Atlanta folk duo Heart Hunters debut the new track “The Good Fight,” exclusively with C&I.
On the forthcoming album American Eclipse, Heart Hunters — indie-country artist Drew de Man of No River City and his singer-songwriter wife, Brianna Blackbird — explore a kind of fighting worth the energy on the track “The Good Fight.” Driven by dreamy pickings, hazy harmonies, and sweeping violins, it’s an exceptional song in both musical and lyrical content.
“The song is about putting aside all the relational conflict you could engage in and saving all that fire for the social change that we all need to happen, or ‘the good fight.’ It’s also about tearing up all the vacant strip malls, replacing them with community gardens, restoring ecology,” Blackbird says.
“We support solutions to social issues that intersect with environmental ones. This is a thing Drew and I daydream about a lot, and we really wanted the concept to make its way into a song — glad it found a home in ‘The Good Fight.’
“In the beginning, we're playing around with a sort of hazy Genesis story: These are like ancient memories of early humans. We’re not total throwbacks, but we believe humans do well to remember how much of a part of Nature and ecology we are.
“We were rewriting lyrics for the song up until the day we recorded it. ... It was super fun recording this one with the full band.”
Get an exclusive first listen to “The Good Fight,” below.
For more information on Heart Hunters and their upcoming album, visit their website. Photography: Courtesy Rachael Renee Levasseur.
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