Tyler Halverson

One Liner:  Low-key Americana tunes with very good lyrics

Wikipedia Genre: "Amerijuana" music - country, Americana

Home: Nashville (via South Dakota)

Poster Position: 21
Weekend One Only.
Sunday at 5:25.

BMI Stage.

Thoughts:   The kind of traditional-ish sounding country guy who has a cover image of him lighting a joint and a song called "Mac Miller."  He's new and upcoming enough to be one of the 4,387 artists chosen to put a country-esque song on the Twisters soundtrack (like fellow ACL poster-dweller Re Clay Strays).  In fact, that "Mac Miller" track is his top streamer - pretty smart naming it after a beloved, gone-too-soon artist! - 11.8 million streams.

Also, that cover art is money.  All very clever even when the song has nothing to do with the rapper, other than they happen to be listening to him as they cruise the road.  Really pleasant backing tune that bops along in a catchy way, along with the nostalgia-inducing lyrics of nothing to do and no where to be.  I like it.

In looking him up on Wikipedia, it appears that he: (1) has a twin who plays drums; and (2) was in an American hard rock band from Omaha, NE, called Through Fire, founded in 2015 that had a song reach #29 on the mainstream rock chart.  Or if that is not him it is really freaking weird that two people with the same distinct name would be musicians around the same time.  Because the Grand Old Opry says that: (1) he is originally from Canton, SD (pop. 3054); (2) he got his first guitar in middle school and fell in love with music after a local bluegrass festival; (3) attended Belmont University in Nashville; and then started touring around South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming.  No mention of hard rock band Through Fire.  So, I'm guessing there just happens to be two Tyler Halversons who are good with a guitar and making music.  Freaking weird.

Huh.  Yeah.  Take a quick break from the country stuff and enjoy this wicked run through a take on "Master of Puppets."

Uh, hell yeah, Angry Mr. Halverson.  Would have been infinitely more cool if Angry Mr. Halverson and Country Mr. Alverson were the same dude...

"Beer Garden Baby" is the second biggest streamer, and actually has a video.  10.4 million streams and you get to see that he looks super young.

I like that line - "doncha know, the singer gets a check every rodeo."  Makes me want to go out to Criders' outside of Hunt and watch another rodeo with a few million cold Coors beers in hand.

This Halverson claims to play Amerijuana music, by the way.  Which hurts me just a little.  No albums yet, just singles so far.  I like the randomly loud stings near the end of "Tiffany Blue."  Not as big a fan of "Codigo GoGo," feels like he is trying too hard to fit those words into the tune.  But the new song from the Twisters soundtrack is solid.

A little more of a Red Dirt sound in there.  I really enjoyed the Twisters flick - just a pure summer slice of nervous fun.  I found myself literally biting at a knuckle at one point - it really was a nerve-wracking collection of dangerous moments. Haha, just noticed that they spelled his freaking name wrong in the graphic that plays during the song.  Come on, man.

This stuff is enjoyable, makes for a really nice set of background tunes to a soak in the pool or drafting a boring document.  Looking at his slot in the day is kind of odd though - he's up against pop diva Grammy winner Jess Glynne, touchy-feeling rap/sing Brockhampton guy Kevin Abstract, and Texan rap banger That Mexican OT.  He feels like he ought to be more in the 2pm slot to me (and being on the 21st line of the Poster says the same thing), but I guess the BMI stage shows lower-popularity stuff and he would have made a lot of sense as the bridge between Orville Peck and Caamp before Sturgill.  But Ms. Roan screwed all of that up now...