House and his husband, the journalist Jason Kyle Howard, came up with the idea of two coal miners who fall in love in 1950s Appalachia and, to flee the violent ostracism of their fellow miners, leave not for the city but for the country, where they become farmers. This would be pretty incredible, to have that kind of representation.’” “When he said that, I just thought, ‘So many other people have never seen themselves in a country music video. “He said he would like to have it be a gay love story, mainly because his first cousin who’s like a brother to him is gay, and he wanted him to see himself in a country music video,” House tells Rolling Stone. But then Childers made a request: Would House - an acclaimed author whose first novel, 2001’s Clay’s Quilt, had helped shape Childers’ appreciation for their shared home state -write a particular storyline for the song’s music video? Silas House, the poet laureate of Kentucky, was on a car ride with Tyler Childers when the songwriter pressed play on a new song he’d recorded called “In Your Love.” House was floored by what he heard.
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