This week's Makin' Tracks features Old Dominion's new song 'Coming Home.'
From the first five rows at a concert, the life of a touring artist looks pretty glamorous – singing songs for an adoring audience and for big bucks.
They focused first on the chorus, slipping in a line about a “Midnight Rider” that kind of celebrates The Allman Brothers Band, even if it isn’t really about them. “They were road dogs like we are,” Ramsey says. “We have that connection.” “As a group, they’re ADHD,” McAnally says. “If you put all those personalities together, it’s like, ‘Oh, what about this?’ ‘What about this?’ And no one’s ever going, ‘That’s great.’ With Brad especially, everything he starts to play sounds so cool. But he played that lick, and it described everything perfectly through a guitar lick. I knew what the song was. I think that was the extent of my – quote – ‘production.’ It’s was just going, ‘Do not change that.
“Sometimes,” Ramsey says, “you have to have that discussion of, ‘OK, it feels really good, but is it serving the message of the song as best as possible? Are we paying attention to the lyric, rather than just going in there?’ Because we love slamming and rocking the hell out of it.” Tursi also added a gurgling six-string banjo part at the start of the second verse that helps lift toward that all-out energy. One additional percussive nuance came when McAnally floated the idea of dropping militaristic snare rolls after the “coming home from war” hook. Sellers took the cue, making them apparent, but not too obvious.
“It’s not like I’m a virtuoso,” he says with a laugh. “I was like, ‘Just let me give it a shot.’ I went in, and I played it, and then I could hear everybody in the control room going, ‘What the fuck was that, man? We’ve known you for 25 years, and you’ve never told us that you could do that.’”
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