photo by Jay Blakesberg

Chris Robinson Brotherhood will release their new studio album, Servants of the Sun, June 14 on Robinson’s own Silver Arrow Records, and the group has shared a new video for the second single from the record, “Chauffeur’s Daughter,” which premiered today over at Rolling Stone.

The new track is a laid-back ode to a comforting kind of love, and the similarly easy-going video, which was directed by photographer Jay Blakesberg, features Robinson and his real-life partner, Camille, playing out some of the lyrics of the song with a limo drive through Marin County in Northern California. The video also features scenes of CRB playing at Phil Lesh’s Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael.

Blakesberg explained the origins of the video to Rolling Stone: “When Chris and I started talking about doing a new photo shoot for his summer album release and tours, he also mentioned wanting to do some videos. His manager sent me songs and lyrics and several of the ones they were thinking about for singles immediately jumped out at me. Before I even talked to Chris I knew ‘Chauffeur’s Daughter’ was loosely based on his girlfriend. I have a friend who owns a 1990 Lincoln Stretch Limo, and if I could convince his girlfriend to drive it I figured it would be super cool. I shifted the storyline a little so that she starts out as the Chauffeur, with Chris riding in the back seat, but eventually they become a ‘couple’ and Chris moves to the front seat. I wanted the limo scenes set in a more rural locale as I thought that would be a more interesting backdrop instead of the limo driving in a city, which is why we shot this mostly in ‘Unicorn, CA’ [the Brotherhood’s fictional home, and also the name of their studio]. It’s a simple story arc with several visual references in the video that tie in to the lyrics without being overly literal.”

Robinson and company will celebrate the release of Servants of the Sun, the band’s sixth studio effort, with a June 27 album-release show at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn. Tickets for the performance go on sale this Friday, April 26.

On the new LP, Robinson tells Rolling Stone, “The last couple of records we put songs and pieces of music on there that we were definitely not ever going to play live. For Servants of the Sun, I wanted to compose music that could super-charge the live show. This is also the first record we’ve made in the summertime and the first time I’ve lived in the studio the whole time. That added something too. To wake up right to my guitar, it adds to the focus and the occult powers that we’re summoning when we’re in a creative mode.”

Watch the video for “Chauffeur’s Daughter” below, and see the Brotherhood’s upcoming tour dates here.