Country Singer Returns with a New Album and a Queer Love Story

Tyler Childers will release a new album, Rustin’ in the Rain, on Sept. 8. The video for the record’s first single, “In Your Love,” depicts a love story between two miners. Childers’ friend and collaborator, the writer Silas House, says that he wanted to show that stories like this “are part of the story of Appalachia, too. These are human stories, not political stories.

Via NPR:

As he announces his new album, Rustin’ In The Rain, coming out Sept. 8, Childers is determined to make his perspectives clearer than ever. The video for “In Your Love” (directed by Bryan Schlam) features gay Hollywood stars Colton Haynes and James Scully as two miners who build a life together in a Kentucky holler. It’s a bold move for a musician whose fan base crosses lines of identity and political belief. Childers and House recently sat down with me in Nashville to talk about their friendship, representing rural life in their art and the glory of the ’90s country music videos that inspired their collaboration. House described their motivations, and the point behind Childers’ allyship, succinctly: “The antidote to shame is seeing yourself in the world.”

Watch it below.