Chase McDaniel Confronts Generational Demons in Raw “My Side Of The Family” Video

Chase McDaniel just dropped “My Side Of The Family” with a Robby Stevens-directed video, and it’s one of the most brutally honest tracks you’ll hear. The Big Machine Records artist tackles the fear of passing down generational trauma, wrestling with whether he’ll repeat the patterns of addiction that shaped his childhood. McDaniel wrote the song for anyone who grew up with addicts for parents and worries about becoming them, even those who avoid having kids entirely because of that fear. Producer Lindsay Rimes offsets the heavy subject matter with a beautifully light arrangement of plucked banjo, acoustic guitar, and fiddle that lets McDaniel’s dynamic delivery shine. The track appears on his autobiographical debut album ‘Lost Ones,’ out now, a 12-track introduction co-written entirely by McDaniel that shares his struggles with depression and losing his father to addiction.