Tyler Hilton will be performing a FREE show at iPlay America on Sunday, November 9th! Before Tyler Hilton wrote the songs that appear on his new album “The Storms We Share,” he had never written anything but love songs.“It’s not that I was uninterested in things other than love, but it was love that made me want to write songs,” the 30-year-old singer, songwriter, and guitarist says. That would have been fine except that Hilton had been working on a new album for three years and had already scrapped hundreds of songs that he didn’t consider good enough.Uninspired, he was having a hard time motivating himself to keep going. He moved to Los Angeles and released a self-titled independent album in 2000. He also indulged his other passion, acting, by appearing in The CW’s “One Tree Hill” and indie cult favorite “Charlie Bartlett,” and playing Elvis Presley in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line.” Hilton’s songs have been included on the Grammy Award-winning “Walk the Line” soundtrack and on all three of the popular “One Tree Hill” soundtracks. Hilton signed with Maverick Records and released “The Tracks Of Tyler Hilton” in September 2004. “I wrote all those songs when I was still in high school,” he says, “and I was very impressed that the songs I wrote while I was doing homework ended up being released on a major label. That was really exciting to me. I could have written those kinds of songs again, but I wanted to do better. And I think my new album is better.”
