Tyler Childers Opens Up 2023 Tour By Closing Out Two Step Inn
The most recent Tyler Childers album Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? has already fallen below his 2017 album Purgatory, and even his 2019 album Country Squire in current consumption, despite arriving as a 3-disc, 24-song set, and some regarding it as their favorite. But even though other long-time Childers fans regard the latest release as a little deflating or perhaps as a glorified EP, it hasn’t impinged on the appeal to see him live whatsoever. If anything, that appeal has only grown, and Tyler’s 2023 tour sold out as fast as Taylor Swift’s.
Childers played a few shows in Europe earlier this year, and a warmup theater show in New Orleans late last week. But his first big show on the tour was on the massive stage of the Two Step Inn Festival in Georgetown, TX, just north of Austin, where he was booked to be the festival’s Sunday night (4-17) headliner. Unless you’re one of those shallow fans that only knows Tyler through “Feathered Indians” and “Whitehouse Road,” you didn’t go home disappointed.
The 2023 Tyler Childers experience comes with an enhanced visual component compared to previous tours. Adorning the stage is a wooded backdrop, a couple of moss-covered boulders to give the facade some depth of field, a taxadermied possum and big horned sheep (who’s begging to be named), along with and old console TV, antique chair, coat rack, and other accoutrements to make you feel like you’re entering an old cabin. The TV was even on during the 90-minute performance, playing some old movie or program.
All of this facilitated a cool moment during the show where Tyler Childers pulled out his fiddle, sat down sideways on the old chair, and did an instrumental version of the old standard “Cluck Ol’ Hen.” Far from the scratchy and rudimentary playing of his 2020 pandemic project Long Violent History, Childers now feels much more confident and adept with the bow, and the Food Stamps behind him stretched out the songs and took it to experimental places as they’re known to do. It was an early highlight of the evening.
But it all started with Tyler playing the Platinum-certified “Lady May” acoustically and by himself, knocking out one of his most adored songs right off the bat. He then worked into the newer religious-inspired material with “Old Country Church” and “Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven,” though the latter Childers has been playing for years, and the former is a traditional.
One thing you definitely got a sense of throughout the set, when Childers played country songs, there was a distinct effort to keep them country, and true to the original compositions. His common covers of Kenny Rogers’ “Tulsa Turnaround” and show closer “Trudy” still definitely got elongated and funky, but songs like “Honky Tonk Flame” and “I Swear to God” were served straight.
Childers doesn’t talk much on stage. But he did mumble out a story about having been in Montana a few weeks ago, and then returned to Kentucky just in time for morel-picking season before launching into fan favorite “All Your’n,” which references the edible mushrooms. He also apologized at the end to anyone who didn’t get to hear their favorite song.
If you’ve seen Tyler Childers over the last few years, aside from the stage presentation and the addition of “Cluck Ol’ Hen,” there wasn’t a lot more new that was going on. In fact, when it was obvious that the closer was going to be “Trudy” by Charlie Daniels—which he’s been featuring as his closer since 2019—folks started trying to beat the traffic home as opposed to the night before when Zach Bryan was closing everything out and most everyone stuck around until the very last note of his epic version of “Revival.”
But nobody walked away unfulfilled, unless their wont was “Whitehouse Road,” which has long been retired from the Tyler set. Then similar to Saturday night, a fireworks display burst from behind the massive Two Step Inn stage.
Unlike Zach Bryan who is all aw shucks and relatable, Tyler Childers is much more enigmatic, as is his band that is both understated when need be, and adept and anthemic when called upon. The songs of Tyler Childers have gone from challenging to their mainstream country status quo, to part of the very fabric of this era’s country music legacy, and significantly influential to an entire generation of new performers.
Two Step Inn Saturday night headliner Zach Bryan may have all the momentum at his back and massive sales/streaming numbers to show for it. But he does it from the foundation of the Tyler Childers influence that underpins his sound and approach, just like it does for now a dozen other fast risers who are saving country music in the present tense, fortified by the authentic Appalachia sound Tyler Childers brought forward.
Set List:
1. Lady May
2. Old Country Church
3. Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven
4. Cluck Ol’ Hen (Instrumental)
5. Country Squire
6. Bus Route
7. Creeker
8. Percheon Mules
9. Heart You’ve Been Tendin’
10. All Your’n
11. Purgatory
12. Tulsa Turnaround
13. Triune God
14. Hosefire
15. Honky Tonk Flame
16. I Swear to God
17. Trudy
Big Horn Sheep Name Suggestions:
1. Bighorn McBigFace
2. Clyde
3. Brantley Gilbert
4. Dodge 318 Power Wagon
5. Dolly
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For more coverage of the 2023 Two Step Inn Fest, follow Saving Country Music on Instagram. Full festival recap coming.
All photos Kyle “Trigger” Coroneos
Nancy Norris
April 17, 2023 @ 10:49 am
Wrong. Fourth time to see him. That was a 6/10 and why people were leaving early. I know he doesn’t talk on stage but he felt totally detached from the crowd and his music. His heart was not in it. And you don’t have to put down another performer while writing about another. Do better.
Trigger
April 17, 2023 @ 11:11 am
Whoa. Wrong? I didn’t give this a number grade, but I do think this is a fair and honest review. I mentioned he didn’t talk much, and only mumbles on stage. I mentioned folks leaving early, and the lack of new material. I mentioned the issues with the latest album. I’ve seen Childers a lot of times. I thought it was a quality set, and he didn’t seem more detached than he ever does. But if you feel differently, I totally respect that.
Also, not sure where I “put down” another performer. If you’re referencing Zach Bryan, I thought he did a superb job, and wrote a dedicated review for him too:
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/zach-bryan-launches-2023-tour-at-two-step-inn-fest/
All I said was Zach Bryan is growing from the foundation performers like Childers built. I think Bryan would agree with me on that, and he’s said as much in the past.
Spencer
April 17, 2023 @ 12:54 pm
Honestly gotta agree with you about his newer sets not being as good. So glad I saw him way back in like 2017 or 2018 and got to see Feathered Indians / Ever Lovin Hand / Whitehouse Road / etc. I’m not a fan of gospel music. Just doesn’t do it for me even though I’m a Christian. So when I saw him again most recently in 2021 at Hinterland Music Festival in Iowa I enjoyed his set and sang along, but it definitely didn’t stack up to his earlier shows, or even to the other headliners. Leon Bridges and Avett Brothers were the other headliners and they killed it. Even earlier day acts like Mt Joy, Black Pumas, CAAMP, Khruangbin, and Old Crow Medicine Show had more memorable and engaging sets. New Childers’s music is good, but his shows are very low energy now in my opinion.
2steppinnit
April 17, 2023 @ 5:40 pm
This is the first time I’ve seen him and he didn’t seem low energy at all. If anything, I thought he gave a lot more in his performance than I thought I was gonna get. Unrealistic expectations.
SG
April 17, 2023 @ 11:32 am
Hey Trigger,
Thanks for all you do! Your concert reviews and the great pics. What camera do you use shooting concerts?
Trigger
April 17, 2023 @ 12:17 pm
I use a Nikon D3500. As I always say, I’m not a photographer. I’m a writer that takes photographs. But I’ve been doing it for long enough and with the same basic setup that sometimes I get lucky.
hoptowntiger94
April 17, 2023 @ 11:45 am
It was also a Sunday show. And I’ve been guilty of leaving early when Trudy is the encore. I’ve heard it countless times now and it just doesn’t do anything for me anymore. I wish he’d swap it out of something else at this point.
I’ve commented this before, but it’s worth repeating how the Tyler Childers experience is the live concert and not the recording aspect (similar to the Grateful Dead) and that’s where fans are spending their money. I know he still gets the checks for Purgatory, but he seems to thumb his nose at the rest of the process. This curtailed festival setlist was surprisingly pretty straight forward and left out a lot of never-properly-recorded cult favorites (like “Nose on the Grindstone,” which I contest has been the concert highlight for the past 4 years).
Great coverage (as usual) of both Childers and Zac Bryan.
I don’t know if she said, “hi,” but I got a text from Danielle that she saw you Saturday.
Layne
April 21, 2023 @ 10:42 am
I was as big a Tyler fan as you could find circa 2018. I literally live in the hollow at the base of a mountain at the outer edges of the Appalachians. I thought I’d found “my guy”. That artist who understood the challenges and understood the ups and downs. Quite simply a just appreciated the grit and honesty in the music. I’ve seen him in concert, I bought the albums , and I’m still going to be a fan. But I got to say things seem to be trending in a more jam band / Grateful Dead / Festival type of direction. I would never criticize an artist for his evolution but it’s just starting to look like Tyler might be evolving out of my arena.
hoptowntiger94
April 21, 2023 @ 11:22 am
He might. But the good thing is he kicked open the door for a flood of Appalachian artists. Logan Halstead’s Dark Black Coal comes out May 5th. I haven’t been this excited for an album release since Purgatory. And Tim Goodin just finished recording his first proper album with Tyler’s Foodstamps.
Both of these artists (and Cole Chaney) can tie you over while Tyler is out there evolving.
Cameron
April 17, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
Unless you’re one of those shallow fans that only knows Tyler through “Feathered Indians” and “Whitehouse Road,” you didn’t go home disappointed.
It’s not unreasonable for fans to want to hear the two songs that got them hooked on Childers in the first place. Personally I think he’s a pretentious prick for refusing to play some of the material that won over fans and paved way for him to make a 24 song album of only 8 songs that people ate up even though it was thoroughly underwhelming.
Trigger
April 17, 2023 @ 12:21 pm
Definitely don’t think it’s unreasonable for folks to want to hear those songs. Was only making reference to the people who ONLY know Childers through those songs, so no matter what he plays, they’re disappointed. And they do exist, and are a loud bunch.
Look, I gave “Take My Hounds” a 4/10 rating, and made reference to some of the sameness of the set over the last few years. I definitely understand why folks are frustrated with Childers. I also thought his set last night was really solid.
hoptowntiger94
April 17, 2023 @ 12:35 pm
Tyler is is a “pretentious prick” because he is in recovery and you want him to sing songs with drug references?
Artists change and grow. I think someday Childers will play those songs again. But, not until he his ready.
Subsequently, it thinned out the herd and made his fans and shows more enjoyable.
Neil Youngs Potatoes
April 18, 2023 @ 4:48 am
Even confirmed “pretentious prick” Jason Isbell plays his pre-recovery songs.
hoptowntiger94
April 18, 2023 @ 7:53 am
He may slip in a DBT song like Outfit now and then, but Isbell’s set is 99% post recovery and post Southeastern (2013) – the album inspired about his recovery.
Jjazznola
April 18, 2023 @ 1:02 pm
Isbell totally bores me live. Tyler’s sets are high energy. I don’t get the comparison. Just because they’re both sober?
Angie
April 30, 2023 @ 10:32 pm
Tyler opened his set at Stagecoach 2023 with Whitehouse Road. Maybe he is going to start playing it again.
Morgan Lowder
April 19, 2023 @ 6:45 am
He plays I Swear still so it’s not because hes sober
hoptowntiger94
April 19, 2023 @ 7:09 am
So why do you think he doesn’t play Whitehouse Road or Feathered Indians (his two most popular songs) since he got clean during the pandemic? He does occasionally play I Swear (To God) in concert. I was chalked that up to its playful lightheartedness and crowd participation.
There’s no debating his set list changed after his sobriety and songs his heavy drug references have been omitted. This fact has been well discussed and published for 3 years now. And i’m perfectly ok with it.
Jjazznola
April 18, 2023 @ 12:58 pm
He played 26 songs last Fri night in New Orleans. I did not even give any thought to any songs that he didn’t play. Every song was avwinner. Easily the best show I’ve seen him do so far. High energy, more diverse and the band was on fire. Most artists are not at their best at fest shows due to shorter sets, not their own sound, lack of sound check etc….
Clay
April 17, 2023 @ 12:04 pm
I thought Tyler did a solid set (I left after all your’n) I’ve seen him numerous other times one memorable time at gruene when he was on other substances and hanging out with his fans back by the restroom. Just an all around chill guy in my opinion. Tyler is very similar to Evan Felker, he’s all business, and doesn’t socialize so much on stage as like a 25 year old Zach Bryan who’s only been touring for 2 years and this is still big for him.
Great write up trigg, independent music is THRIVING.
Jjazznola
April 18, 2023 @ 1:05 pm
I saw Tyler last Fri night and he told a bunch of stories. I never heard him so talkative before.
Mike
April 17, 2023 @ 12:49 pm
I saw Tyler and his band live when they came here over to England a couple of months ago. I thought it was an excellent set and probably the best I’ve been to (although I also saw Mike and the Moonpies in a small bar a couple of weeks ago and they blew me away).
Aside from the big-ass ram you photographed, it seems like it was much the same experience for you as it was for us here (though the only fireworks in London were when Tyler stopped ‘Country Squire’ mid-song to break up a fight that was going on in the crowd).
You’ll probably be disappointed to hear that there were a lot of obnoxious shouts for ‘Whitehouse Road’ even here in England. It seems that there’s a lot of negativity around Tyler for various reasons (not playing certain songs, the gospel/experimental stuff, etc.) – if anyone’s interested I wrote my own review of the London set (linked in my name) which tried to address this while still paying tribute to the fact that it was still a cracking night.
I suppose all I want to say is that there’s a special artist here and I for one would rather be thankful for the great things he makes happen rather than wishing things would play out differently. I’ll never forget everyone in our 800+ crowd singing along to every word of ‘Shake the Frost’.
Trigger
April 17, 2023 @ 3:27 pm
I’m with you Mike. I was walking through the crowd for both Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan this week, marveling over the many fans singing along to tall of the songs, and there’s clearly a reason these guys are headlining festivals and playing massive venues. Somebody likes them. But then you go online and most of what you see is negativity. I think there are two reasons for this. First, the biggest adversity to independent music is success. As soon as you get on top, you’re no longer “cool” and people come at you. Also, the kinds of folks who would read online reviews like this tend to be more critical people. I have seen Tyler Childers play perhaps a dozen times now and I watch tons of live music. I can understand if you wish he’d play this song or that song, but it was a great show and you really have to seek something out to complain about as opposed to choosing to enjoy yourself.
Mike
April 17, 2023 @ 4:26 pm
I agree with all of this – it’s great that you have this perspective. Also, people have a lot of hope invested in Tyler and quite naturally get startled if they feel he starts to stray. I suppose it’s a catch-22 of success: people like your songs and so a large number of them want to hear them again, rather than hear what other songs you might have.
Personally, I’d be more worried if Tyler Childers was going up there all the time singing ‘Whitehouse Road’ and performing a jukebox parody of himself rather than doing his own thing. I imagine his creativity would quickly become stale. Instead, he’s walking along unusual paths – that’s exciting to me, because it suggests he might find some new and interesting stuff there, stuff that wouldn’t even have occurred to those who want to keep him in line with their own expectations.
Euro South
April 19, 2023 @ 3:27 pm
It’s a shame he hasn’t found a way to channel that creativity into recorded material as compelling as Purgatory was.
baron85
April 19, 2023 @ 9:19 am
I’ve seen Tyler a number of times through the years, from tiny venues in WV to much bigger venues elsewhere. After Purgatory came out, his crowds were some of the worst I’d experienced. Just a weird, hostile vibe overall. Artists grow and change. There was a darkness to his shows, and if he’s shed some of the songs that made him famous to move beyond it, then more power to him.
Travis
April 17, 2023 @ 2:59 pm
Alright, we got the Zack and Tyler coverage, where’s the review of Diplo’s set! 😉
Mel
April 17, 2023 @ 6:20 pm
“Tyler’s 2023 tour sold out as fast as Taylor Swift’s.” 🤨 Is Tyler playing 5 nights at Sofi Stadium too!?
Trigger
April 17, 2023 @ 6:32 pm
Only Taylor Swift fans would find this comparison offensive. Of course Tyler Childers isn’t as big as Taylor Swift, and of course Tyler Childers isn’t playing as big of venues. That’s why nobody should ever take it as a slight against Taylor Swift.
63Guild
April 17, 2023 @ 7:47 pm
Feathered Indians has become this generations Wagon Wheel, every local band covers it. I’m not complaining that it’s not being played as much by Tyler
Ian
April 19, 2023 @ 6:02 pm
That’s funny, I heard a guy play it at an open mic not long ago. I also heard this methed out drummer who sings like Cartman (he mostly plays AC/DC and Rob Thomas covers) play wagon wheel, and he said it was “a Darius Rucker song originally done by The Black Crow Medicine Band”! I can’t wait until he gets a hold of Feathered Indians! What butchery will behold us!
63Guild
April 19, 2023 @ 6:07 pm
God bless your ears when he does get a hold of that if you have to hear it, though now I’m picturing Cartman doing it so thanks for that laugh
Di Harris
April 18, 2023 @ 2:26 am
Yep, cool pictures.
Love seeing the picture of Tyler with the fiddle/violin.
Square Amps
April 18, 2023 @ 10:21 am
I built the TV! It was his pa-paws old tv that he held on to for years and always wanted to do something with it. Tyler found me a few years back on instagram and we made it happen. Its a TV/tube guitar amp combo with a dvd player as well. When Tyler playes his tele he is plugged into the TV as the amp. SquareAmps is my name, I build tube guitar amps out of old radios mainly but have used some other odd stuff as well.
Trigger
April 18, 2023 @ 10:35 am
Super awesome.
Jjazznola
April 18, 2023 @ 12:51 pm
How was his show in New Orleans a warmup show? It was his first US show this year. He played 9 more songs than this show and sure as hell did not act like it was a warmup show. It was the tour opener and he treated it as such. Easily the best show I’ve seen him do so far and most varied nusically. He even played fiddle on Cluck Old Hen. He also seemed more happy and relaxed that ever.
Saddened fan
April 19, 2023 @ 10:35 am
Show sucked, people walking out throughout. Much worse than previous shows I have seen in last couple years and doubt he will have another tour this scale as a result. Shame as he used to be a good artist. Shallow fan? how about uninformed fan boy reviewer, your review is as bad as the show was. Paul Cauthen was great and so was Zack Bryan. Should have had The Last Knife Fighter on the lineup.
Trigger
April 19, 2023 @ 1:40 pm
Beginning this review talking about what a disappointment Tyler’s last album was (it received a 4 out of 10 score here), and ending by saying how folks were headed to the exits early is not exactly “fan boy” behavior. I did think it was a really solid set, but respect folks who found it a disappointment for whatever reason. It’s good feedback of how Childers is being received.
Euro South
April 19, 2023 @ 3:56 pm
I think that sheep is actually Trudy.
Brandon
April 21, 2023 @ 8:14 am
I was at the Dallas show last night. Great setlist and great energy. He opened the show with Whitehouse Road, which was very unexpected. We also had a storm blow through near the end, with hail, so I think it was somewhat abbreviated. He ended the show with his acoustic set and the the band never came back.
johntesi
April 21, 2023 @ 6:12 pm
He played for one hour and eight minutes. Barely addressed the crowd or the possible weather implications.
Crowd alternated between screaming along and talking over him, depending on whether the song has been featured on the Spotify ‘Indigo’ playlist or not.
I’m really glad you enjoyed it, but most people definitely didn’t feel that they got their money’s worth. I was near the front of the GA pit and there was less than zero connection between artist and fans. Even Sturgill at his most sardonic was far more connected to the crowd.
And look, I like the Dead and other improvisational music. This isn’t really that. It’s just low energy with the occasional good show that spreads inconsistent information about whether he’s good live anymore.
Now, Cain’s Ballroom five years ago… THAT was a good show.
Johntesi
April 21, 2023 @ 6:06 pm
Oof, @Trigger I wish you’d been at the Dallas show. It was a mess and I’m very perplexed by the above commenter stating it was good. John R. Miller was canceled with zero public acknowledgement—literally watched the guy pack up his own gear sheepishly while people impatiently waited for updates from the rain delay. Tyler mumbled a few words, played some songs that people were excited to hear and got talked over during every song the very young and fratty crowd didn’t know, then stripped things down to acoustic and left the stage suddenly and with zero acknowledgment of what was happening. It was, bar none, the worst paid concert I’ve ever attended. I get that the weather had an impact on the fans on the lawn, but TC did less than nothing to appease the crowd’s angst, or celebrate John R for giving up his set for the “greater good,” or anything, really.
He played plenty of songs with drug references so this whole sober / gospel fanfic thread needs to die down. I think the dude is either pissed about the direction audiences have trended, or isn’t as much of a country music Jesus as everyone thought he was. It feels like he’s punking us with the stripped down gospel funk and super low-energy shows. He may be sober, but he’s well on his way to establishing a 2019 Turnpike type reputation for himself. With tickets, parking, etc. totaling well over $400 for myself and many fans on Facebook mentioning they traveled to see the Dallas show, we would’ve been better served by either a full reschedule, a cancellation refund, or a “hey y’all, weather looks bad. Thanks for being here. We are going to play our most fun power hour ever to say thanks.”
We got none of that. Check out the Twitter or Facebook posts by the venue to get a sampler of how the fans felt about the show.
On the bright side, I dug his “Time of the Preacher Man” cover. All the bro country dudes talked over it and kept screaming for feathered Indians. I look forward to giving John R. Miller my hard earned money moving forward. This show got a 1/10 from me—even outside the venue’s management policies. These kids using daddy’s credit card to buy tickets and lumpingTC and TT in the same category as Zac Bryan has done a massive disservice to a former favorite artist. He seems to agree. You could visibly see him grimace while playing songs people talked over—and, honestly, the ones where they yelled along like a Jonas Brothers concert. The king is dead, long live the king.
Trigger
April 21, 2023 @ 7:56 pm
Man, I’m sorry you had a bad time at the Tyler Childers show. I wasn’t there so it’s hard to offer my assessment from afar, but weather stuff can wreak havoc on outdoor shows, and everyone has to make due the best they can. It brings to mind Zach Bryan and the snowstorm at Red Rocks. It could have been a disaster, and instead it became one of the more memorable Red Rocks shows in history. But that’s the exception, not the rule.
Tyler Childers has always been aloof with his fans. I think that is some of what contributed to the results of “Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven.” And who knows, maybe he learned that you can’t be a true “artist’ without alienating some of your fans from Sturgill. Or, maybe he’s just not a very personable guy, and when contrasted with Zach Bryan who acts starry-eyed and almost embarrassed to be on stage, it makes Tyler come across as an asshole when in truth, he feels just as awkward as Zach, and just doesn’t know how to express it.
We’re really hard on these headliner guys. Folks on the Turnpike troubadours thread are complaining they don’t shake up their set list enough. Tyler Childers does shake up his set list, and people complain he doesn’t play the hits. He finally plays “Whitehouse Road,” and folks complain because he had to cancel John R. Miller due to weather. It’s hard, but I’m not sure it’s fair to just assume Tyler’s heart is in the wrong place. He was never supposed to be playing venues that big.
hoptowntiger94
April 22, 2023 @ 6:23 am
Holy Heck! I pulled the setlist from the Dallas show. 99.9% of hardcore Tyler Childers fans would’ve killed for this set list!
Whitehouse Road
The Old Country Church
Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
Angel Band
Country Squire
I Swear (to God)
Bus Route
Deadman’s Curve
Creeker
Gemini
Percheron Mules
Time of the Preacher
(Willie Nelson cover)
Acoustic
Follow You to Virgie
Shake the Frost
Born Again
Bottles and Bibles
Nose on the Grindstone
Lady May
Because of the weather, a 6-song acoustic set mostly of Pre-Purgatory songs! And Whitehouse Road (a song he hasn’t played since COVID).
Your beef seems mostly because John R. Miller couldn’t play, the youthfulness of the crowd, and Tyler didn’t talk enough and not about the actual music played.
johntesi
April 22, 2023 @ 10:10 am
I respect the research and dedication! The track list definitely looks good on paper, better even than I remembered. I guess when the whole scenario is so chaotic you can barely focus on the music + the perfunctory feel of the performance, it just doesn’t hit home. For example, I could hardly hear Percheron Mules or Time of the Preacher because the crowd was so disinterested and talkative.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Tyler and first saw him live over six years ago. I love the old school stuff, enjoy the new stuff enough. I’m one of the people who’s glad he doesn’t play Feathered Indians anymore because it will slowly start to filter out the crowd that has taken over his shows.
I guess the reality is you can “shut up and play the hits” and if it isn’t delivered authentically, it will ring pretty hollow for a fan who spent a ton of money to see your show. But for all the people who wanted to scream along to the songs from the ‘Indigo’ playlist, they didn’t really notice either way.
It’s sad when an artist has to start playing to huge crowds that seem to misunderstand their artistic intentions, and that’s what I experienced. It’s not really beef, just a bummer. What’s extra interesting is the people who were streaming from the exits at the Two Step Inn show are the same ones who were talking over all the songs I really wanted to hear on Thursday. It’s an interesting paradox and I suppose eventually more people will notice it and wrestle with it like I am; or they won’t, and he’ll keep getting bigger and bigger and I’ll just feel like a curmudgeon for lamenting the days when people showed up to a concert because they love the artist, not because they demand to hear 5 songs and don’t care about the rest.
hoptowntiger94
April 22, 2023 @ 6:36 am
And just for the hell of it, I went to The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory socials and there isn’t one bad word about Tyler’s performance. On FB, there is 113 comments – mostly are weather related and comment from Clint: “Tyler was great but the venue screwed this one up bad” and a ton of tickets from resale.
There is nothing on all 3 of Tyler’s social media accounts indicating anything other but a great concert like Brandon indicated above,.