Open Mic Week 40 'Southbound Boots' Original Song (Bathroom sessions)
It's that time of the week again when I need to go to the bathroom!
So, I wrote this song in 2011 after my first experience hitch-hiking and busking around Southern England, I got home and I realised that the world is an open road and I don't have to stay in my sad little Northern town. I felt free, I felt like I'd found the key, and I was one of the few people brave enough to hold it!
A few months later I set off into mainland Europe with no more than £100 in my pocket, no bank cards, no rich daddy to bail me out - just a guitar, a set of harmonicas and a rucksack, and I spent nine months exploring France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, then I lived the Winter out in the Arctic North of Sweden, moving on through Finland and Norway and eventually back home. All by hitch-hiking, busking and couch surfing!
It was the most amazing thing I've ever done, and to be quite honest I'm ready to do it again, I've been stuck here ever since I got back in 2012...
So, Southbound Boots is like an anthem for people everywhere wanting to escape.
If you enjoyed this song, please vote for me in the open mic by finding and upvoting my post in the comments section here: https://steemit.com/openmic/@luzcypher/steemit-open-mic-40-record-your-performance-on-your-phone-enter-and-win-steem-sponsored-by-pfunk-and-luzcypher
Thanks for listening!
Nice!!! First song written?!...Damn!!!! It sounds like you been writing for lifetimes.
Thanks Gabriel, I was very much into Bob Dylan at the time, it possibly shows! Are you singing another one for us this week?
I intend to. It will have to wait a few days.. .busy with work.. up at 5:00 am this morning, getting ready to roof an apartment in my home town.
Sounds tough, well I really look forward to your next appearance!
Hard work has been my salvation. It has brought me back from the clutches of death itself. I am grateful for the opportunity and happy2b.
That's probably where I'm going wrong! I'm the laziest busker in the world...
I got away with that as long as I possibly could.
I'm almost 30 now, it's probably due to change soon..
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First try at songwriting? Well more like that please.
Strong song lyrically and vocally.
Thanks man, I see you've got some new songs up too, I'll be having a listen soon!
Awesome, makes me want to rock out in my bathroom (that's not a euphemism)! Upped.
Do it! #bathroomsessions
I like this song. Having hitch hiked a few thousand miles myself I can relate. Good luck this week!
Thanks buddy!
You're welcome
Another good one. Keep them coming man!
Wow! You are super talented! You made me wanna throw my hands up and just dance around like a hippy haha! This is that feel good empowering music! Love it and keep it up friend! <3 @clintjunior
Thank you, glad you liked it! You came along at the right time because my songs posted previous to this one are, let's say, less positive. Haha. Oh but I meant to mention to you earlier, you should listen to Born to Forget, I saw one of your posts where you were literally talking about the theme of that song, about remembering who we really are?... I think you will like it.
https://steemit.com/openmic/@clintjunior/open-mic-week-38-born-to-forget-original-song-bathroom-sessions
so great my friend , I like what you do , your songs should be sent out to the whole world , really nice !
Nice brotha... I don't go nowhere without my Southbound Boots on... Loved it !
Thanks! My southbound boots have been hung up for a while but I'm gonna be needing them again real soon..! 👞
Another good number. TBH, I felt a definite urge to play along with a dobro. Keep up the original material... loving it.
Thanks Geoff, you can play along with whatever you want! What is a dobro though? Haha