Noah Kahan is continuing his Stick Season collaboration series with Brit Sam Fender on “Homesick.” As suggested by the title, the song centers on the complicated feelings that go along with missing one's hometown and wanting to escape. Fender offers a new perspective with his verse, sharing similar sentiments about growing up in his hometown of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

"When I first heard Sam Fender’s music, I stopped what I was
doing, started 'Dead Boys' from the beginning and listened four more times," Kahan said. "It was everything I loved about a song. I followed this artist like a crazy person, checking every day to see if he had dropped new music. Reading every lyric and looking for his interpretation of what they meant.

"I must have listened to ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ a thousand times before 'Seventeen Going Under' came out, and I had never felt so connected to a song. I come from a very different place than Sam did, that much was clear in the lyrics, but it felt like I had grown up the same. The nostalgia, pride, bitterness, confusion, and anger that Sam wrote about feeling was so similar to what I was feeling about my childhood and my hometown at the time This song was the final push for me to start writing about my own experiences."

The original version of "Homesick" was included on Kahan's breakout album, Stick Season (Mercury/Republic), in 2022. He followed up with the deluxe version in 2023, which peaked at #3. The Stick Season collaboration series also includes Gracie Abrams on “Everywhere, Everything,” Hozier on “Northern Attitude," Kacey Musgraves on “She Calls Me Back," Lizzy McAlpine on “Call Your Mom" and Post Malone on the platinum-certified “Dial Drunk."

Listen to "Homesick" below while we get drunk without benefit of dialing.