Open Road Runaways

A blues-rock tune I composed inspired by classic bands like ZZTop as well as 70s/80s American car chase movies. Let me know what you think!

A friend of mine from a local metal band recorded the electric guitar parts. 

I really loved the slide guitar parts :)

4 hours ago, Gustav Johnson said:

I really loved the slide guitar parts :)

 

Thanks man! First time I ever actually played slide guitar.

@AngelCityOutlaw for real??

1 hour ago, Gustav Johnson said:

@AngelCityOutlaw for real??

Yeah, I played electric guitar for many years, but I just got an acoustic a few months ago. I bought a slide for it specifically to play on this tune, but I only had like a couple of hours practice before recording it lol

Very cool! I liked it a lot. Especially the lead guitar.

On 11/20/2020 at 7:13 AM, alcapone_dudu said:

Very cool! I liked it a lot. Especially the lead guitar.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it

This is awesome!!! It's so well written and blended! Are you a professional?

On 2/12/2021 at 12:00 PM, SwiggitySwewgity said:

This is awesome!!! It's so well written and blended!

Thanks! I appreciate it.

On 2/12/2021 at 12:00 PM, SwiggitySwewgity said:

Are you a professional?

Sometimes lol

2 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

 

Sometimes lol

 

With as good as you are at this, you could definitely make a career out of this if that's what you wanted to!

4 hours ago, SwiggitySwewgity said:

With as good as you are at this, you could definitely make a career out of this if that's what you wanted to!

Ha, Thanks. I appreciate the support and confidence.

I have fortunately made some money with music over the years, probably more than most get to, and I'm actually presently working on music for a VR Game, but to be honest, making a career out of composing is pretty difficult and at the age of 29, no longer a terribly practical pursuit or desirable even lol. 

I'm not a Rock person, but this is really cool and like it ! 

On 2/19/2021 at 5:45 AM, Compopo said:

I'm not a Rock person, but this is really cool and like it ! 

I'm glad that you do!

This is RIGHT ON target..Brilliant guitar work..  Would you consider EQ'ing Slide Guitar brighter  and raising volume so it would feel like the player was sitting right on stage with the solo electric guitar..

Excellent chord progression, instead of a standard blues progression, you through in some surprises which let you made the different snippets of E Guitar solos quite effective...  very impressive..  

Kept thinking about this piece, came back for additional listenings..  On further ponderance, perhaps some strong compression, along with EQ and volume, could get the slide guitar work = more into the same family sound palette as the electric guitars. Just my opinion through. Still GREAT WORK

On 7/22/2021 at 8:22 AM, mark styles said:

This is RIGHT ON target..Brilliant guitar work..  Would you consider EQ'ing Slide Guitar brighter  and raising volume so it would feel like the player was sitting right on stage with the solo electric guitar..

Excellent chord progression, instead of a standard blues progression, you through in some surprises which let you made the different snippets of E Guitar solos quite effective...  very impressive.. 

On 7/23/2021 at 10:10 AM, mark styles said:

Kept thinking about this piece, came back for additional listenings..  On further ponderance, perhaps some strong compression, along with EQ and volume, could get the slide guitar work = more into the same family sound palette as the electric guitars. Just my opinion through. Still GREAT WORK

Hey thanks for the comments!

I'm glad you're liking it