American singer-songwriter from Lawrence County, Kentucky who writes Appalachian country music — known for Purgatory, Country Squire, Long Violent History, and Can I Take My Hound to Heaven — considered the most authentic voice of working-class Appalachian life in contemporary country music.
Revived authentic Appalachian storytelling in country music — Childers's willingness to write about drug addiction, poverty, and faith in the language of actual Kentucky rural life, rather than the polished Nashville product, made him the leading figure of the Americana/outlaw country revival.
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