You never know when the inspiration for a song might hit, and for Jon Pardi’s latest single, “Head Over Boots,” it was at a Texas dancehall.
“I was at a Texas dancehall with my dad, and I was just watching older people and young people two-stepping around a circle and listening to old country and everybody seemed so happy. I just kind of soaked that in,” says Jon. “It was actually like a positive love song about growing old together, being together. It was a very easy song to write. It just kind of came out of me.”
Jon wrote the song with Luke Laird (“Last Name,” “Pontoon,” “Drink in my Hand”), and the tune is the first release from his upcoming album, due out later this year.
Audio / Jon Pardi talks about coming up with the idea for his current single, “Head Over Boots.”
DownloadJon Pardi (Head Over Boots idea) OC: …out of me. :55
“I was at a Texas dancehall with my dad, and I was just watching older people and young people two-stepping around a circle and listening to old country and everybody seemed so happy. I just kind of soaked that in. As a songwriter, you can just soak a feeling; you can watch a movie and come up with a song just because of how it makes you feel. So, that makes me feel like I need a song that fits in this situation. So, the next morning I woke up and had a cup of coffee, and I just started strumming the guitar and I came up with the whole chord progression and ‘I want to sweep you off your feet tonight and spin you around on some old dance floor.’ I had it and I was like, ‘I’m going to play this for Luke. I know we can do this.’ He loved it and he like did a little drum loop thing and it was real fun, and we just kind of had the ‘Head Over Boots’ idea title come up and I kind of talked about the positive love song I wanted. So when you dance with somebody, it was actually like a positive love song about growing old together, being together. It was a very easy song to write. It just kind of came out of me.”
