Premiere | Triggers & Slips: It Won't Hurt
We’ve got a new single for you today from Salt Lake City based-band, Triggers & Slips. The song, “It Won’t Hurt” is a cover of a Dwight Yoakam tune off of his classic Guitars, Cadilliacs, Etc., Etc., album. This cover and nine others are featured on the newest album from Triggers & Slips, What Do You Feed Your Darkness?, out on September 9th.
Photo by Tristan Sadler
It takes guts to cover a song off of a classic country album, even if the song itself is a deep cut, but principal songwriter of the group, Morgan Snow, isn’t one to shy away from something that takes courage. As a lifelong social worker in the mental health field, Snow has seen his share of the struggles people deal with on a daily basis. He also drew from some of the most difficult times in his life, a divorce, battling his own personal demons, and turned them into material for the band’s fourth album. “This record is a pretty good, honest snapshot of my struggles over the last five or six years."
Snow had this to say about his choice to include this cover on the album, “This is a Dwight Yoakam song from Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. and one that I think was largely overlooked from that record. When I first heard it years ago, I thought it was a Merle Haggard song. Dwight is the G.O.A.T., no question about it.” Triggers & Slips have put their own spin on the song and if possible the song sounds even more down and out than when it appeared on the Guitars,Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. album. Oh, don’t worry, the honky tonk feeling is still there, it just feels like it’s been shaken up in a glass full of whiskey and tears and served on the rocks.
Listen to the premiere of Trigger & Slips cover of “It Won’t Hurt” below.