{"id":7427,"date":"2013-08-06T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2013-08-07T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:29:51","slug":"william-tyler-at-lamar-lounge-thu-71113-oxford-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/william-tyler-at-lamar-lounge-thu-71113-oxford-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"About William Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come See The Man, The Myth, The William Tyler<\/span><\/h3>\n

Live at Lamar Lounge<\/span> on Friday, August 9 (9:30 pm) <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

and In-Store at The End Of All Music<\/span> on Saturday, August 10 (3 pm)<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

by MC Taylor (Durham, NC)<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
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\"williamtyler-1\"<\/a>I met William Tyler<\/strong><\/span> on the Exeter line out of London, and never such an autodidact had I met. He\u2019ll tell you about James Kunstler<\/strong>, about Rudy Wurlitzer<\/strong>, about how\u00a0Michael<\/span>\u00a0Cimino<\/strong> got a raw deal with\u00a0Heaven\u2019s Gate.<\/em>\u00a0We were both far hungover and lugging plenty gear, guitars and records and books, more than we could carry.<\/div>\n
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William Tyler comes from good Southern stock, a Nashville lifer who\u2019s played with Lambchop<\/strong>, the Silver Jews<\/strong>, Bonnie \u2018Prince\u2019 Billy<\/strong>, Charlie Louvin<\/strong>, Candi Staton<\/strong>. People love this man, rightfully so. When you meet him, you\u2019ll feel that compulsion. William\u2019s father Dan<\/strong> came from Mississippi; he wrote songs and lawyered around Music Row in the 1970s and later worked with Eddie Rabbitt<\/strong>, who toted a monkey on his shoulder and smoked grips of weed. Dan was once accosted by David Allen Coe<\/strong>, who chased him with a knife.<\/div>\n
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\"william-tyler-by-pj-sykes-001\"<\/a>2010\u2019s\u00a0Behold the Spirit<\/em>, William Tyler\u2019s first album under his own name, was celebrated as \u201cthe most vital, energized album by an American solo guitarist in a decade or more,\u201d establishing him as a critical constellatory star, the picker that connected the dots between Sandy Bull, Richard Thompson, Bruce Langhorne and Reggie Young. You don\u2019t get perfection with William (I suspect he\u2019d be OK with that assessment); you get brambles and wandering, the wide and deep and arcane path to transcendence. My notes from Liverpool read, \u201cBody impulse\/no thought.\u201d I was writing about William Tyler that night.<\/div>\n
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On\u00a0Impossible Truth<\/em>, his latest long player for Merge,<\/em>\u00a0William takes it further out than anyone has been ready to go. I\u2019m not talking about choice of note; I\u2019m talking about emotional devastation. He gallops as though in steeplechase and then creeps like purple dusk on the Cumberland. He steps lightly, he burns effigy, he comes on with the debt of an angel and we are all children of God<\/strong>. William will worry a phrase\u2014some tangled chordal wormhole\u2014until you are certain it\u2019s all that exists, he\u2019ll take you over the stiles, he\u2019ll love you up and down and then he\u2019ll make you cry for the world and what we\u2019ve done to it. Willy T\u2019s got the vampire blues. And there\u2019s only one like him.<\/div>\n
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I could lay in the far rolling fields of North Somerset and listen to Willy play all day long. What kind of world would that be for me? Better than the one ahead? So call it the Extermination Rag. The Glory Rag. March of the Jokers, you know? A hillbilly devotional with the lateness of dancers. I call it\u00a0Impossible Truth.<\/em><\/div>\n
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(theendofallmusic.com\/william-tyler-in-store-show-august-10th<\/a>)<\/h2>\n

(williamtyler.net<\/a>)<\/h4>\n

(facebook.com\/williamtylermusic<\/a>)<\/h4>\n

(Everything “William Tyler” on pitchfork.com<\/a>)<\/h4>\n
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