Ty Brueilly’s Mightier Than The Sword Records 20 year Run (so far)

After watching his FB live, we’ve caught up with founder of Mightier Than The Sword Records on a zoom call yesterday, Ty Brueilly and he was full of positivity for the remainder of this anniversary year.

“We are going back to some of the things that really made us strong in our peak; communication and a regular schedule of in person meetings with the artists, along with scheduling recording sessions at Livewire Studio. I am staying in touch with the core artists and the one’s who were the most active in our prime. Every Monday since April I have focused on the record label aspect of MTTS. We’ve revisited and reinvented what “Mighty Monday” is, and I have to say I really dig the direction we’ve been going.” Says Brueilly.

Mightier Than The Sword Records was established with two dozen people around a pair of wooden restaurant booths in May of 2005 at Macado’s in Boone, North Carolina, the same night Ty graduated from Appalachian State University.

Brueilly recalls, “This night has been a constant reoccurrence in my memory bank this year, especially, because everyone asks about the roots of it. I’m happy to keep talking about it though, because it’s such an important night, it was kind of a transitioning…no, more like a transcendence into something greater than I would have ever imagined. I had family members there with me, my two best friends from teenage years, some class mates, Boone natives and, Derrick Holder, who was not only my roommate with me, but who I really started to make music with as the duo, Scan Fam that ended up becoming a full fledged group, all of those individuals were my team at that point, cheerleading me on and I felt like that was the perfect night to start something new and set some very high goals.”

20 years later, MTTS has celebrated with Monthly events, “First Friday Fashion & Photography” and “Third Thursday Thinktanks” that have been focused on community involvement in the arts. MTTS also held a four day festival at the historic Sunset Theatre in May, and before that, to begin this monumental year, the second annual Mightier Than The Sword Awards at Sunset Film Festival, bringing Hollywood to Asheboro with expansive and culturally diverse programming, topped off with “Mighty Mondays” which Brueilly says will help usher in the end of the anniversary year before a grand finale type event December 11^th, again at the Sunset Theatre.

“Going back to Mighty Mondays, we started that at our ten year anniversary, which was also the same year I got married, and also the same year my wife and I moved back into the United States. It was originally a weekly radio show that went through our catalogue a little at a time, just a few remain online somewhere. It then was shelved for a year or so, and like so much MTTS, it’s reinvented, and now it’s mainly a phrase we use when we release new singles/songs, which we have 15 new ones, and a few unreleased to get out into the world from now until the end of the year. We’ve already released two, ‘Self Employed’ featuring Ed E. Ruger & Merkules and ‘Put It On The Set’ featuring Tenacious, J Bryant & Silkk The Shocker. We have recording sessions scheduled throughout the end of the year, so we are hoping to release almost every Monday, with the goal being every Monday.”

There seems to be some magic in the air when speaking with Ty about anything MTTS, and we are here for it. Watching what has unfolded so far this year has been exhilarating and we hope that our readers can get to know more about MTTS and what they do, because it’s much more than what’s on the surface.