Tyler Rich grew up in Northern California, and he experienced farm life, but it was a different kind of farming. His uncle owned an olive farm and he would spend many days out among the trees picking the olives. Tyler says, “That was my sense of farming. It wasn’t the typical tractor farming, but we all got our own story.”
On a funny side note, Tyler hated olives when he was growing up. He says, “The taste of it was wrong to me. And then I went to the Middle East and, I was in Turkey actually, and you know they do olives on everything. And it was when I finally start tasting those olives that were super salty and now I can’t eat enough olives. I used to look at people that would put the olives on their fingers and then just eat ‘em watching TV and I’d be so grossed out like, ‘What are you doing? That’s the nastiest thing!’ But now I’m the guy sitting on my couch with olives on my fingers.”
These days when Tyler isn’t sitting on his couch with olives on his fingers, he’s traveling the country promoting his latest single, “The Difference,” and making new fans wherever he goes.
Tyler Rich – olives :29
“That was my sense of farming. It wasn’t the typical tractor farming, but we all got our own story. You know what’s funny, I grew up hating olives, and it wasn’t even because they were around the house all the time, I just … the taste of it was wrong to me. And then I went to the Middle East and, I was in Turkey actually, and you know they do olives on everything. And it was when I finally start tasting those olives that were super salty and now I can’t eat enough olives. I used to look at people that would put the olives on their fingers and then just eat ‘em watching TV and I’d be so grossed out like, ‘What are you doing? That’s the nastiest thing!’ But now I’m the guy sitting on my couch with olives on my fingers.”