Ty Myers Channels Muscle Shoals Soul on New Single “Message to You”
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Ty Myers doesn’t ease into the new year, he slips in quietly, sits with his thoughts, and lets the truth do the talking.
With “Message to You,” the rising Texas-bred songwriter opens the next chapter of his story, offering the first taste of his hotly anticipated sophomore album, Heavy On The Soul, due March 27 via RECORDS Nashville/Columbia. The song arrives not with fireworks, but with a slow-burning glow, the kind that lingers long after the lights go out.
Appropriately, the song was born in the middle of the night. While in Barbados, Myers woke up with a melody and a feeling he couldn’t shake. Twenty-five minutes later, the song was written. Then he went back to sleep.
“When it pours out, it just pours out,” Myers says simply, an offhand remark that belies how rare that kind of clarity really is.
That raw, unfiltered instinct pulses through “Message to You,” a blues-soaked country confession that feels handwritten and hand-delivered. Recorded at the legendary FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the track carries the weight of the room’s history without being crushed by it. Instead, Myers lets the song breathe, surrounded by an elite cast of session players who understand the power of restraint: guitarist Tom Bukovac, steel guitarist Bruce Bouton, bassist Mark Hill, and keyboardist Gordon Mote, all working in quiet service of the song. Longtime collaborator Brandon Hood keeps the production sparse and deliberate, allowing every note and every doubt to land.
The song opens in a place of isolation and unraveling. Myers’ vocal arrives weary but tender, admitting distance, vice, and longing in the same breath: “It’s been so long since I’ve seen your face… I’m down to my last cigarette.” It’s not pretty, and it’s not meant to be. This is the sound of a man alone with his thoughts, trying to quiet the noise long enough to say something honest.
But what makes “Message to You” linger is its turn toward devotion. As the steel guitar shines and the rhythm simmers just beneath the surface, Myers transforms self-doubt into resolve. He doesn’t promise perfection, he promises effort. He promises to try. In a genre often crowded with grand gestures, that quiet vow feels radical.
In just three minutes and thirty-seven seconds, Myers delivers a song that feels lived-in and soul-deep bluesy country with grit under its fingernails and heart in its chest. It’s the kind of track you don’t just replay; you sit with it, letting it mirror back your own late-night questions.
“Message to You” isn’t chasing trends or radio moments. It’s chasing connection. And if Heavy On The Soul lives up to this opening statement, Ty Myers isn’t just kicking off a new year of music, he’s staking his claim as an artist built for the long haul, with many years, and many truths, still ahead of him.
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