In a time when it’s altogether too easy to fabricate a musical identity, Trickshooter Social Club guns for the opposite. For a band intentionally steeped in authenticity, the realization of their own goals came true when a fan approached them after their set and said simply: “That was the truth.”
Starkly genuine and madly organic, the Chicago eight-piece makes it their mission to make your nights wild and hopeful, full of sweating and dancing, and underscored by that which makes the band real: full-bodied guitars, rollicking vocals, and a sense of spirited escapism.
Borne out of yearning, Trickshooter Social Club’s newest single “Carry Me Home” is a song for everyone who has ever felt lost or disconnected in the wilderness of life. It’s about trying to claw your way back home; self-actualizing as you admit that you’re lost, return to the places you know, and regain a semblance of self. Ultimately, though, it’s about the intimacy found when you’re stripped down and finally willing to ask for help, comparing vulnerability to a slow, unrehearsed waltz.
Today Glide is excited to offer an exclusive premiere of “Carry Me Home”, a song that showcases this band’s alt-country roots and the inspiration they draw from acts like Social Distortion, early Wilco, Steve Earle, the Mekons, and Uncle Tupelo. Featuring soulful vocal interplay and a heartfelt fiddle, the tune pulls at the heartstrings before we even get to the pedal steel. This is truly an ensemble cast of musicians, almost like a country version of Poi Dog Pondering, with everyone contributing their part to make for a big, powerful sound that fills a room while feeling loose yet composed.
Trickshooter frontman Steven Simoncic describes the song in his own words:
“‘Carry Me Home’ is a song about being lost and trying to find your way back…back to center, back to self, back to home. It is a song is about trying to get some earth back under your feet. A humble aspiration that is often elusive and sometimes devastating.
The song begins in sort of an existential barroom with one last dollar top spend. It is a place of a limbo, a place where promises are made (and broken), and where “resolutions abound.” The song lives in that moment when things could go either way.
At its core, ‘Carry Me Home’ is about being vulnerable. About swallowing what’s left off your pride and asking for help. It is about showing your scars and the broken bits we all work hard to hide, and asking to be loved anyway.
At times cynical, at times hopeful, the song is always pragmatic — it doesn’t expect too much… a light left on in the window… a comfortable cigarette on a familiar front porch… a chance to “sway every if we couldn’t dance.” This is not mythical love, or Hollywood love. This is blood-and-bone love, back-stretch-of-life love, that can only exist if you find a way to love yourself. As sublime and impossible as that may seem — that is the hero’s journey of this song. We hear it most overtly when our protagonist asks god, or the universe, or the assembled drunks in the barroom for a secular benediction:
Make me worthy
Make Me again
Give me hope
Give me shelter from the wind”
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What a great song. Thanks for sharing this song and this great band!