At just 18 years old, Ty Myers is already living the kind of life most artists spend decades chasing.
There are the sold-out tours. The platinum records. The late-night television debut. And now, the arrival of his deeply personal sophomore album Heavy On The Soul, a 17-track project that reveals the emotional instincts driving one of country music’s fastest-rising storytellers.
But when Celeb Secrets caught up with the Texas-born singer-songwriter ahead of the album’s release, Myers wasn’t focused on the hype. If anything, he sounded like someone who’d been holding onto a secret for far too long.
“I can’t wait,” Myers tells Celeb Secrets. “The way this works now, you’ve gotta tease songs forever. I feel like I’ve been holding onto it for forever, and I just want everybody to hear it.”
That anticipation makes sense. After all, Heavy On The Soul arrives in the wake of his breakout debut The Select, the project that introduced Myers as a guitar-slinging storyteller with grit far beyond his years. But rather than chasing the same formula that delivered platinum hits, Myers leaned into something deeper — something rooted in feeling.
And listening through the record, that emotional honesty is exactly what makes it resonate.
From its opening moments, Heavy On The Soul reveals an artist expanding his sonic palette without losing the raw authenticity that made fans fall for him in the first place. The title itself hints at the musical direction Myers wanted to explore.
“For me, I really wanted to take a soul and Motown route for this record,” he explains.
It’s a direction that traces back to childhood car rides between two musical worlds.
“My dad played the traditional country,” Myers says. “But when I was in my mom’s car, she was playing Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and The Temptations. That was my first time realizing there was so much more out there.”
That duality — country storytelling wrapped in soul, blues, and Southern rock textures — gives the album its identity. Tracks breathe with warm instrumentation, gritty guitar tones, and a vocal delivery that carries the kind of emotional wear you’d expect from someone twice his age.
And it all came together in a place that practically hums with musical history. Recording at FAME Recording Studios — the legendary room where soul icons once cut timeless records — gave the album an atmosphere you can almost hear through the speakers.
“You walk in and you can feel it,” Myers says. “It almost feels like a museum at first. But then you start making music and it just comes alive. It’s my favorite place I’ve ever made music.”
That reverence for sound and space is evident across the album’s production. The instrumentation never overwhelms the songwriting. Instead, it lifts the stories higher. And those stories hit hard.
Perhaps the most impressive part of Heavy On The Soul is just how personal it feels. Myers wrote 11 of the album’s 17 tracks completely on his own — a rarity in today’s collaborative-heavy songwriting culture.
For him, that solitude is where the real emotion lives, rather than just sitting down and forcing inspiration.
“There’s something about solo writing that is just untouchable anywhere else… the connection that you get to the song is unlike anything you’ll get writing with six other writers,” he says.
“It’s not like, ‘What can we write today?’” Myers continues. “It’s more like I have something inside of me and it just comes out. I can’t help but write it down.”
That instinctive process is what gives the album its most powerful moments — the kind of lines that feel lived-in instead of manufactured. And at times, those moments arrive in the most unexpected ways.
Take “Message to You,” one of the album’s most emotionally vulnerable tracks. Myers wrote it at 3AM while on vacation. Half-asleep, guitar in hand, he began piecing together the lyrics.
“I woke up and just had this feeling I needed to write. I didn’t even know what about,” he recalls. “My sister came in and asked why I was playing guitar at three in the morning. I told her, ‘Just go away. I’ll play quieter.’”
The result is a song that captures the push-and-pull of loving someone while living life on the road — a theme that feels particularly fitting for a young artist whose career has exploded almost overnight.
One of the album’s standout moments arrives early with “Morning Comes,” a smoky, R&B-tinged slow burn that tells the story of an after-hours romance destined to end with sunrise. What makes the track especially compelling is that the story isn’t autobiographical. Instead, Myers approached it like a songwriter crafting a film scene.
“I kind of had this big city love story in my head,” he tells us. “Like a New York type of thing.”
Working with songwriter Scooter Carusoe, the pair chased the lyrical thread line by line.
“We wrote the first line and looked at each other like, ‘Okay… we have to chase that,’” Myers says.
The result is one of the album’s most cinematic tracks — the kind of song that lingers long after the final note fades.
If Heavy On The Soul marks Ty Myers’ sonic evolution, his collaboration with Marcus King might be the album’s clearest signal that he’s serious about the direction he’s heading. King, who is known for blending Southern rock, blues, and soul with blistering guitar work, feels like a natural creative match for Myers’ growing fascination with roots-driven sounds. And when the opportunity to work together came up, Myers didn’t hesitate.
“It was crazy,” Myers says of linking up with the acclaimed guitarist and songwriter. “I’ve been a fan of Marcus for a long time, so getting to work with him was really special.”
“Two Trains” not only adds star power to the record, but deepens the album’s musical identity. King’s influence brings an extra layer of grit and authenticity to the project, reinforcing the blues and soul textures Myers leaned into throughout the album.
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While Heavy On The Soul represents a major creative leap, Myers’ career is also expanding onstage in a big way. This year, he joined Luke Combs on the massive stadium run of the My Kinda Saturday Night Tour, stepping into venues that dwarf anything he’s played before.
“That’s the biggest stage there is,” Myers says. “You walk in and it just surrounds you.”
But the moment that stuck with him most wasn’t the size of the crowd — it was the challenge of winning over strangers.
“I could see the people who came to see me, but I could also see people who had no idea who I was and came for Luke,” he explains. “I got to give them a reason to pay attention.”
Up next, Myers will make his debut at Stagecoach 2026, one of country music’s biggest stages. And if his excitement is any indication, the performance might bring a few surprises.
“We’re definitely gonna do the big ones,” he says. “But we might throw in one or two new songs and see how they do.”
Still, he admits there’s another moment he’s quietly looking forward to even more — watching one of his musical heroes perform.
“I’m a huge Amos Lee fan,” Myers says. “I’ve never seen him live.”
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After listening to Heavy On The Soul, one thing becomes clear: this isn’t an artist trying to prove himself. It’s an artist discovering who he is in real time. The album moves between heartbreak, longing, freedom, and reflection — often within the same song — and that emotional range gives the project its staying power.
It shows that Myers isn’t chasing trends. He’s chasing feeling. And if Heavy On The Soul is any indication, that instinct might be the very thing that sets him apart in a crowded genre.
Because while many artists spend years trying to find their voice, Myers seems to have found his early. Now he’s just learning how loud it can be.
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