Texas singer and songwriter Rodney Crowell released “Go Light a Candle” featuring Emmylou Harris and Lera Lynn today via New West Records back in February, 2026.
A protest song, Crowell originally released the single anonymously last year, but after the ICE raids in Minneapolis, decided to give the song a proper release with an accompanying video directed by Joshua Britt and Neilson Hubbard.
Crowell said, “Although I expected the last presidential election to turn out exactly as it did, I wasn’t ready for what would come next. I shared with my good friend, Sam Baker, how I wanted to write a protest song that wasn’t strident or blatantly insulting anyone’s intelligence other than my own. Sam listened to what I had written and said, ‘Now go light a candle.’ From there, I knew what the song needed to say. Emmylou, Lera Lynn, and Dan Knobler helped me frame the music and, after releasing it anonymously a year ago, in response to the ICE raids in Minneapolis and other sanctuary cities, I decided to stand openly behind the song,”
“Go Light a Candle” follows Crowell’s 2024 studio album, “Airline Highway.”
The release of “Go Light a Candle” arrives ahead of U.S. tour, which starts in Edmonds, Wash.. He will also launch his first headline shows in Europe in over a decade this April.