Nashville is iconic for the American guitarist it breeds – after decades of pumping out golden icons it appears it is in the city’s blood to put forth the talents of celebrated musicians. Musicians we know and often celebrate – Johnny Cash, The Black Keys, the likes of Waylon Jennings and Patsy Cline… the names continue in a full and comprehensible list of sheer musical genius.

Perhaps it makes sense then that this particularly charged city has brought forth a new name, a young (and very American named) solo artist known as William Tyler.

As a mere thirty-three year old, Tyler demonstrates what it is to play the electric guitar. After taking his stab with a band in his very early twenties Tyler found himself pumping out solo material in 2010. In a short amount of time Tyler’s first LP Behold the Spirit released via Tompkins Square incorporated the lines of soul, rock country and the electric.

As an accomplished fingerpicking, hymn loving, jack-of-all-trades, Tyler brought forth a melodic circuit of complex tonal variations and tantric clarity. His skills and patience are the combination for dynamite – with the wily opener “Terrace of the Leper King” off debut effort to the 10-minute electric solo track “Country of Illusion” (take that for a name) off his 2012 live album Elvis Was a Capricorn it is clear Tyler is full of energized craftsmanship.

This year’s sophomore release Impossible Truth (via Merge Records) has Tyler taking emotional devotion to a heightened level of understanding achieved through devastation. As Tyler gallops through the facts of life he does so with steel fingers. It’s clear he considers humanity all children of God. Take the lyrics, “until you are certain it’s all that exists, he’ll take you over the stiles, he’ll love you up and down and then he’ll make you cry for the world and what we’ve done to it,” and you’ll see that Mr. Tyler might in fact have the vampire blues. That overarching understanding of glory and pain, the thematic nuances in literature of a protagonist who is both a moralist and a nihilist. All this lies in the hillbilly devotion of Tyler’s music making.

This fall has Tyler on the European touring circuit. After four shows in the mid-west he heads to the Netherlands as he is on the bill for Utrecht’s Ekko Festival and then jumps to the UK for classic End of The Road Fest. After a month in the UK he will be off to Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands. It seems William Tyler is a man in demand. The very man we’re demanding come back to the states after his European getaway so we can enjoy his intentional ways not just in our room, but live.