Not that he’s looking to throw an industrial strength pity party. But happily ever after is still what keeps you going after it.”

“I have a lot of heartbreak ballads, because I think there’s a lot more heartbreak than happily ever after.

“I could sing you heartbreak ballads for over an hour and a half,” laughs the easy-talking Farr. It falters just a bit, buckles and throws unspeakable pain wide open without going for melodrama as he transforms the joke into a punchline that is the hero’s life. One listen to “A Guy Walks Into A Bar,” Suffer’s lead single, is to hear the tension, the exhaustion and the devastation that comes with a stiff upper lip. With a resonant tenor that has a powdery bottom and a warm center, Farr heats up difficult emotions and peels back what most men barricade behind bravado. On Suffer In Peace, the son of a Garden City, Missouri farmer opens his veins and examines the pain that comes from being truly engaged with living.įrom the wracked hangover of what you don’t see coming in love “Withdrawals,” the smoky acoustic “I Don’t Even Want This Beer” or the spare run-from-the-memories title track, the classically-trained vocalist knows that love isn’t just hard, it’s risky. Tyler Farr’s a thinker, an observer of the human condition, a man in the middle of a surging testosterone country movement in today’s Nashville who insists on digging a little deeper, getting a little realer and owning how hard it can be. “You know you want to be in love, but that’s a tricky thing to find.” “Maybe I’m addicted to pain.What used to be, what’s gone.īut it’s hard to explain, though everybody knows it.

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