The Talbott Brothers were born and raised in Imperial, Nebraska, a rural midwest town located a stone's throw from the Colorado and Kansas border consisting of two thousand people. Siblings Nick and Ty started writing songs at a young age after discovering their dad’s old guitar and vinyl collection and being introduced to rock and roll, blues and country music that their parents always had
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Full Bio ▼ playing in the truck or at home. Not being born into a music community or having industry connections, they mowed lawns, loaded trucks and relied on their blue collar upbringing until they could afford a van on Craigslist to tour the country playing dive bars, coffee shops and honkytonks with a pile of burned CDs full of songs they recorded at a friend's cabin, making one fan at a time along the way. Their song ‘We Got Love’ (2017) brought them national recognition selling out shows across the US and their albums ‘Ghost Talker’ (2019) and ‘Letters’ (2022) garnered attention from 'Rolling Stone,’ 'Billboard' and 'The Boot' calling their music “cinematic,” “captivating blood harmonies” and "for fans of John Mayer, Mumford & Sons and Jason Isbell.” With over 3 million combined streams on Spotify, The Talbott Brothers blend their influences of rock, folk, pop and blues to create an infectious sound that is uniquely their own. They spent much of the last few years touring around the world, from headline shows to sharing the stage with Needtobreathe, Wild Rivers, Johnnyswim, ZZ Ward and many more. They’ve also dipped their feet into the festival circuit playing The Rock Boat, Portland Folk Festival and Pure Imagination Festival.
Nick and Tyler were born and raised in Imperial, a small town in Southwestern Nebraska, just a stone’s throw from the Colorado border. They began writing and performing together before relocating to their mother’s birthplace of Portland, Oregon. Tyler, the youngest (lead vocals, baritone guitar, harmonica) and Nick, the oldest (backing vocals, lead guitar) discovered their love of music after digging their dad’s old dreadnaught guitar out of the basement and teaching themselves to play along to Johnny Cash, Bob Seger and the Beatles on vinyl.
Following the release of 2017’s GRAY, they found themselves in front of sold out crowds in the US and sharing the stage with ZZ Ward, Johnnyswim and AJR. Ear to the Ground Music dubbed the record as one of the ‘Top 5 Albums of the Year’ stating it as, “equal parts optimistic and captivating, inspiring and hopeful.†Through rigorous touring and over half a million streams on Spotify, they continue to build a strong and loyal fanbase wherever they go.