“Shotgun Blues” by Volbeat

"Shotgun Blues" was the third single Volbeat pulled from their eighth album, Servant of the Mind, arriving on September 23, 2021, after "Wait a Minute My Girl" and "Dagen Før". Michael Poulsen wrote it, like the rest of the record, in one concentrated burst, and it's a haunted-house song in the literal sense: as Blabbermouth.net and RockHard reported it, the lyrics deal with the eerie goings-on Poulsen ran into after moving into a new home, experiences he called "very otherworldly".

Poulsen sings and plays guitar alongside Rob Caggiano, with Kaspar Boye-Larsen on bass and Jon Larsen on drums, and he produced it with Jacob Hansen, who also mixed. Revolver heard old-school rock & roll bent into heavy metal shape, a lyric video by Shan Dan came out with the single, and in December 2021 it went to number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.