Americana Music Magazine – Bluegrass, Roots, Folk, Blues, and Old-Time
Dayton Ohio native, guitarist, Tim Tye, has been honing his music craft since his high school days. A fan of Americana traditions, his style leans hard in that direction, as evident on his first three albums; Dark Stretch, A Few Good Years, and the third project, Last Hope For The Modern World.
“Like most musicians, when I was in high school, I got a guitar,” Tim recalled. “I was in a few bands through out that time as well.” As life often goes, priorities shift, and for many, adult life calls. Tim went off to school to become a lawyer. “I always kept a guitar, and kept writing songs,” he said. “Then in 2009 I met a guy who told me that he had just recorded an album of original songs. I thought, ‘man, I’ve got a lot of original songs, maybe I ought to look into this.”
Pursuing conversations uncovered another musician or two, and a sound engineer. “At first, I was just going to record a few songs, but before I knew it, I had 11 in the can,” Tim remembered. “So I packaged them up and issued, Dark Stretch Of Road.”
Tim had so much fun, he did it again, and then, he did it again. “And, we just dropped another one, Just Before Dawn, which, to some extent, is a compilation of older stuff, and then new stuff that’s never been on an album,” he said. “It was just a thrill to hear my stuff be professionally performed.”
“The first two, honestly, I just sent them to friends and handed them out – I didn’t really do very much to promote them. Then I got put in touch with MTS Record, and Mike Stover began pushing my material out to his various outlets. I submitted my albums to the ISSA Awards in Atlanta and the Jose Awards – they were both nominated for album of the year! I never thought I’d be at the Grand Ole Opry as a nominee,” he said.