Cody Tyler & Gypsy Convoy

We are a country/honky tonk band based in Reading, PA but are willing and able to travel anywhere in the country. We play our own songs and our performance lasts approximately two hours. We play songs for people who like to drink and smoke, so if you’re looking to book a private party, keep this in mind. We travel with our own sound and lights, and we play loud.

“We would say we’re red dirt country, but the rocky soil up here in coal country and the rust belt is quite a few shades darker than that.” Outside of the industrial ruins of early 20th century boom towns where steel mills and coal mines thrived and steam engines thundered through the valleys, Cody Tyler & Gypsy Convoy are forging their own path through the foothills of Appalachia. The songs on their debut EP are the product of Cody Tyler’s musings while hunting deep in the Pennsylvania wilderness. With a long history that dates back to the colonial era, Cody’s family has hunted the hard timbers, tilled the fields, worked in the mines, and sweated in the steel mills of Pennsylvania for generations. Cody’s father, a third-generation trucker, inspired Cody’s love of country music and hunger for the open road from a young age. Like his family of truckers and travelers that came before him, his yearning for the road was bred into him. At just 25 years old, his musical journey has barely begun, but his yearning to travel the open road with his songs written from his tree stand have already taken him across the United States as a solo artist.

Cody and the Convoy may be from above the Mason-Dixon line, but they have forged a country and honky tonk sound of their own that tips its hat to the blue collar men and women of the Keystone State’s Appalachian heartland. Gypsy Convoy, are a collection of battle-tested musicians that have collectively earned their stripes sweating it out in bars and honky tonks across the state for decades.

In 2020, the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame nominated Cody Tyler & Gypsy Convoy for two Central Pennsylvania Music Awards for BestMale Vocalist and Best Country Act. Cody was also a Top 150 vocalist for Season 14 of NBC’s The Voice, reaching the executive producer callback auditions in Los Angeles. In 2019, the band were the runner-up in the Tumbleweed Country Music Festival Rising Star Talent Search, which featured over 300 country music artists from the United States and Canada. The band was also a Top-3 finalist at the 2018 I-105 WIOV Showdown in the Park.

Currently, Cody Tyler & Gypsy Convoy are hard at work on their first EP which encompasses the sound Cody describes as "Black Dirt Country,” which derives its name from the fertile dirt tilled by the Amish for centuries and the rocky soil of the Appalachian coal country. The feel of the songs is just as dark, as if they flowed down the mountains and into the Susquehanna River.