Tyler Childers Dispels Rural & LGBTQ Stereotypes In New Video For ‘In Your Love’

Tyler Childers confirmed a new album, Rustin’ In The Rain, due out on September 8 via Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records. The acclaimed singer-songwriter shared the lead single, “In Your Love,” along with a video telling “a timeless love story of two men set in rural Appalachia in the 1950s.”

Rustin’ In The Rain follows Childers’ 2022 triple LP, Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?. Childers spoke about the new record.

“This is a collection of songs I playfully pieced together as if I was pitching a group of songs to Elvis,” he said. “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.”

Lead single “In Your Love” arrived with a music video creative directed by Silas House, with a story idea by House and Jason Kyle Howard. House is the current Poet Laureate of Kentucky, a New York Times bestselling author and recipient of the 2022 Duggins Prize — the largest award for an LGBTQ writer in the nation. Bryan Schlam directed the video starring Colton Haynes and James Scully.

House further detailed the video for “In Your Love”:

“As a gay teenager who loved country music, I could have never imagined seeing myself in a video. That visibility matters. There have always been LGBTQ people in rural places and finally we’re seeing that portrayed in a country music video. Tyler and I both felt the attention to detail about rural life was very important, so we made sure that the house and the people looked realistic for the time period instead of the stereotypes of country people that have become so ingrained in the public consciousness.

“We used our own family pictures as references. We wanted to tell as complex a story as we could in four minutes, not only about a gay couple, but also about rural people. We wanted to show their joy and their sorrow—all the things that make up a complex life. Too often simplistic notions are pushed about both rural and LGBTQ people, so we did everything we could to make this story as rich and layered as possible.”

Watch the video for “In Your Love” below:

Tyler Childers and his longtime band The Food Stamps — pedal steel player James Barker, bassist Craig Burletic, guitarist CJ Cain, drummer Rodney Elkins, keyboardist Chase Lewis and guitarist/fiddler Jesse Wells — also announced a two-night New Year’s stand set to take place at Lexington’s Rupp Arena in Tyler’s native Kentucky. Check out the singer-songwriter and his band’s full tour routing and ticket info below: