{"id":21333,"date":"2026-09-25T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=21333"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:12:12","slug":"christopher-wyze-the-tellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2026\/09\/christopher-wyze-the-tellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Wyze & The Tellers Release New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Wyze & The Tellers Release New Single \u201cTired of Your Low Down Ways\u201d Today<\/h1>\n

Historic New Album Pays Tribute To Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell<\/h3>\n

Watch on Youtube: https:\/\/youtu.be\/t_rhzLIk6Hk<\/a><\/p>\n

MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2013 Big Radio Records artist Christopher Wyze & The Tellers return with their third single, \u201cTired of Your Low Down Ways,\u201d out today. This new single taps directly into the bedrock of early blues while bringing its emotional bite into the present. The track is the latest preview of the upcoming album NAPTOWN BLUES, due October 2 via Big Radio Records and distributed by Select-O-Hits.<\/p>\n

To purchase\/stream: https:\/\/CWandT.lnk.to\/TiredOfYourDirtyLowDownWaysPR<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rooted in the tradition of hard-traveled, working-life blues storytelling, \u201cTired of Your Low Down Ways\u201d carries forward a lyric legacy that has echoed through generations of American music. First recorded in Chicago on December 19, 1928 by Leroy Carr (piano\/vocals) and Scrapper Blackwell (guitar) and issued as Vocalion 1261, the song is widely noted for an enduring line about working through the year and having to \u201ctake Christmas in my overalls\u201d \u2014 one of the earliest documented commercial recordings of a verse that would become a well-used traveling blues line.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to approach this project in a way that felt true to the music Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell created,\u201d says Wyze. \u201cThere are no drums or percussion on the album, and we relied heavily on acoustic instruments, including guitar, bass, and harmonica. Keeping the arrangements stripped down and centered around a single vocal allowed us to capture the intimacy and raw character of those early recordings while still giving the songs our own identity.\u201d \u2014 Christopher Wyze<\/em><\/p>\n

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That \u201cChristmas in my overalls\u201d sentiment would later surface in multiple corners of the blues and beyond \u2014 including Lead Belly (in two 1935 recordings, All Down and Out and You Don\u2019t Know My Mind), and later in versions of \u201cSitting on Top of the World,\u201d notably Howlin\u2019 Wolf\u2019s 1957 Chess recording, as well as Ray Charles\u2019 1950 Swing Time release \u2014 underscoring how a single, plainspoken line can travel for decades and still land with force.<\/p>\n

\u201cTired of Your Low Down Ways\u201d arrives as NAPTOWN BLUES: Songs of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell builds toward its Oct. 2 release. This album is Christopher Wyze & the Tellers tipping our hats to the two greatest bluesmen of their hometown, Indianapolis, Indiana.<\/p>\n

The album featuresChristopher Wyze (lead vocals\/harmonica), Gerry Murphy (acoustic bass), and John Boyle (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar), Recording sessions and mixing took place in downtown Indy at Postal Recording, about 2.5 miles from where Carr and Blackwell first recorded for Vocalion in 1928.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit christopherwyzeandthetellers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Christopher Wyze & The Tellers:<\/h3>\n

Christopher Wyze & The Tellers blend the grit of traditional blues with the storytelling spirit of Americana, creating a sound that\u2019s raw, soulful, and unmistakably their own. Led by frontman and songwriter Christopher Wyze, the band\u2019s music captures life\u2019s highs, heartbreaks, and hard-earned lessons with honesty and fire. Their debut album, Stuck in the Mud, earned international acclaim and won the 2025 Blues Blast Music Award for Best New Artist Debut Album, landing on blues charts around the world. With authentic lyricism, powerhouse musicianship, and an energy that connects across generations, Christopher Wyze & The Tellers are redefining what modern blues can be\u2014real, rootsy, and relentlessly human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher Wyze & The Tellers Release New Single \u201cTired of Your Low Down Ways\u201d Today Historic New Album Pays Tribute To Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell Watch on Youtube: https:\/\/youtu.be\/t_rhzLIk6Hk MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2013 Big Radio Records artist Christopher Wyze & The Tellers return with their third single, \u201cTired of Your Low Down Ways,\u201d out today. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1058,4],"tags":[15179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21340,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions\/21340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}