William Tyler’s latest release, “Impossible Truth”, was born on tour as he was reading two books with an odd kinship while on long and lonely Midwestern drives.
These books were Barney Hoskyns’ Hotel California and Mike Davis’ The Ecology of Fear.
Both center on the promise and psychosis of southern California, albeit from very different angles.
William Tyler | Impossible Truth
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=jPeWctsA0fE
Hoskyns tackles the naïve and narcissistic Laurel Canyon scene of the early seventies, while renowned social scientist Davis deals with the history of the destruction of Los Angeles, both in real and imagined disasters.
The synchronistic tackling of these tomes inspired Tyler to compose a story rooted in apocalyptic expectation and bittersweet nostalgia. Or as Tyler puts it, this is “my ’70s singer-songwriter record it just doesn’t have any words.”
William Tyler | Impossible Truth Album Teaser
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=hd0Jsyw_JDw
Recorded and mixed at Beech House in Nashville and co-produced by Tyler and Mark Nevers, Impossible Truth features guest appearances from Chris Scruggs, Luke Schneider, Roy Agee, and Lambchop compatriot Scott Martin.
2010’s Behold the Spirit, William Tyler’s first album under his own name, was celebrated by Pitchfork as “the most vital, energized album by an American solo guitarist in a decade or more” and established him as a critical favorite, the picker who, according to his friend and tour mate M.C. Taylor from Hiss Golden Messenger, “connects the dots between Sandy Bull, Richard Thompson, Bruce Langhorne, and Reggie Young.”
William Tyler | Behold The Spirit
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=xSCfz9pXLvw
Impossible Truth will challenge your ideas of what an instrumental guitar record can and should be. As Taylor puts it, “William will worry a phrase—some tangled chordal wormhole—until you are certain it’s all that exists.
He’ll take you over the stiles, he’ll love you up and down, and then he’ll make you cry for the world and what we’ve done to it. Willy T’s got the vampire blues. And there’s only one like him.”
This event is highly recommended by Digital in Berlin! We are giving away 1 x 2 tickets. Just send a mail to win@digitalinberlin.de with “William Tyler” as the subject.
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“Since the devil is gone I mostly feel lonely” presents:
William Tyler LIVE
presented by D/B
Wednesday, 11 September 2013 | 20:00 CET
Monarch | Skalitzer Str. 134 | 10999 Berlin/Kreuzberg
williamtyler.net | kottimonarch.de
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