"Carry Me Home" is a 2015 song by American folk-pop duo the Sweeplings. The song premiered on

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in July 2015, and was released as part of the album ''Rise & Fall'' in August. The song was later used as the backdrop for the official trailer for the final season of the

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series '' Longmire''.

History

Composition and lyrical interpretation

"Carry Me Home" was written by singer-songwriters

Cami Bradley Carmen Jane "Cami" Bradley (born May 26, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist from Spokane, Washington. Bradley gained fame in 2013 as a contestant on America's Got Talent (season 8), season eight of ''America's Got Talent'', d ...

and Whitney Dean, known collectively as the Sweeplings. The song is about the loss of loved ones, "written from the perspective of the one leaving." Lyrics include "Lay down my bones knowing I'll be in a better place/Release my soul, carry me home".

Releases

premiered "Carry Me Home" in July 2015; its official release came in August with the Sweeplings' debut album ''Rise & Fall''. When the Sweeplings signed with

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in 2018, they offered an acoustic version of the song ahead of the deluxe version re-release of the album.

Other appearances

The official trailer for the final season of the

series '' Longmire'' is set to "Carry Me Home".

Reception

"Dean and Bradley float across vast landscapes of dusty tones" for the song, wrote ''Popdust'', which also rated ''Rise & Fall'' as its No. 15 album of 2015 on the strength of key tracks including "Carry Me Home".

likened the song to Dean's previous work with

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, calling it "a dark, expansive piece of rootsy pop, and Dean and Bradley are more subtle players" than White and Joy Williams.

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placed "Carry Me Home" on its list of the 25 best singer-songwriter tracks of 2015.

References

Footnotes

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