Kevin Bronson on February 20th, 2019

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San Diego County quintet Trouble in the Wind have racked up local plaudits for their rollicking folk-rock, Everyman music that comes in two varieties: earnest or a little bit goofy. Either is liable to induce crowds to sing along to the band’s big gang vocals … and leave those patrons a little bit amused the next morning when they wake up, maybe a bit hung over, realizing that they’re hoarse from bellowing lines like “Ohhhhhh, no / there’s a frog in my soul.”

That’s the chorus of the light-hearted single “Fall Guy,” the closing track on Trouble in the Wind’s album “Hammer On.” The band — singer-guitarist Robby Gira along with Keith Haman (guitar, pedal steel, vocals), Kyle Merritt (guitar, piano, banjo, accordion), Trevor Mulvey (bass) and Larry Doran (drums, vocals) — riffs on the lyrics in the new video for “Fall Guy,” which arrives as the band preps for a West Coast/SXSW tour.

Directed by Dave Matthies, the video stars with our hero on a golf outing (putting with a wedge?) when out of nowhere he is konked on the head by somebody’s errant shot. In the sequence that follows, the aforementioned frog takes over. It’s as sure a sign as any to order another round.

||| Watch: The video for “Fall Guy”