Video premiere: Stephen Kellogg's 'Thanksgiving'

• Stephen Kellogg%27s %22Blunderstone Rookery%22 album will come out June 18
• Daniel Cummings%27 video for %22Thanksgiving%22 features home-movie and public-domain footage
• %22Blunderstone Rookery%22 is Kellogg%27s first album since he and his band The Sixers went on hiatus

Maybe it seems a little early for Thanksgiving, but Stephen Kellogg's new song is about more than the fourth Thursday in November.

The track, from Kellogg's forthcoming Blunderstone Rookery album, begins as an American coming-of-age tale but, over the course of 10 minutes, transforms into something grander, sadder and more redemptive.

"There's a lot of redemption in it, so it takes some of the sting and sadness out of it for me," says the 36-year-old singer-songwriter and father of four daughters. "It's totally a coming-of-age thing, then a lot falls apart. Last year, for me, I felt a lot of that stuff. I see those stories happening all around me right now.

"I'm not going to say the song is autobiographical, but it's a song I don't have any trouble relating to. There is redemption at the end. Being forgiven, not giving up -- those are the themes that are interesting to me."

Those themes also are reflected in Daniel Cummings' video, which features home-movie and public-domain footage.

Blunderstone Rookery is Kellogg's first solo album since he and his band The Sixers went on indefinite hiatus following a tour that ended in November. Kellogg and the Sixers recorded seven albums together between 2004 and 2011. One of those, 2007's Glassjaw Boxer, was ranked among USA TODAY's best albums of that year. The hiatus had more to do with changing life priorities than any sort of acrimony between members. "We have a lot of love and respect for each other," Kellogg says. "They're my best friends; we've been doing this for 10 years."

Kellogg co-produced Blunderstone Rookery with former Sixer Kit Karlson, and all the group's members appear on the album. "The big difference is that, as a band, we were a democracy of sorts," Kellogg says. "But on this record, I gathered everybody's opinions, then I did what I wanted to do." That includes recording a 10-minute track. "I couldn't do that to the band, be like 'Here's my 19-verse song; figure it out!'"

Kellogg will precede Blunderstone Rookery, which comes out June 18, with a solo tour in May and June. He also plans to release a 10-inch vinyl version of Thanksgiving with a B-side recorded at historic Sun Studios in Memphis, Tenn.

Listen to Thanksgiving here, and, for 24 hours only, download it for free.