Highway of Heroes (Alternate Version
/ 2016 video)
Performed and Written by The Trews
(featuring Kid Rock)
The American version of The Trews' song, Highway of
Heroes, and its video featuring Kid Rock movingly
express a heartfelt tribute to America's fallen troops!
"Back in 2011 we were asked to
redo our song Highway of Heroes for an American TV show
that wanted to use it in one of it's scenes.
The
scene involved the flag draped casket of an American
soldier returning from combat. We felt it would be
appropriate to break the song down to it's core, just
piano, vocal and a little bit of violin, to really drive
home the somber feel reflected in the scene. It also
made sense to us to tweak the lyrics so that they better
reflected the reality of an American soldier. So a dozen
became a hundred, a hundred became a thousand, Ontario
became Ohio and 'true patriot love' became 'the dawns
early light'.
We've always said that this a song
is for all troops who make the ultimate sacrifice for
what they believe in and didn't feel it had to be
specific to one country.
Around this same time we
were crossing Canada with Kid Rock to promote our Hope
and Ruin album. We got to know each other pretty well on
that tour and when we cut this version of the song we
asked him if he would be willing to lend his voice to
it. He agreed so we sent him the session and he laid his
voice in there. It worked out really well and we'd
always planned on releasing it but were just looking for
the right time.
