Australian songwriter Ruby Fields charms on new song 'Bottle'o'.
The project has been years in the making, but 2020 proved to be a pivotal year in the songwriter's encapsulation of her work.
“Since I was 17 I’ve been doing the Ruby Fields thing, but I gave myself a break last year to finally come to terms with who I am as a person,” she comments. “Making mistakes is part of life, but in 2020 my self-worth wasn’t validated by who I was on stage. So I’ve been working on being a better friend, partner, bandmate; just a better person.”
This sense of self-realisation appears in her latest missive, which features Ruby along at the piano. Building the song from the ground up, Ruby Fields transforms 'Bottle'o' into something revealing, and quietly impressive.
“I wrote ‘Bottle’o’ in August 2019 living on the old farm waiting for someone to visit, who never made it,” she says. “Went to the shops, tried to get money out and couldn’t. I didn’t have my ID so I had to use cash and my passport to buy beers. Got home and wrote a pretty ordinary poem about it in my opinion but then I sat at a piano and just took it from there and now it might be my favourite.”
Tune in now.
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