Singer-songwriter Monte Tyler Hampton recently stopped by Live & Local, following the release of his debut album “Southern Gothic.”
Listen to the album and purchase it on Bandcamp.
“I’m just a dude,” Hampton says with modesty. “I’m just a dad, with a kid, who likes music a lot, who decided to finally take some songs in to record.”
Monte Tyler Hampton first picked up a guitar as a teenager and he’d been quietly writing songs ever since – but it wasn’t until last year that he took the step of recording them for posterity.
“You get to your late 20s or early 30s, and it’s a very important phase in life and you’re reevaluating a lot of things,” he says of his decision to head into the studio. “And I was just reevaluating a lot and I was like, ‘you know, I love music, I love doing this. Maybe I’ll try to just get it recorded, make it a little bit more real than just something I do as a hobby in my room.'”
What ultimately emerged, though, was even more real than he expected.
Hampton brought 11 songs to producer Jerry Brown at Chapel Hill’s Rubber Room Studio – and Brown, a stalwart veteran of the Triangle music scene, was so taken by the songs that he reached out to his friends and recruited an all-star lineup of musicians to join the recording.
And so it came to pass that “Southern Gothic” features not just Hampton, but also bassist Robert Sledge (Ben Folds Five), guitarist Joseph Terrell (Mipso), and drummer/keyboardist Joe MacPhail (pretty much any Triangle band you can name) – plus the occasional mandolin assist from Andrew Marlin (Watchhouse).
“I grew up listening to Ben Folds Five, so (just) for that angle alone, it was amazing for me,” Hampton says. “You know, just sitting down and hearing these people play – they’re just amazing musicians and it’s just such a blessing. It was amazing.”
And while the backing band is impeccable, Hampton’s songwriting alone is worth the price of admission. Abandoning convention in the very first seconds of memorable opening song “Car,” the eleven tracks on “Southern Gothic” combine a classic Americana sound with piercing, introspective, occasionally dark lyrics about confronting life choices, major transitions, and death.
“Southern Gothic is a great genre of literature,” Hampton says of the title, “and I also just thought it represented a lot of the themes on the album. I have an interest in that kind of gritty, Southern – you know, ‘something is slightly broken or off beneath the surface.’”
And now that the seal is broken, Monte Tyler Hampton has no plans to stop – especially with the boost he’s already gotten from so many of the Triangle’s leading musical lights.
“Just (getting) that reaction was amazing,” he says of the recording process. “Like I said earlier, I have no clout, I’m just a dude – so it was very refreshing, very nice.”
Monte Tyler Hampton stopped by Live & Local to discuss “Southern Gothic” and play three songs live in the studio: “Car,” “Croutons,” and “Casket.” Listen:
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