Tyler Rigdon & the Second Arrangement – Everything Changed : Listen

New York’s Tyler Rigdon & The Second Arrangement has announced a new album, My Bakersfield, about a time-traveling cowboy. I “met” Tyler in a Gram Parsons facebook group, and was instantly drawn to his steel-laden, mysto-conceptual work.

Tyler Rigdon is a songwriter based in New York City by way of Flint, Michigan. His latest recording efforts, including the upcoming “My Bakersfield,” are self-described as art-pop-Americana contraptions. While littered with classic country music motifs, his sound owes so much in concept and approach to 70s album-oriented rock and the production methods of Phil Ramone, Lindsey Buckingham, Ted Templeman and Brian Eno to create a warm, somber canvas of sound that surrounds and compliments his interdisciplinary method of songwriting. 

Tyler says,

Everything Changed is the second single and the second track off of Tyler’s upcoming album, My Bakersfield album. It plays a consequential part in the narrative of the concept album that tells the tale of a 19th century cowboy lost in the shafts of space-time. He ends up in 21st century New York and is subject to face the perils of modernity which eventually drives him to confront his own spirituality, mortality, and understanding of purpose. “Everything Changed” documents his first steps into our time, as he recites in verse his old life that he misses and apprehensively steps into his role as a New York nine-to-fiver.

My Bakersfield is out March 26th.