Still Records

i wasn’t always going to call this record ’a pill for loneliness’. it actually had another name up until the last second. i was watching the news one night and something i saw made me change it. they were talking about how researchers are trying to create an actual pill for loneliness. i thought it was pretty awful that we live in world that is making it necessary for us to need a pill to cure being lonely. i realized music was like my pill for loneliness. it allowed me to feel like i had somebody else in my life. when I was younger, all I wanted to do was write a song that made someone feel the way I felt when I connected to a music. ‘a pill for loneliness’ is the right title. it is the best way to describe this album and the band.

B.C. based songwriter Ben Rogers has been turning heads with compelling songs and captivating performances for a while. Now signed to Dallas Green's newly minted Still Records, Rogers finds himself drifting away from the country-tinged Americana of his previous albums (2015's The Bloodred Yonder and 2013's Lost Stories: Volume One). Rogers evokes a raw, hazy, rock inspired swagger that channels the likes of possessed masterminds from Nick Cave to Otis Redding to Marc Bolan of T.Rex. Put simply, it is enveloping and the authenticity is palpable.

In the spring of 2017, Dallas Green embarked on an extensive Canadian tour with 28 sold-out shows in 25 cities billed as “An Evening with City and Colour.” In contrast with the preceding full-band runs supporting specific studio albums, this one featured only Green accompanied multi-instrumentalist Matt Kelly performing serene, stripped-down iterations of songs spanning the entire City and Colour catalogue. The tour in 2017 became Green's love letter to Canada, its places, and its people and subsequently Guide Me Back Home, became his love letter to fans worldwide.