William Tyler

"Guitarist William Tyler returns backed by an all-star band that notably includes Wilco’s Glenn Kotche and Megafaun’s Phil Cook, summoning a wide range of moods and telling stories without vocals." - Pitchfork (8.0)

"Tyler's record is free and weird, big and wild. In it are expanse, elegy and celebration. Everywhere is wonder." —NPR Music

"Think old blues riffs with a chrome finish — sleek, and, well, modern, a reinvention and re-contextualization that pays stunning tribute to what came before it." —Spin

"...it’s equal parts Bill Faulkner and Bill Frisell." —The Atlantic

"supernal yet powerful instrumental odes to America’s unique landmarks past, present, and waning." —Southern Living

"A virtuosic guitarist who hails from the backwoods of Tennessee, William Tyler represents the possibility of both preserving the past and pushing back against old forms until they yield something new." —Brooklyn Magazine

William Tyler is a Nashville guitarist and composer. He spent years woodshedding and touring with Nashville groups like Lambchop and Silver Jews before breaking away to focus on his own version of instrumental guitar music.

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.”

RIYL: Steve Gunn, John Fahey, Kurt Vile, Hiss Golden Messenger, Explosions in the Sky
TRY: #3, 5, 6

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