"Southbound" | ||||
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Single by Sammy Kershaw | ||||
from the album Feelin' Good Train | ||||
B-side | "Better Call a Preacher" | |||
Released | December 3, 1994 | |||
Format | CD single | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 4:31 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Songwriter(s) | Mac McAnally | |||
Producer(s) | Buddy Cannon, Norro Wilson | |||
Sammy Kershaw singles chronology | ||||
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"Southbound" is a song written and originally recorded by Mac McAnally for his 1990 album Simple Life.
It was released as a single by American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. It was released in December 1994 as the third single from the album Feelin' Good Train. The song reached number 27 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
The song is a ballad about a narrator expressing his nostalgia for his childhood in the Southern United States.
Holly Gleason of CD Review described the song favorably, saying that it "paints a moving picture of emotional displacement."