Tyler Farr’s a thinker, an observer of the human condition, a man in the middle of a surging testosterone country movement in today’s Nashville who insists on digging a little deeper, getting a little realer and owning how hard it can be.

From the wracked hangover of what you don’t see coming in love “Withdrawals,” the smoky acoustic “I Don’t Even Want This Beer” or the spare run-from-the-memories “Suffer in Peace,” the classically-trained vocalist knows that love isn’t just hard, it’s risky.

With a resonant tenor that has a powdery bottom and a warm center, Farr heats up difficult emotions and peels back what most men barricade behind bravado.

Suffer in Peace debuted at numbers 2 and 4 on the Top Country Albums and Billboard 200 charts respectively and spawned three singles, including “Better in Boots,” song. The album closer, “Why We Live Here”, a tribute song to the troops, was written while on tour with the Navy in the Persian Gulf.