Go Home

Album: Big Time (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Go Home" details Angel Olsen's feelings of isolation during the COVID lockdown. "I wanna go home," she wails impassionately. "Go back to small things."

    For Olsen, home is being with those people she's close to. "The small things are the people that matter, conversation that matters to me," she explained to Uncut magazine. "During the pandemic I started to realize how much I hated touring, not because I didn't like playing music, just because I missed feeling known. You have to be around to be known. The band works with you, for you. The fans see your art when they look at you. I miss my friends a lot. I miss not talking about music. I miss the other things I do, Even the mundane tasks. I love making music and sharing it, but it isn't all I love."
  • Olsen recorded "Go Home" for Big Time. She wrote the album while publicly coming out as queer and experiencing her first gay love and heartbreak.

    Weeks after Olsen came out, her mother and father both passed away in quick succession. The singer-songwriter had already booked recording time with producer Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Conor Oberst) in his Topanga Canyon studio in Southern California and didn't want to cancel. Three weeks after her mother's funeral, she started laying down the record, using her time there to heal and cleanse.
  • Olsen and Wilson both played the guitar on the track. Wilson also contributed drums, percussion, and harmonium. The other musicians are:

    Emily Elhaj: bass
    Dan Higgins: flute, baritone saxophone
    Drew Erickson: piano, harpsichord
    Steve Holtman: trombone
    Wayne Bergeron: trumpet
    Jacob Braun: cello
    Zach Dellinger: viola
    Andrew Bulbrook and Wynton Grant: violin

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