Today's feature focuses on a singer and songwriter from Garden City, MO, about an hour south of Kansas City. An artist who studied voice at Missouri State University, but whose true musical education came when he moved to Nashville, where he went 'red-neck crazy" before learning to "suffer in peace".

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Tyler Farr is something you don't find too often in Nashville; a classically trained opera singer. During his high school years, his plans were more of singing La Boheme and The Barber of Seville than they were of "Country Roads" or "On The Road Again". Farr performed during those years with the Missouri All-State Choir, singing tenor. After his parents divorced, his mother met, and eventually married, George Jones' tour guitarist. It was his step-father that introduced Tyler to country music, and he was immediately engrossed in the music.

After performing in the prestigious OAKE National Choir and furthering his voice studies in college, Farr headed to Nashville after graduation, at the age of 21. It was here that his true country music education began. He landed a job passing out fliers at the legendary Tootsies Lounge, promoting artists performing at the club.

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Farr was then moved up to a bar back position, and was eventually allowed to fill in and play open sets for tips. He would also pick up work on construction sites, parking cars, landscaping, as a short-order cook, as a recreational therapists and working in a half-way house for troubled teens. What ever it took to pay the bills and keep his dream alive. Farr's Tootsie's sets become more frequent, sometimes as many as five enough, so he decided to expand his audience by touring through Georgia, Florida and the southeast.

It was during this touring that fate introduced him to Colt Ford. Ford was in the market for a back-up singer and Farr was looking to get his foot in Nashville's door. As part of his agreement with Ford, Farr was offered the opening slot on the country-rapper's

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tour. It was a tour that taught him a lot, both good and bad, about the country music business. After touring with Colt Ford, Farr continued on the road, opening for Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Lee Brice and Jason Aldean, also performing at festivals, clubs, dive bars and anywhere he could get his music heard.

After releasing his debut EP Camouflage in 2010, Farr's label, BNA records, merged with Columbia Records Nashville, who released his debut album, Redneck Crazy, in September of 2013. The album featured 5 singles, including two top-10 singles ("Whiskey In My Water" and the album's title track) as well as his first #1 single, "A Guy Walks Into A Bar".

Farr's second album, 2015's Suffer In Peace continued Farr's Nashville momentum with the top-20 single "Better In Boots". In between touring and taking doctor mandated time off to recover from vocal problems, Farr is heading back into the studio, possibly to work on a new album for 2017. The first single from his recent studio time is in our spotlight today. Tyler Farr and "Our Town" is today's Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.

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