Blitzen Trapper Release Tom Petty and Patti Smith Influenced New Song “Wild and Reckless”

About a month ago Portland folk band Blitzen Trapper announced that next month on November 3rd will be the day they release their upcoming album Wild and Reckless while sharing the group’s lead single “Rebel.” Well it seems that Blitzen Trapper has added more excitement to the arrival of their new album by sharing their second single “Wild and Reckless.”

While talking to Consequence of Sound, Blitzen Trapper’s own Eric Earley explained theme of the new single stating “‘Wild and Reckless’ is about looking back on the crazy days of youth and wondering how you survived those sketchy times with danger eternally nosing at your heels and when you look back now there’s this feeling like, ‘I’ll never be as alive as I was then.’ Reality will never seem that vibrant and embraceable. Whether that’s true or not isn’t important, it’s just a feeling, life’s intractable ability to hoodwink us into seeing the past as a shinning corona, even when there’s only darkness at the center.”

Blitzen Trapper also talked about how the work of Tom Petty and Patti Smith detailed the music and literature that factored into the making of “Wild & Reckless.” When discussing Smith’s influences Earley stating “I wanted the track to have this loneliness and urgency, to open with a piano that starts it all, opens the scene, the lovers dancing real close in the bed of the old Ford as the sun goes down over the desert.” For Petty, Earley stated how Petty’s song “The Wild One, Forever,” was a jumping off point for him saying “It’s the story of boy meets girl, and even though he sees trouble in her eyes, in the end he doesn’t want off the hook.” Below you can checkout Blitzen Trapper’s new single “Wild and Reckless.”