Meet Ty Myers, Gen Z blues guitarist turned TikTok country heartthrob
Briefly

Ty Myers is an 18-year-old singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas who sports several tattoos, including an armadillo he plans to embellish with a red bandanna and Willie-style braids. His 2025 debut album, The Select, pairs bluesy guitar riffs with low-slung soul-rock grooves and references vintage influences. The waltz-time track "Ends of the Earth" has amassed more than 70 million Spotify streams and is rising on country radio. Myers built his audience through TikTok after "Tie That Binds" went viral, and concert footage shows many young fans singing along. His recent single, "Through a Screen," is a '70s-style ballad about online romance.
His 2025 debut album, "The Select" - its title nods to the Parisian brasserie from Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" - puts bluesy guitar riffs against low-slung soul-rock grooves, as in the twangy "Let 'Em Talk" and the waltz-time "Ends of the Earth," which has been streamed more than 70 million times on Spotify and is slowly moving up the country radio chart.
Yet the singer has built his growing audience the new-fashioned way. In 2023, not long after he started posting music online, his song "Tie That Binds" went viral on TikTok; these days, the platform is filled with videos of teenage girls, many even younger than Myers, screaming along with him at concerts like the one he played this last weekend after a Royals game at Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium.
Read at Los Angeles Times
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