Best Appalachia
Released in 2017, "Purgatory" is the major-label debut studio album by Kentucky singer-songwriter Tyler Childers. Produced by fellow Kentucky artist Sturgill Simpson and Grammy-winning producer David Ferguson, the album captures a raw, live-in-the-studio sound. The record blends Appalachian folk, bl...
Country Squire is the second major studio album by Kentucky singer-songwriter Tyler Childers, released on August 2, 2019. The album was co-produced by Grammy-winning artist Sturgill Simpson, marking their second collaboration following Childers's breakthrough album Purgatory. It was the inaugural re...
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a 2009 documentary directed by Julien Nitzberg about the White family of Boone County, West Virginia, including mountain dancer Jesco White. Filmed over roughly a year, it observes several generations amid births, crime, drug use, incarceration, musi...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance. It recounts his childhood in Middletown, Ohio, his family's roots in Appalachian Kentucky, his military service, and his education at Ohio State University and Yale Law School. The book combines family histo...
Self-released debut album (2011) by Kentucky singer-songwriter Tyler Childers, recorded before his wider breakthrough with the Purgatory album in 2017.
