Grindstone is an old word for a tool that was used to sharpen cutting edges like axes. When sharpening blades, knife grinders tend to bend over the grindstone, or even like flat down with their faces near the grindstone in order to hold the blades against the stone and verify angle. It can be found in modern day slang with things like "He on his grind" or "grinding". As for the Pills issue, in the hills of kentucky there is an opiate crisis. Everyone out there knows someone who's life was lost to opiates. Meth is creeping in due to higher government regulation of opiates, but fentanyl is getting stronger.
Also grindstone in flour/ grain mills. Wind or hydro could be turned by animal or human power manually. Trudging forward in a never ending circle with your head down as the person turning the gear for the grindstone.
The original saying was from grinding corn or grain into meal and flour. The dust is super flammable so you had to keep your nose to the stone in case you started smelling smoke to prevent explosion/fire
I’m in western WV, near eastern KY (where Tyler is from) and we have a horrible opioid epidemic. The “pills” prescribed in one small town here is usually enough for a very large city. It’s bad. And “nose to the grindstone” is a phrase that means “keep working and keep your nose clean”. Which is what all parents here teach their kids. “Reading, writing & Rt. 23” is another phrase used here - it means, “As soon as you learn to read & write, go north on Rt 23 & get the hell out of here.”
the metaphore "keep your nose on the grindstone" means to work hard, stay close or focus on your work." and stay away from the drugs. this is one of hardest lessons of life even as adults
Keeping your nose to the grindstone is a saying that means keep your head down and do your work. Take care of your business. Also, he literally means pills. All over the country, but especially rural areas, there is a prescription drug abuse epidemic. I’m from Kentucky. Eastern Kentucky, where Tyler is from, has been hit especially hard beginning with coal miners’ injuries being over-prescribed pain pills, causing addiction.
You're hearing the "Appalachian cry" which around here we are familiar with. His name is pronounced Chill-ders. And yes, he's talking about pills. Here in Kentucky where Tyler and I are both from, pill addiction and overdoses has reached epidemic proportions. There's what we call pill-mills everywhere. Many small towns have more pill mills and Dollar Stores than any other business. When you come into these towns, hopelessness settles over you like a blanket. People like Tyler represent our pain.
You have opened up your heart for this mans song and voice...you will love his other songs...Feathered Indians, White House Road and Lady Mae are awesome..no one else like him! Thank you for this reaction...
Oh, by the way. His name is pronounced more like “Chillders “ instead of “Child ers “. I remember on a baseball trip to Florida, during a day off from games. We were all around the pool. Tyler brought his guitar down to entertain us. After about three songs, people were on all the balconies and hundreds around the pool enjoying. Awesome guy! And as Country as can be.
Pills = Opioids. Daddy got hooked on them after he messed up his back. Told his son not to mess with those pills because of his experience with them. 😊 Great reaction!
Tyler Childers is a real treasure that doesn't get played on "country" radio. He comes out of the same tradition as John Prine, which means the Nashville formulaic pop country industry isn't interested.
I’ve been deep diving Tyler Childers reaction vids and yours is probably my favorite! Reacting to not only his voice and the music, but most importantly the LYRICS. Definitely subscribing :)
I'll second what Chris Hall below commented. Appalachian Mountain Region is experiencing a rise in the Meth/opiode/fentanyl plague. I'm thinking Childers himself struggled with substance abuse at one time. Childers is kinda like Dwight Yoakam where they're so unique (they're from the same region of the country). I got to see Tyler Childers this past summer in concert and it was a pretty good show. Cool Reaction though, I'm looking forward to seeing you react to more from Tyler Childers.
"It takes twice as long to build bridges you've burnt". Such a good line. I feel like Patty Loveless "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" is a good bookend for this song. Also about the trials of being born in coal country.
Great reaction, great song, great artist. He has several songs I love. Including a gospel song of his WAY OF THE TRIUNE GOD. If you ever listen to it do it with the official video.
“Out of the pills”. Yes. I think he’s saying don’t do drugs. Keep busy working and don’t use drugs. Popping pills is usually when someone breaks open a capsule and snorts the contents. I think that’s what he’s referring to. Great reaction. I love Tyler Childers. I have most of his records on vinyl. Other good songs: “Follow You To Virgie”, “Whitehouse Road”, “House Fire”, “Shake The Frost”. There’s so many great ones. You really can’t go wrong with Tyler.
The true saying is, “keep your nose to the grindstone”. It means to stay focused on your goals and out of trouble. “Out of the pills” means exactly that. The opioid problems in southern WV and Eastern KY are horrible.
The opioid epidemic in rural communities is rampant, particularly in the working class. His dad became addicted to the pills, and his advice to his son was to work at something relentlessly while avoiding addiction.
“Pills” have ate up SE Kentucky and West Virginia. They call it “Hillbilly Heroin”. It has ruint my hometown of Huntington Wv, streets full of zombies at night. As far as the grindstone…it refers to the everyday struggle or grind that unfortunate people face every day.
You’ve heard people say stay on the grind. It’s changed over the years, a grindstone is what you make flour on. So keep working and stay off pills, aka oxy
From southeast KY right from near his holler. What he's saying is is old man warning him to stay busy and not be snorting pills. It's a HUGE problem back home.
I was shocked recently going back to northern Alabama, prescription drug addiction is a huge problem. They take each others, sell them to each other. Everyone seemed to be on them. I’m 61, I never saw such a thing 😢
Britt my girl there was an epidemic of pills in pike county ky and West Virginia a few years back. Took a lot of lives. Love listening to your reactions
The opioid epidemic started in Eastern Kentucky and other hard labor places. Oxycontin was prescribed as a non-addictive medication because the doctors believed the pharmaceutical reps. A person goes down into the mines, hurts themselves, and they got put on oxycontin creating a rapid epidemic. Tyler is from where I am, cousin to my brother in law, but I've never met him. Would definitely like to, though.
I hear some say they dont like country but i often wonder if they've really dug into it because this is so hard to beat but i do understand because some of its sad but country will always have a special place in my heart plus it was the partial reason that gave us rock n roll
Keep your Nose to the GrindStone means to knuckle down , work hard ... a GrindStone is what's used to grind the wheat to make flour for bread . ( one of the oldest forms of work and examples are found in every early civilisation) it can also be a upright circular stone wheel for sharpening tools and knives etc . And the Pills are pills ( opiates) Tyler has struggled with addiction to pills and Booze for years but is currently clean and sober
Tyler Childers brings the generational pain from the Appalachian culture; and shows it in his voice, unbelievable poverty still, and now an opiate and meth epidemic. Keep your nose on the grindstone means focus on your work, and what’s important. It’s legitimately a tool for sharpening instruments. He’s recently clean from drugs. Chill feed. Listen to Way of the Triune God.
Actual pills.. Opioid addiction is a huge problem. Especially in my part of the country. And his dad in the song most likely has experience with that, considering the line that he messed up his back.
Lotta peeps be on those opiates. That’s what. Probably more than that as well. He is one of my favorites of all time. He doesn’t just sing, he tells you how to be. At least in this one. That’s how I took it.
Tyler Graduated High School with my son. Great young man. He grew up in Eastern Kentucky. The “pills” he is referring to is a huge problem here. So much poverty and despair that it has led to a huge problem with people taking pills to escape. Then after addiction it leads to other terrible outcomes.
Aight girl... its chill-ders... Tyler Chill-ders🤙🍻 amd a grimd stone is what they used to use to make flower/ a stone that is used to sharpen a knife edge👍 and pills is pills/drgs
Quick take - I think this song is a great take on the battle between knowing what to do and actually doing it. I think Tyler picks up on the fact that it is easy to give great and simple advice but much much harder to actually implement the advice. It is a back and forth between a father that has simple advice that, on its own, seems very easy to abide by. The son in the song is really trying to abide by the simple advice but life is preventing him from doing so. It is a very sad reality for people who are in a tough spot in life. They get all the great and simple advice from others, but it is much easier said than done.
I think when he's talking about the grid stone he's referring to the daily grind when everyone ground their own flower at home and was a job few liked so became an old term for work that my grandparents would have used. I've found myself using the terms without realising until I had to explain the terms to my children who explained to me I'm just old
I am completely perplexed by how many people do not understand "keep your nose on the grindstone" means. 😵💫. work hard, take care of yourself and your family. don't drink don't do drugs I am from Sweden and live by these rules. children first.
Keep your nose to the grindstone is an old saying for staying focused. Do the right thing and work hard. That's what it means by keeping your nose to the grindstone
Great reaction, he has tons of great songs! Take your pick. However, he has "Long Violent History" and a video separate from the song where Tyler explains his position on our current culture and his inspiration for the song itself. Perhaps reacting to both in a video would shed light on some very important topics in our world right now. Thanks for all that you do!!
Hello, howdy I am a 61 one-year-old Southerner what is meant by "Keep your nose to the grindstone" means you stay focused on what matters, (Your Job, your life) and don't vote for the wealthy, their liars, and/or the party that promotes their policies. You vote for your economic reality. Every Billionaire represents a policy failure.
I've been yelling for a Tyler Childers reaction for so long! I knew you'd like his stuff. I know you're probably slammed with requests/suggestions, not gonna be too hard on you. "Lady May" (from this same session) is one of his best!
To keep your nose on the grindstone in the UK means to keep working hard …and the first words he uses are “daddy worked like a mule mining Park County Coal, fucked up his back …couldn’t work any more …..I’m from Uk and heard that clearly jeez
Sad but true story Appalachia, Virginia is where the opioid epidemic started. The coal miners spent so much time underground that their bones hurt, and so the pharmaceutical companies came up with these medication to help them with their pain and it was so addictive it spread like wildfire through the region, and that is where the opioid epidemic started. It was targeted just like everything else, the pharmaceutical companies may not have known how addictive it was, but they grow to know and clearly didn’t care because profit over everything. It’s disgusting.
I don't believe that lyric is meant to be taken figuratively. 'Keep your nose to the grindstone and out of those pills". Pills is in reference to the widespread opioid abuse throughout Appalachia.
Grindstone is an old word for a tool that was used to sharpen cutting edges like axes. When sharpening blades, knife grinders tend to bend over the grindstone, or even like flat down with their faces near the grindstone in order to hold the blades against the stone and verify angle. It can be found in modern day slang with things like "He on his grind" or "grinding". As for the Pills issue, in the hills of kentucky there is an opiate crisis. Everyone out there knows someone who's life was lost to opiates. Meth is creeping in due to higher government regulation of opiates, but fentanyl is getting stronger.
Also grindstone in flour/ grain mills. Wind or hydro could be turned by animal or human power manually. Trudging forward in a never ending circle with your head down as the person turning the gear for the grindstone.
The original saying was from grinding corn or grain into meal and flour. The dust is super flammable so you had to keep your nose to the stone in case you started smelling smoke to prevent explosion/fire
The 'grindstone" is for sharpening tools. To keep your nose to it means "stay sharp". Grain is processed with a millstone, not a grindstone.
The phrase refers to the flour mill grindstone. You have to keep your nose to the grindstone because it could catch fire. It's about being diligent.
"There is hurt you can cause time alone cannot heal"---Those that know, know.
He has sooo much great music! Feathered Indians is another beautiful song. ✌️❤️🎸
In my generation the grindstone a common phrase to denote don't get distracted, keep working hard, stay on course!
I’m in western WV, near eastern KY (where Tyler is from) and we have a horrible opioid epidemic. The “pills” prescribed in one small town here is usually enough for a very large city. It’s bad.
And “nose to the grindstone” is a phrase that means “keep working and keep your nose clean”. Which is what all parents here teach their kids. “Reading, writing & Rt. 23” is another phrase used here - it means, “As soon as you learn to read & write, go north on Rt 23 & get the hell out of here.”
Good summary.
Rt 23, straight to Columbus and points north. I'm IN Columbus now meself
Came here to say this!!!
I’m in east TN, on the NC boarder
Amen brother.
the metaphore "keep your nose on the grindstone" means to work hard, stay close or focus on your work." and stay away from the drugs. this is one of hardest lessons of life even as adults
Keeping your nose to the grindstone is a saying that means keep your head down and do your work. Take care of your business. Also, he literally means pills. All over the country, but especially rural areas, there is a prescription drug abuse epidemic. I’m from Kentucky. Eastern Kentucky, where Tyler is from, has been hit especially hard beginning with coal miners’ injuries being over-prescribed pain pills, causing addiction.
You're hearing the "Appalachian cry" which around here we are familiar with. His name is pronounced Chill-ders. And yes, he's talking about pills. Here in Kentucky where Tyler and I are both from, pill addiction and overdoses has reached epidemic proportions. There's what we call pill-mills everywhere. Many small towns have more pill mills and Dollar Stores than any other business. When you come into these towns, hopelessness settles over you like a blanket. People like Tyler represent our pain.
"Hopeless settles over you like a balnket"... that would be a great lyric.
Keep your nose on the grindstone is a metaphor in the south for keeping your head down, staying focused, and working hard.
You have opened up your heart for this mans song and voice...you will love his other songs...Feathered Indians, White House Road and Lady Mae are awesome..no one else like him! Thank you for this reaction...
Feathered Indians, Long Violent History, Lady May, keep listening to this man he is gold
Whyskey Myers “Broken window serenade “
Oh, by the way. His name is pronounced more like “Chillders “ instead of “Child ers “. I remember on a baseball trip to Florida, during a day off from games. We were all around the pool. Tyler brought his guitar down to entertain us. After about three songs, people were on all the balconies and hundreds around the pool enjoying. Awesome guy! And as Country as can be.
Pills = Opioids. Daddy got hooked on them after he messed up his back. Told his son not to mess with those pills because of his experience with them. 😊 Great reaction!
Excellent suggestion, who's ever it was! I never heard this guy. Heartfelt.
Such a great storyteller. Have to recommend his song ‘Shake The Frost’
This guy is awesome, he’s my favorite singer by far his voice is crazy good!
Tyler is my absolute favorite artist all his song are amazing
Just another amazing artist out of eastern Kentucky
Tyler Childers I'm all your'n! You'll love it
Tyler Childers is a real treasure that doesn't get played on "country" radio. He comes out of the same tradition as John Prine, which means the Nashville formulaic pop country industry isn't interested.
I’ve been deep diving Tyler Childers reaction vids and yours is probably my favorite! Reacting to not only his voice and the music, but most importantly the LYRICS. Definitely subscribing :)
Another great Kentucky artist I'm proud to be from Kentucky
I love this song. It's part of my patio afterwork mix 😊 great reaction 💖🦋
keep your nose to the grindstone is to say keep working hard, keep grinding away, don't give up, keep on the straight and narrow
I'll second what Chris Hall below commented. Appalachian Mountain Region is experiencing a rise in the Meth/opiode/fentanyl plague. I'm thinking Childers himself struggled with substance abuse at one time. Childers is kinda like Dwight Yoakam where they're so unique (they're from the same region of the country). I got to see Tyler Childers this past summer in concert and it was a pretty good show. Cool Reaction though, I'm looking forward to seeing you react to more from Tyler Childers.
You liked this song. Should listen to Angel Band Jubilee, by Tyler Childers
"It takes twice as long to build bridges you've burnt". Such a good line. I feel like Patty Loveless "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" is a good bookend for this song. Also about the trials of being born in coal country.
That's not Patty Loveless song but yes
Great reaction, great song, great artist. He has several songs I love. Including a gospel song of his WAY OF THE TRIUNE GOD. If you ever listen to it do it with the official video.
You have GOT to hear Tyler Childers - Angel Band
“Nose to the grindstone” means keeping busy with work.
“Out of the pills”. Yes. I think he’s saying don’t do drugs. Keep busy working and don’t use drugs. Popping pills is usually when someone breaks open a capsule and snorts the contents. I think that’s what he’s referring to. Great reaction. I love Tyler Childers. I have most of his records on vinyl. Other good songs: “Follow You To Virgie”, “Whitehouse Road”, “House Fire”, “Shake The Frost”. There’s so many great ones. You really can’t go wrong with Tyler.
Lady May is so poetic and follow you to virgie too!
The true saying is, “keep your nose to the grindstone”. It means to stay focused on your goals and out of trouble. “Out of the pills” means exactly that. The opioid problems in southern WV and Eastern KY are horrible.
The opioid epidemic in rural communities is rampant, particularly in the working class. His dad became addicted to the pills, and his advice to his son was to work at something relentlessly while avoiding addiction.
“Pills” have ate up SE Kentucky and West Virginia. They call it “Hillbilly Heroin”. It has ruint my hometown of Huntington Wv, streets full of zombies at night. As far as the grindstone…it refers to the everyday struggle or grind that unfortunate people face every day.
Tyler childers and colter wall With fraulein 😍
White House Road is my favorite TC song... This was a great song too...
You’ve heard people say stay on the grind. It’s changed over the years, a grindstone is what you make flour on. So keep working and stay off pills, aka oxy
From southeast KY right from near his holler. What he's saying is is old man warning him to stay busy and not be snorting pills. It's a HUGE problem back home.
I was shocked recently going back to northern Alabama, prescription drug addiction is a huge problem. They take each others, sell them to each other. Everyone seemed to be on them. I’m 61, I never saw such a thing 😢
Pronunciation is Tyler Chill-ders. Great videos
Tyler's last name is pronounced as if you were cold and said Chill-ders.
Britt, Tyler’s song to his wife “Lady Mae” will leave you breathless. The poetic words he uses to describe!
Yes ma'am, lets go!
Britt my girl there was an epidemic of pills in pike county ky and West Virginia a few years back. Took a lot of lives. Love listening to your reactions
The opioid epidemic started in Eastern Kentucky and other hard labor places. Oxycontin was prescribed as a non-addictive medication because the doctors believed the pharmaceutical reps. A person goes down into the mines, hurts themselves, and they got put on oxycontin creating a rapid epidemic. Tyler is from where I am, cousin to my brother in law, but I've never met him. Would definitely like to, though.
Raw truth!
I hear some say they dont like country but i often wonder if they've really dug into it because this is so hard to beat but i do understand because some of its sad but country will always have a special place in my heart plus it was the partial reason that gave us rock n roll
Keep your Nose to the GrindStone means to knuckle down , work hard ... a GrindStone is what's used to grind the wheat to make flour for bread . ( one of the oldest forms of work and examples are found in every early civilisation) it can also be a upright circular stone wheel for sharpening tools and knives etc .
And the Pills are pills ( opiates) Tyler has struggled with addiction to pills and Booze for years but is currently clean and sober
blessings!
Tyler Childers "Way of the triune god"
Chill-ders
Tyler Childers brings the generational pain from the Appalachian culture; and shows it in his voice, unbelievable poverty still, and now an opiate and meth epidemic. Keep your nose on the grindstone means focus on your work, and what’s important. It’s legitimately a tool for sharpening instruments. He’s recently clean from drugs. Chill feed. Listen to Way of the Triune God.
I meant it is pronounced, “Chill Durs”.
Actual pills.. Opioid addiction is a huge problem. Especially in my part of the country.
And his dad in the song most likely has experience with that, considering the line that he messed up his back.
Pure Appalachian gold right there. Hillbilly stuff for sure. Them's my people!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@brittreacts Always love your vids. Real, expressive, and authentic.
Your In store for some great music.
Nose on the Grindstone is an old sayin basically meaning keep grinding, working, minding your own and tryin your best
Whiskey Myers “Broken Window serenade” the video of him and a friend playing the song is best version
Lotta peeps be on those opiates. That’s what. Probably more than that as well. He is one of my favorites of all time. He doesn’t just sing, he tells you how to be. At least in this one. That’s how I took it.
The grindstone is figurative, the pills are literal 🤣🤣
Tyler Graduated High School with my son. Great young man. He grew up in Eastern Kentucky. The “pills” he is referring to is a huge problem here. So much poverty and despair that it has led to a huge problem with people taking pills to escape. Then after addiction it leads to other terrible outcomes.
Aight girl... its chill-ders... Tyler Chill-ders🤙🍻 amd a grimd stone is what they used to use to make flower/ a stone that is used to sharpen a knife edge👍 and pills is pills/drgs
If you're a fan of Tyler you need to hear him sing Rock Salt And Nails... But you can't go wrong with any of his music.
Quick take - I think this song is a great take on the battle between knowing what to do and actually doing it. I think Tyler picks up on the fact that it is easy to give great and simple advice but much much harder to actually implement the advice. It is a back and forth between a father that has simple advice that, on its own, seems very easy to abide by. The son in the song is really trying to abide by the simple advice but life is preventing him from doing so. It is a very sad reality for people who are in a tough spot in life. They get all the great and simple advice from others, but it is much easier said than done.
I think when he's talking about the grid stone he's referring to the daily grind when everyone ground their own flower at home and was a job few liked so became an old term for work that my grandparents would have used. I've found myself using the terms without realising until I had to explain the terms to my children who explained to me I'm just old
I am completely perplexed by how many people do not understand "keep your nose on the grindstone" means. 😵💫. work hard, take care of yourself and your family. don't drink don't do drugs I am from Sweden and live by these rules. children first.
He’s taking about pills. Easter KY has been destroyed by the pill mills. It’s the same situation in the Southwest area of West Virginia.
At the beginning he said his Daddy messed up his back. The pills are referring to pain medication and addiction to it.😮
Keep your nose to the grindstone is an old saying for staying focused. Do the right thing and work hard. That's what it means by keeping your nose to the grindstone
Tyler (chill-ders) Childers
…and the saying is, “Keep your nose to the grindstone”.
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Nose to the grindstone means keep your nose in your work. Like "Idle hands are the devils plaything". Pills are epidemic in poor areas.
You should give "Lady May" a listen to by this guy.
Id love to see you react to his song Banded Clovis, its a classic murder ballad
White house road and feathered Indians is 2 other great ones by him
In Appalachia opiates are a huge problem. It's referring to the grinding of pulls and snorting them. Listen to Whitehouse Road
Keep your nose on the grindstone it's the same expression is saying stay on the straight and narrow path.
Another guy you might try is Cody jinks / hippies and Cowboys or it must be the whiskey.Great reaction
CHILL-Ders
Gotta check out “Whitehouse Road” from the Our Vinyl Sessions
I love Follow you to Virgie!
Great reaction, he has tons of great songs! Take your pick. However, he has "Long Violent History" and a video separate from the song where Tyler explains his position on our current culture and his inspiration for the song itself. Perhaps reacting to both in a video would shed light on some very important topics in our world right now. Thanks for all that you do!!
Should check out some teddy swims. "911", "i can't make you love me - cover", "let me love you - cover", "amazing", "broke"
“Chill” ders
Hello, howdy I am a 61 one-year-old Southerner what is meant by "Keep your nose to the grindstone" means you stay focused on what matters, (Your Job, your life) and don't vote for the wealthy, their liars, and/or the party that promotes their policies. You vote for your economic reality. Every Billionaire represents a policy failure.
I've been yelling for a Tyler Childers reaction for so long! I knew you'd like his stuff. I know you're probably slammed with requests/suggestions, not gonna be too hard on you. "Lady May" (from this same session) is one of his best!
Literal pills and you should react to more of him
Check out “ Whiskey Myers - Sone “ live if you haven’t already . It’s a must , they have so many bangers
To keep your nose on the grindstone in the UK means to keep working hard …and the first words he uses are “daddy worked like a mule mining Park County Coal, fucked up his back …couldn’t work any more …..I’m from Uk and heard that clearly jeez
Sad but true story Appalachia, Virginia is where the opioid epidemic started. The coal miners spent so much time underground that their bones hurt, and so the pharmaceutical companies came up with these medication to help them with their pain and it was so addictive it spread like wildfire through the region, and that is where the opioid epidemic started. It was targeted just like everything else, the pharmaceutical companies may not have known how addictive it was, but they grow to know and clearly didn’t care because profit over everything. It’s disgusting.
Based on this, please check out Whiskey Myers broken window Serenade
TWO WORDS" EASTERN KENTUCKY
I suggest "Lady May" as your next TC song.
I don't believe that lyric is meant to be taken figuratively. 'Keep your nose to the grindstone and out of those pills". Pills is in reference to the widespread opioid abuse throughout Appalachia.
Chill ders
means work hard
Good jod young lady, Whitehouse Road and Feathered Indians are very good also
Someone may have already mentioned it but it’s pronounced ‘Chill’ders. If you like this check out Zach Bryan and Something in the Orange. ♥️🎶
Since we're here, might as well add some John Moreland to the mix..
You should check out Drake White Makin’ Me Look Good Again. Love your reactions and love for the rawness of artists.