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Tyler Hilton with Curtis Peoples

Presented by 3rd and Lindsley Bar and Grill at 3rd and Lindsley Bar and Grill

September 17, 2011

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There was a time when Tyler Hilton wouldn’t be caught dead playing pop music. The son of an electrical contractor and a teacher, Hilton grew up in a musical family in the California desert. “My dad’s side are all musicians and my mom’s side too. My grandmother was a wonderful piano player. Her father had his own radio show, so I grew up around lots of music,” Hilton says. Growing up in Palm Springs, there wasn’t much to do, so he naturally took to playing guitar and singing at a young age. “The amount of time I had to work on music was immense,” Hilton says. “Especially in the summer because you don’t go outside. It’s like being snowed in with heat.”

Hilton moved to Los Angeles and released a self-titled independent album in 2000. He also indulged his other passion, acting, by appearing in The CW’s One Tree Hill and the indie cult favorite Charlie Bartlett, and playing Elvis Presley in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. (Hilton’s songs have been included on the Grammy Award-winning Walk the Line soundtrack and on all three of One Tree Hill’s popular soundtracks.) Hilton signed with Maverick Records and released The Tracks Of Tyler Hilton in September 2004. “I wrote all those songs when I was still in high school,” he says, “and I was very impressed that the songs I wrote while I was doing homework ended up being released on a major label. That was really exciting to me. I could have written those kinds of songs again, but I wanted to do better. And I think my new album is better.”

Indeed The Storms We Share is huge leap in the evolution of this young artist whose goal was to release a record that simply made people smile. “There is so much to be bummed about; I totally understand that,” Hilton says. “I’ve felt it and I get it, but I wanted to move beyond it. I would love to give people a tool to wade through all the bad times and make them feel really happy. Maybe that’s naïve to say, but I would love it if people listened to the songs and were inspired to do things that they didn’t think they could do. That would be my ideal.”

Also performing: Curtis Peoples