Tera Lynne Fister Releases Emotional New Single “Home”

Memories of childhood homes and family have inspired some truly wonderful country songs …Miranda Lambert’s “House That Built Me” being a shining example, and more recently Cam’s “Redwood Tree” …and last Friday saw the release of an equally poignant single from Tera Lynne Fister, “Home”.
Tera is an artist we have featured before on the site, the St Louis, Missouri native now lives in Nashville and as well as earning a reputation for her honky-tonk sass the versatile artist can also show her more vulnerable, reflective side which is exactly what she demonstrates with this stunner of a song.
And knowing the full story behind its inspiration makes it even more moving. When Tera got the phone call from her mom that she was selling the house she grew up in, the memories came flooding back. “I became overcome with gratitude remembering every inch of my bedroom, and remembering the feeling of the carpet digging in on my legs from practicing guitar for so long. The carpet and my legs had become one,” remembers Fister.
Sadly since writing “Home” Tera’s Mom passed away, and thinking how she could further honour her in the song she decided to include one of her mother’s voicemails which you can hear at the end of the track. To quote Tera, “There’s mom telling me she loves me over my song. This is something that will live on forever in a piece of music and I am beyond proud to call it my own”