few years. I enjoyed their first couple of albums but Flying High was definitely a step up for me. Hopefully they’re not done for good.
August 25, 2023 @ 8:20 am
CJ Cain from The Wooks is also in Tyler’s band now. I think the addition of Jesse, and later CJ, made the already fantastic Food Stamps even better. Good boys. I think we’ll see The Wooks again someday.
August 25, 2023 @ 8:35 pm
He played the single both nights in NYC and did Space In Time on night 2 there.
August 26, 2023 @ 8:06 pm
I saw him not in NYC but at Bethel Woods in Sullivan County.
August 26, 2023 @ 9:51 pm
My bad. He did play In Your Love at Bethel but that’s it.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tyler-childers/2023/bethel-woods-center-for-the-arts-bethel-ny-1ba5e588.html
August 24, 2023 @ 6:13 pm
That Kristofferson cover was was released in 2019 on an Apple Music only single featuring “reimagined” versions of Creeker and Lady May as well.
August 24, 2023 @ 6:26 pm
For the record, we don’t know that it will be the same version of the song. It very well might be, or it may be a new version. I’ve been unable to confirm either way.
August 24, 2023 @ 6:48 pm
I’m cool with it either way. It’s one of my favorite country songs of all time. I’m just glad more people will finally be able to hear it.
August 25, 2023 @ 8:38 pm
I’m pretty sure all of these songs were recorded earlier this year. I hung out with the 3 original Food Stamp/El Dorado members in July and they were talking about recording for a new project.
August 24, 2023 @ 9:28 pm
He’s been covering that song for well over a decade. Definitely one of the best country songs of all time.
August 24, 2023 @ 6:17 pm
Everyone with apple music tracked that it had 7 songs
August 24, 2023 @ 7:11 pm
There was a concerted effort to attempt to hide the track list of this album from the public. 95% of the time, when an album is revealed, so is the track list, especially if a pre-order is involved. On Apple Music, they will often show the track names grayed out as soon as it comes online. Not this time. This track list came out basically via a Spotify playlist’s Instagram story that you had to happen upon to see, and journalists had to take a screenshot of it. If they don’t want to reveal the track list, that’s their prerogative. But I do think when you’re asking for pre-order money, people should be allowed to see what they’re getting. I’ve criticized Garth Brooks for similar things.
All that said, now that we see the track list, there are some great songs on here. I’m still a little worried seven songs will feel light, but I look forward to listening and hope for the best.
August 25, 2023 @ 3:59 am
Apologies for the bad grammar in my original comment. But i feel like if there was an effort for the tracklist to be hidden they did a bad job at hiding it because everyone online when talking about the album complained “that it was an ep” but after seeing the tracklist I’m pretty excited.
August 24, 2023 @ 6:18 pm
Lol now Trig, let’s not do anything crazy and assume the album versions are going to sound like the live arrangements he may have been playing for years.
Interested to see how this one turns out. He deserves a shout out for his recent moves trying to thwart scalpers too. Been a long standing issue for him, dating back to the $15/ticket days.
August 24, 2023 @ 6:19 pm
Pretty solid for a fan piece / concert companion. I’m scared because I preferred the pre-Hounds, concert version of “Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?” and I’m worried for some of these concert staples.
What was all that talk about Elvis influence? Did Elvis record “Help Me Make it through the Night”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he turns around and releases another 7 track collection with “Shake the Frost,” “Charleston Girl,” a proper version of “Nose on the Grindstone”….
August 24, 2023 @ 6:35 pm
Childers says of the album via press release, “This is a collection of songs I playfully pieced together as if I was pitching a group of songs to Elvis. Some covers, one co-write, and some I even wrote in my best (terrible) Elvis impersonation, as I worked around the farm and kicked around the house. I hope you enjoy listening to this album as much as I enjoyed creating it. Thank you. Thank you very much.”
This scares me. Tells me he’s taken one of the concert staples and turned it into something sounding like Elvis. Or he was just bullshitting us. Because all of these songs were written year(s) before he was kicking around the farm.
August 24, 2023 @ 7:26 pm
Yes, Elvis did record Help Me Make it Through the Night. https://youtube.com/watch?v=11SrThfyJLA
August 24, 2023 @ 6:20 pm
Man. What a stretch of musical goodness. In just over a couple months span, we’re treated to new albums from Colter, Turnpike, Zach Bryan, Ashley McBryde, Childers, CWG… I could keep going…
What a time for independent(ish) country music.
August 24, 2023 @ 7:23 pm
Looks good. Help Me Make it Through the Night is a bit of a surprise. He mentioned “a couple of covers” in the recent NPR piece and my guesses were Space and Time and the cover of Cory Branan’s “Sour Mash” that he’s been performing live lately.
August 24, 2023 @ 10:07 pm
So apparently we now know there will be X songs there, with their titles. Information that gives us zero out of nothing worth of information about the actual album. And seriously, does anyone care about the names of songs or how many there will be or their order? I realize sites nowadays need the clicks, but I didn’t think this site was similarly desperate for the traffic.
August 25, 2023 @ 5:45 am
I realize that during the social media age it is almost a requirement of everyone to complain about most anything. However, it seems like desperation to need to complain about anything when you need to complain about something as trivial as a country music blog giving out information of an upcoming country music release to fans who have been asking for it.
August 25, 2023 @ 5:58 am
I couldn’t imagine being this miserable
August 25, 2023 @ 8:18 am
I realize that during the social media age it is almost a requirement of everyone to find fault in about most anything. However, it seems like desperation to defend a country music blog giving out useless information of an upcoming country music release which no one cares about.
But seriously, I am asking a serious question here, do you care that this, or any other album contains X songs and they are ordered as such? Does knowing that “Help Me Make It Through The Night” will be at number 4 and not 6 make a difference? Does it even matter? When I see it at, say Pitchfork or Stereogum I just put it down as “oh well, they need the clicks”, but I really thought this blog won’t go there. And if you seriously think, as you claim, that this meaningless list of songs is something fans “have been asking for it”, I would love to know why, what use do you gain from it? What does it benefit you, or anyone else and why do you want this kind of report?
August 25, 2023 @ 9:05 am
Erez,
I appreciate your feedback. You’re blowing my mind right now because this is literally something I do about 100 times a year. I’m about to do it again with an upcoming album from Blackberry Smoke. Tyler’s publicist just sent out a press release with the track list, meaning they WANT the press to publish stories about it. How or why you are somehow insulted by this I will never understand. But thanks for your insight, I guess.
August 25, 2023 @ 11:50 am
OK, I’m not insulted. That’s a few levels above where I am and way to invested emotionally. Two things, of course the publisher wants this out. They would’ve released each track as a separate press release if they could get away with it. They would love if “a is releasing an album” would be a post then a post about the date, another about the cover art, then a lead song, then track list, the more the merrier. They want to maintain the artists name in our awareness, they can’t release the songs, so they churn out whatever information they have bits by bits. I leave them out.
Me? I only care about the music, as I mentioned, I’m the one who scrolls to the bottom of the review to first listen to the music, then I scroll up and read your words (having formed some thoughts about the music). So out of this, the name of the album I could take or leave, but we like to know what to look for. The cover art is almost an after thought in this day and age. The date is important, of course, but the names of the songs?
I am not saying “for heavens sake man, don’t do this”. It’s not a feedback, it’s a question. Why do you post this? If it’s a greatest hits, or known songs, or a tribute album, then obviously the songs are a known quantity and a topic of interest. A new artist is announcing that track 6 on his yet to be released album will be named “I’ll Take Care of you” which comes after “Parents” but before “Being Blessed”? What information have anyone gleamed off of this? Or here, song 6 is “After the ordeal”, song 7 is “The cinema show”, 8 is “Aisle of Plenty”.
I realize it’s a bit odd, and this isn’t a criticism or a feedback (other than this being the only blog I feel I can actually ask this), just that this question is gnawing at me for a long time now. No emotion, just curiosity.
August 25, 2023 @ 12:46 pm
Hey Erez,
Like I said, I post articles like this all the time. Unlike other website, I also post in-depth album reviews, like the 17-paragraph one I just did for the Turnpike Troubadours.
Specific to this Tyler Childers project though, there has been a TON of interest in the track list. Why? Because a lot of people felt like his last album was a disappointment in the way it came with 24 tracks that were basically the same 8 songs done three different ways, and also included covers and instrumentals. So when it came to this album, there was a heightened interest in what the track list would be. If you go back and read my article on the album announcement, you will see this:
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/tyler-childers-readies-new-7-song-album-releases-new-song-video/
So when they announced the track list, I posted an article about it. You may not be interested in the track list, and that doesn’t mean that other people aren’t. And just because other people are and its a point of intrigue doesn’t mean it’s “click bait.” I’m a music journalist. I wrote about music. That’s what’s happening here. I think there is exceptional interest in this track list. It’s baffling why you wouldn’t understand this, if not for yourself, then for others.
August 26, 2023 @ 5:39 am
I care because of Sturgill, Parker Millsap, Paul Cauthen, Andrew Combs, DAC, Ray Wylie, and so many others that were “my kind of country” and then went in a direction that makes me want to cry. I want to know if I should be excited for an album coming up.
Part of Trigger’s job depends on clicks and I am certain that plays a role in certain decisions, but I do not believe in any way that this article was written for that purpose.
One of my jobs is to defend him when it is warranted because he does some great things for our lives.
August 25, 2023 @ 8:24 am
This has to be one of the most unusual comments left on this site in history, which is saying a lot. I post about 100 articles a year announcing the track lists of upcoming albums and presenting the pre-order link.
“So apparently we now know there will be X songs there, with their titles. Information that gives us zero out of nothing worth of information about the actual album.”
It will never make sense in my brain how someone could ever believe this is a true statement, especially in this case when the songs in the track list are songs that Tyler Childers has been playing live, so it literally tells us what to expect in rather certain terms.
Man, so sick of people calling articles “click bait.” You don’t know what that term means. For something to be click bait, the title has to be different from the content. The title is the “bait.” In this case, it’s an article about the track list of Tyler’s upcoming album. The title is exactly what the content of the article is.
August 25, 2023 @ 10:42 am
This just goes to show, I picked the one single time the songs names are actually relevant… But seriously, I am asking here because this isn’t your Pitchfork or your Stereogum, but because this is something that is more dedicated to the actual music, and that is why do “here’re the songs names” posts even relevant? To me it’s like someone claiming they are the world’s best Willie Nelson fans, because they know all his songs names, but never heard a note he sang ever. I’m also the one who first scrolls down to the songs at the bottom of the review and listens, then read the review, so maybe I’m the odd man out. I think this information is of least relevance. Give someone the song names from Hard Days Night and from Revolver and, until they hear the albums, they’d have zero idea of how different those two are.
Also, as to the clickbait claim, I’m not saying you are guilty of it, in fact, this is, as I mentioned, the reason I ask this here, rather than in another blog. There I don’t ask because it’s like everything else, they need to churn content to meet a certain posts per day quota that will guarantee their views to satisfy their business model. This is not that type of blog, and so, I wonder what purpose posting the track names has. Also, while it’s true that the title of the article is reflective of the content, I was not having an issue with the title, but with the concept. Again, other sites have quotas, this one doesn’t, so the question remains, why.
To reiterate, this isn’t trolling or trying to say SCM is doing anything “wrong”. I’ve been very curious as to the interest in what, to me, isn’t really relevant information. And I find this blog to be a place I can at least risk scorn by asking it.
August 25, 2023 @ 4:59 pm
Such a weird conversation, I’m not sure why you’re so combative. But since you genuinely seem to want an answer about the relevance, I’ll say that I, as a fan, find these lists relevant. The construction of a good album definitely includes their order, and which song follows which is as much a message from the artist as the lyric or melody, just on a more macro level. So I like this information. I assume I’m not the only one, so it stands to reason the these articles are written for people like me. So, thanks Trigger!
August 26, 2023 @ 3:01 am
I’m not combatant, just curious, thanks for the answer.
August 26, 2023 @ 3:03 am
Thanks, obviously my bad was to pick the one outlier case. I am not accusing you of clickbait and appreciate your in-depth looks into music. I guess my question was basically “does anyone really care about track lists in general” and I guess I got my answer. Thanks again.
August 24, 2023 @ 10:58 pm
Why is this being called an album it’s short enough to be an EP
August 25, 2023 @ 6:03 am
If this turns out to be around 35 minutes it’s an album as were all of those in the past. The advent of cd’s led to much longer releases. Personally, we more often than not this has led to a lot if filler. So if this is “all killer, no filler” it’s all good to me. Of course it may not turn out that way. Time will tell.
August 25, 2023 @ 7:24 am
I definitely agree with the last part. I’d much rather listen to an album and be like “i wish there was more that” than be be like. “it was alright, but some songs could be cut”
August 25, 2023 @ 6:03 am
Because it’s Tyler Childers and that’s just how he rolls. He’s got a case of the Sturgill Simpson weirdness.
August 27, 2023 @ 12:14 am
Yep, massive attention unexpectedly arrived at both of their doorsteps… and the anti-fame, self-conscious weirdness commenced. TC seemed to take a page straight out of SS’s playbook and the mixed results of late (everything post-“Country Squire”) speaks for itself. Hoping for better things from TC’s new album but not holding my breath either. I don’t think this anti-fame phase is over yet.
August 25, 2023 @ 6:35 am
Starting to take his fans for granted IMO.
August 27, 2023 @ 6:39 am
You’re in the smallest minority of his fans(if you even are one) with that opinion.
August 25, 2023 @ 7:51 am
This sounds kinda silly and unserious, but whatever.
August 25, 2023 @ 8:33 am
We got some features on the official email release of the track list
The Travelin McCourys on Percheron Mules
Space and Time lists SG Goodman & Erin Rae
Luke 2:8-10 lists Margo Price, SG & Erin Rae
Interesting twist that I haven’t seen reported yet
August 25, 2023 @ 9:01 am
I just updated the story with this information after Tyler’s publicist sent it out via press release. The reason you probably won’t see this reported anywhere is because everyone already ran their story yesterday when the track list leaked out via Spotify’s Indigo playlist, which is an extremely unusual place for it to leak from, and was probably done accidentally.
This is very similar to the Turnpike Troubadours situation when they announced their album accidentally. It involves the same publicist and publicity company.
August 25, 2023 @ 9:42 am
I didn’t like his last album. His previous 2 albums had some good songs. Everyone will have their own view but I think he, like Sturgill Simpson are over rated. There are better more sincere and genuine artists out there producing better music. I will hold fire on this one.
August 25, 2023 @ 2:56 pm
Cautiously optimistic and really hoping so
August 27, 2023 @ 9:50 pm
I like these songs, particularly Rustin in the Rain, but it’s hard to get excited for a 7-song album with basically no new songs. Of course I’ll listen but it’s hard not to compare this with the output of Charles Wesley Godwin, who appears to be well on his way to that upper tier of popularity.
I’m sure Tyler got his bag, and he deserved one for sure, but man the output since 2018 has been hugely disappointing
August 28, 2023 @ 7:53 am
Saw Tyler again a few weeks back at Radio City. I’m a big fan since way back. Not gonna lie, kind of disappointed with a 7 song effort.
August 29, 2023 @ 10:15 am
I hope it isn’t as bad as country squire, an album not worth capitalizing or putting in quotations. 7 songs? So… An EP. Not an album.
The worst thing he did was get into Sturgill’s drug cabinet