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By the time it got to the end of the chorus and I heard the way the lyrics flipped and the whole song came to life, I immediately knew I had to have the song.” ‘As a songwriter, always write the best song you possibly can, but as an artist, always record the best songs you’ve ever heard.’” When Tyler heard a demo for “The Difference” near the end of a marathon listening session, “I was immediately hooked. In addition to reflecting his feelings about the woman who would become his wife, it also gave Tyler a chance to take some advice Garth Brooks gave him when he first came to Nashville. “The Difference,” one of only three songs on the album Tyler didn’t have a hand in writing, also helps set the tone for his debut. “I wrote it imagining if something ever happened that led to Sabina and I not being together,” he says, “wondering what it would be like being with somebody else and comparing every single thing to her.” “Here With You” envisions a future Tyler would just as soon never experience.

“Sometimes an Indie/Alt-Rock angst creeps into my music, and that song embodies it.”

“We thought, ‘We’ve already written a song about finding love let’s write the anti-love song,” he says. The same trio wrote “Still Love You” - which Tyler thinks of as “the polar opposite of ‘Real Love’” - the following Valentine’s Day. “When it’s real, it finds you.” They must have tapped into some magic that day: “Everybody that wrote that song is now married.” “When you’re looking for love, you’ll find all the wrong people or mess things up because you’re trying too hard,” Tyler says. Tyler wrote the song shortly after he got engaged, along with Andy Albert, who was about to pop the question to his girlfriend, and Rimes, who was already married. “Real Love” has the throwback sway favored by R&B groups like The Temptations. “It’s crazy that we were calling the album TWO THOUSAND MILES, and my producer and I finished the album 2000 miles apart, as well,” Tyler says. Other tracks, including “Real Love” and “Still Love You,” were completed with participants on opposite sides of the country. The final album cut for the track was recorded in the spring of 2020 during the coronavirus sheltering with each musician contributing parts while sequestered in their homes in Nashville and Los Angeles. It’s appropriate that TWO THOUSAND MILES begins with “Feels Like Home,” a sing-along anthem with an Irish flair inspired by a visit to a Dublin pub. Recorded primarily in Nashville with producers including Lindsay Rimes, Michael Knox, Big Machine Label Group President/CEO Scott Borchetta and Julian Raymond, TWO THOUSAND MILES features the singles that already have earned Tyler more than 200 million streams, as well as several new tracks, including the rousing hit “Feels Like Home.”

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TWO THOUSAND MILES completes the introduction of a singer who has won over Country fans with diverse singles like “The Difference,” “Leave Her Wild” and “Rather Be Us.” A singer that Rolling Stone Country says is “rising quickly through country’s mainstream ranks, unafraid to fill his music with R&B vocal runs and modern-rock aggression,” Tyler has toured with Brett Young, Justin Moore, LANCO and Dustin Lynch, plus shared bills alongside Sam Hunt, Brett Eldredge, Cole Swindell, Dan + Shay and more. It was clearly the obvious title for the first official chapter of my career.” “Almost every song that came into this project was inspired by that crazy grind and making that relationship work. “Between Sabina, my record deal, and the road, my life has been a constant four-year back-and-forth between both places,” says the Northern California native who was named a 2018 CMT Listen Up artist on the strength of his GOLD-certified breakthrough single, “The Difference.”

More specifically, it signifies the door-to-door distance between the apartments he and actress Sabina Gadecki, whom he married last September, share in each city. The title references the stretch between Nashville and Los Angeles, as well as Tyler’s two great loves - the dream of his career and his biggest muse. Tyler Rich decided to bring the issue front and center on his debut album, TWO THOUSAND MILES, released via The Valory Music Co. It’s something every touring musician learns to deal with when it comes to relationships.

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