"Boots On" is a country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 song co-written and recorded by American

United States

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 country music singer Randy Houser

Randy Houser

Shawn Randolph "Randy" Houser is an American country music artist. Signed to the Universal South Records label in 2008, he charted the single "Anything Goes" that year...

. It was released in early 2009 as Houser's second single to his debut album Anything Goes

Anything Goes (Randy Houser album)

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. The song reached a peak of #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Content

Written by Houser and Brandon Kinney, "Boots On" is an up-tempo with a theme of rural pride. The male narrator states that he is going to a bar to have fun, without so much as changing out of his work clothes ("Hey y'all, I'm goin' out with my boots on").

Reception

Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song a favorable review. He described the song as "the kind of song that radio loves precisely because fans will also love it." Kevin J. Coyne of Country Universe gave "Boots On" a B- rating. He stated that "Houser’s enthusiastic performance helps to elevate the rather ordinary material, but there’s been such a glut of 'country and proud of it' songs lately."

Music video

A music video was made, and was directed by Drake Vaughan and Eric Welch. The video features a toddler, Drake Dixon, son of songwriter Dillon Dixon, singing along with the song, and miming guitar playing. The footage of Drake singing along was originally shot by his nanny, Vickie Vaughan, who subsequently put the video on MySpace

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. The video became popular online, and Houser decided to incorporate it in his video, making it look like Drake was in his car. At the beginning of the video, Houser puts a digital video camera on his dashboard, pointed at Drake. At the end of the video, after finishing filling up his car, Houser finds he's locked out of it, but Drake's still too busy rocking out to notice.

The video was nominated for Music Video of the Year at the 2009 Country Music Association Awards

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, however, it lost to Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...

's "Love Story

Love Story (Taylor Swift song)

"Love Story" is a country pop song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift and produced by Nathan Chapman, alongside Swift. It was released on September 12, 2008 by Big Machine Records, as the lead single from Swift's second studio album Fearless...

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Chart performance

"Boots On" debuted at #59 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart dated March 7, 2009, and entered the Top 40 in its third chart week. It entered the Top 10 at #9 in July 2009 and peaked at #2 in September 2009, thus becoming his first Top 10 hit. It also finished at #3 on the Billboard Year-End

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chart for country music.
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Chart (2009)	Peak position