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Episode 24: Dixie Trauma Gospel

by Tyler Lyle

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Sharon Hardee Jimenez
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Sharon Hardee Jimenez Enjoy every moment of this special time with your beloved Anna who has been your soulmate since God brought you together in the city of angels - Los Angeles. The Midnight LA is so exciting all of your fans will love the show should they be lucky enough to get tickets on your tour. By now you know angels abound in your holy life. They are there blessing you and Anna everyday. The love you have you are sharing now with an ever growing audience. We are so happy you are our son in law and cherish all of our family life with you and Anna. Merry Christmas and congratulations on a year full of challenges and blessings. Oh holy night the stars are brightly shining ...we listen to your Christmas album every night as your nieces love to hear you sing of this holy season. Mom and Dad LA Favorite track: Children Of The Civil War.
bscheel305
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bscheel305 This was my favorite episode so far! I love Children Of The Civil War, can't wait till I can hear this on radios of passing cars and through the headphones of people on the subway. Favorite track: Children Of The Civil War.
Steven McKenna
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Steven McKenna Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Tyler. Thanks for the heads up on the Midnight tour Sharon. Just watched the set on YouTube from July. Wow! Just bought series on iTunes. Is the next concert at Whisky A Go Go Feb 17th? Want to get tics. Tyler u need to let us when u are in town 😉
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Anna and I arrived in Maui last night. Our first vacation in three years. It’s currently raining outside the Airbnb Anna and I rented in Kapalua, which is why I’m typing this little address instead of sitting on the beach. What I want to say this month is thank you for being a part of two years of The Secret Lair. This is Episode 24, and my offering this month isn’t seasonal or topical in anyway. It’s an EP that I want to release next year, but I may not get to for complicated reasons. It has something to do with another artist wanting to record part of it. Anyway, I wanted it to exist somewhere either way.

It’s been a hard year in a lot of ways. Next year starts an entirely different world for me. I can’t let you in on everything that’s happening until next month, but I can say that there will be five more episodes of the Secret Lair until I retire it, and these five will have a new sort of aim. I started this project a month after everyone relying on me in my music career left. It was the best thing that could’ve happened. The two years I spent as a hermit in Brooklyn writing songs and prose and tinkering with audio production was a reminder that even though I didn’t accomplish everything I wanted, I now know that It’s possible to tend this garden with my own two hands. The irony is that my side project The Midnight, a project that I hardly ever mention on here, just sold out it’s second show to 1,400 people in LA, we signed to a booking company and to an excellent manager the next week. We announced shows in Chicago and New York for next year and sold both out in the first week.

I’ve spent the last ten years of my career insulating myself from excess ambition- keeping my sights high enough to strive for a career in this business but never imagining the kind of success that most people think of. I’ve read the statistics. My dad tried to hit that bar too- till he decided to have me and be a father. It’s a strange and bewildering feeling that after the last two years of solitude wrestling with a quiet voice half feeling drunk on the spirit and half wondering “should I give this up?” that I also just so happen to be the front man of a suddenly popular synth wave duo called The Midnight that is selling out big venues. It’s ground too bizarre to put weight on it.

I have some newer subscribers who are here because they love the Midnight, and to them I say welcome. There is a part of me that loves writing those images. I am large. I contain multitudes: of corn fields and simmering neon mirages. I don’t remember anything about the 80s except The Ninja Turtles and Garth Brooks, but The Midnight is a William Carlos Willams approach to pop lyric songwriting that I look forward to exploring more of throughout my career. Some of the songs released through the Secret Lair will end up as songs by The Midnight. To those who have been on board for a long time, and aren’t a fan of synthesizer music, you guys are very honest with me- you value authenticity and lyrical purity and acoustic guitars, and I want you to know that my records as Tyler Lyle aren’t going away. They are different flavors of ice cream made with the same ingredients, and I can’t wait to make my next folk record. If anything The Midnight takes some pressure off of trying to make the songs sound radio friendly. Having The Midnight frees me to make bolder choices on my folk records. I think each project will benefit from the other, and hopefully, I’ll be able to see you guys out on the road more frequently.

I end the year with a tongue and cheek unmastered record called Dixie Trauma Gospel for your ears only, until the country group decides what they want to do. It’s not very Christmas-y, but the guitars that I didn’t play sound pretty, and anyway, I’m on vacation trying to sit still, trying to replenish, trying to refill the deep well of love that I’ll soon need to draw from. Next year starts an entirely new world for me. New challenges and new joys. But I want to end this one in gratitude. Gratitude to you, who have held onto this unwieldy inner tube tied to a runaway boat for too long. I don’t see you as fans, but as helper spirits that make the work more meaningful, more pressing, more enjoyable. You are the patron that has allowed my music to survive the two year gap between rainfall. You are the encouragement in my inbox and at my shows. You are the reason that I’m (at least as of this moment) plan on surviving the crash of the music industry. Against all odds, this tank still has gas in it. Please stick with me for five more months. It will be something difficult and important, and I’m so excited to spill the beans.

Mele Kalikimaka is how you say Merry Christmas in Hawaiian (they could be lying to me). Thanks for allowing me a month on a planet that is not The Secret Lair. I hope your holidays are warm and bright. If this is a hard time of the year, I wish for you to find your own helper spirits. They exist. Happy Holidays.
Love you guys.

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released December 16, 2017

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