Multiple Grammy Nominations For Country Song With Music Video Featuring Tragic Love Story Of Gay Miners

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports:

Lawrence County native Tyler Childers leads the way for the Kentucky nominees, receiving five 2024 Grammy nominations, including Best Country Solo Performance for “In Your Love,” Best Country Song for “In Your Love,” Best Country Album for “Rustin’ in the Rain,” and Best Music Video for “In Your Love.”

Author Silas House [the current Poet Laureate of Kentucky], a Corbin native best known for books such as “Lark Ascending,” and “Southernmost,” also received a Grammy nomination for Best Music Video for Childers’ “In Your Love,” in which he’s credited as a video producer.

“You all. Wow. Never thought I’d be a Grammy finalist,” House wrote in a Facebook post. “This project (‘In Your Love’) was special from the beginning and we all knew it as we were working on it.”

A Taste Of Country reports:

The video stars openly gay Hollywood stars Colton Haynes and James Scully as two miners who fall in love, ultimately moving away from working for the coal mine companies to working for themselves as sustenance farmers. Themes of Appalachian life predominate in the video.

Though the two men live with the fear of homophobic violence from members of their community, their joy is also represented in scenes where the couple go for romantic picnics, host a dinner party and spend time working their land.

Eventually, tragedy befalls the couple when one man falls ill with black lung disease, aka coal miner’s pneumoconiosis, a common and often fatal affliction among coal miners. The man dies on his front porch, cradled by his partner, who lives out the rest of his life as a widower.

From an NPR interview with Childers and House:

Tyler Childers: [One] reason that I wanted to do this music video was my cousin growing up, who’s like my big brother, is gay. And he graduated from Northern Kentucky, went to Chicago and never came back. He taught me so much about singing; he was my first tough critic. And just thinking about him not having a music video on CMT that spoke to him.

Silas House: I think one of the things that makes Tyler such a great artist and such a great friend is that he’s so empathetic. He wants to tell a story like this because he has friends and family who are members of the LGBT community, and are part of the story of Appalachia, too. These are human stories, not political stories.

Since the video’s release in late July, TikTok in particular has seen countless reaction videos, often from sobbing women and gay men – but also from “outraged” country music fans vowing to give Tyler Childers “the Bud Light treatment.” On YouTube, the clip currently has 7.5 million views, on Spotify the track has 44 million plays.

The #Grammy nominees for Best Music Video:

The Beatles – “I’m Only Sleeping”
Tyler Childers – “In Your Love”
Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For?”
Kendrick Lamar – “Count Me Out”
Troye Sivan – “Rush” https://t.co/uXdtMuHdlA

— Variety (@Variety) November 10, 2023

The #Grammy nominees for Best Country Song:

Brandy Clark – “Buried”
Chris Stapleton – “White Horse”
Morgan Wallen – “Last Night”
Tyler Childers – “In Your Love”
Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves – “I Remember Everything” https://t.co/uXdtMuHdlA

— Variety (@Variety) November 10, 2023



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