‘Catch of the Day’ – Michael Tyler – “They Can’t See” [AUDIO]

Today we turn our attention to an artist who started young...very young. An artist who has penned album cuts for Jason Aldean and LoCash, and a #1 for Dierks Bentley, all before the age of 21.

Michael Tyler is a self-taught singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Thayer, MO, a town of about 2200, two hours south east of Springfield, on the Missouri-Arkansas border. The grandson of the "Father of Country Music" singer Jimmie Rodgers, Tyler started exploring music at age 8. By age 13 had made significant Nashville contacts and expanded his abilities to the point that began sending song ideas back and forth with producer Michael Knox, known for his work with Jason Alden, Trace Adkins and Thomas Rhett.

On the invite of Knox, Tyler came to Nashville went to Nashville to play a show at the

legendary Tootsies Orchid Lounge for their first meeting, right after Knox had been hired by Peermusic Nashville to help restructure their creative department. After watching Tyler play a few shows, Knox offered the young songwriter a contract with the publishing company. While at Peermusic, Tyler wrote "Laid Back" which appeared on Jason Aldean's 2014 album Old Boots, New Dirt, two songs for LoCash's most recent album The Fighters, and his crowning achievement to this point, co-writing Dierks Bentley's recent #1 hit, "Somewhere on a Beach".

With a strong songwriting foundation, Tyler, with Knox as his producer, has begun working on his debut album, and we have the second single from that project in our spotlight today. Michael Tyler and "They Can't See" is today's Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you're gonna want to hear it again.