"Trail in Life" is the title of a song written and recorded by Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Dean Brody

Dean Brody

Dean Brody is a Canadian country music artist. Signed to Broken Bow Records in 2008, Brody made his debut later that year with the single "Brothers"...

. It was released in October 2010 as the third single to his 2010 album Trail in Life

Trail in Life

-Album:-Singles:^ Current single.-External links:*[ Train in Life] at Allmusic...

. The song reached #81 on the Canadian Hot 100

Canadian Hot 100

The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...

 in early 2011.

Content

"Trail in Life" is a song about the way life (“time and distance”) has a way of moving on, even if you might not want it to.

Reception

Roughstock critic Matt Bjorke called it a "beautifully written and sung song that recalls Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...

’ 'What She's Doing Now

What She's Doing Now

"What She's Doing Now" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Garth Brooks. It was released in December 1991 as the third single from his album, Ropin' the Wind. It spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...

' in some parts but is a much, much more interesting song in that the verses discuss different parts of the narrator's life, from that first love to that college best friend to his life as an adopted child in a loving family." He goes on to call it "personal and intimate."

Music video

The music video was directed by Jeth Weinrich

Jeth Weinrich

Jeth Weinrich is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, music video, and commercial director.- Early life :Weinrich grew up in Calgary, Alberta, attended Parsons School of Design, and played for the Calgary Colts of the Canadian Junior Football League, the farm league for the CFL, for two years...

 and premiered in November 2010. The music video was filmed in Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 and Montauk, New York

Montauk, New York

Montauk [ˈmɒntɒk] is a census-designated place that roughly corresponds to the hamlet with the same name located in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, United States on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 3,851 as of 2000...

, the video also features scenes set at Long Island

Long Island

Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

’s Deep Hollow Ranch.

Chart positions

Chart (2010-2011)	Peak position
Canadian Hot 100	81