“Old money,” sings Tyler Childers on a song of the same name, recorded for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping soundtrack. “Birthing corporations/raising them up right.” It’s a stirring acoustic, gospel ode to a tale as old as the money that’s siloed, passed along, and protected by the very few at the expense of almost everyone else — a theme that Childers began to explore expertly on “Eatin’ Big Time” from 2025’s LP Snipe Hunter.
Produced and written by Childers and mixed by Shawn Everett (with whom the Kentucky native also recruited for Snipe Hunter), “Old Money” features background vocals from members of his band the Food Stamps (CJ Cain and Jesse Wells), alongside John Haywood and his wife Senora May, an excellent singer-songwriter in her own right. It’s Childers’ first new release since Snipe Hunter, but he recently produced the excellent The Universal Bubba by Willi Carlisle.
Sunrise on the Reaping’s soundtrack, produced by Dave Cobb, showcases scores of some of the most lauded country and roots musicians, including Ella Langley, Kacey Musgraves, Madeline Edwards, Stephen Wilson Jr., Noah Cyrus, Carter Faith, Kashus Culpepper and Noah Kahan, as well as musical legends like Stevie Nicks and the Cure.
A prequel to the original trilogy, Sunrise on the Reaping is in theaters on Nov. 20 with the full soundtrack available now. The film stars Joseph Zada as young Haymitch Abernathy, alongside McKenna Grace, Whitney Peak, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Plemons, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, and Lili Taylor.
