Philz, Bapu, Scottytunes, Twisted6s and Danny Danzi team up on “Rough Patch”

I originally posted Rough Patch back in January, but, somehow, the arrangement didn’t feel complete to me.  I wondered what it would sound like with a fiddle in there, so, I contacted Scott “Scottytunes” Campbell who had really liked the song, and he generously agreed to give it a shot.  Almost instantly I had 4 world class fiddle tracks, that gave the tune a whole new feel.
 
The other part I wasn’t thrilled with were my vocals in the chorus which I felt were decent, but not really what I was after.  Enter my fellow ‘LawnGuyLander,’ Mr. “Twisted6s,” Tony Pruden, who re-did my chorus vocals in his own inimitable style, and I now had 5 ‘to die for’ vocal tracks for the choruses.  Rough Patch was now feeling like it had the country-rock-soul feel that I wanted.
 
I started doing mixes and sent them off to my CHB bandmates Danny Danzi and Ed “Bapu” Kocol for comments.  Well, Danny really got into the tune, and wound up adding 4 amazing guitar tracks.  After some more mixes Danny decided that what the song really needed was real drums played by a real drummer (him), and, man, was he ever right (I have learned that Danny is almost never wrong).  My original EZ Drummer drums survived for about 3 bars in the intro, and then it’s all Danny.  Now that we had real drums, Ed decided that his original bass part just wasn’t what the tune now called for.  Not to be outdone in the redoing department, Ed redid his bass part maybe 5 or 6 times, each one of which, mind you, was just great.
 
More mixes follow with Danny whipping my butt, mentoring and teaching me the whole way, and finally it was off to Danny for his impeccable mastering touch.  I’m just thrilled with the finished product, and hope you folks will enjoy it too.  It's the top tune on my Soundclick link (in my sig), or play the hi-res mp3 http://db.tt/xuhhigL.
 
To finish off a long-ish post, I just wanted to add my heart felt thanks to all of my collaborators on this, each of whom added his own special talents to the song.  I feel like one really lucky guy to have been blessed with so many gifted people contributing to my tune.

Hi Phil, that is some production ! Lots of talent on show here, very professional sounding.

Greetings, Rik

Sometimes this forum throws up a pearl - here's one! Fantastic, and what a band.

Yeah I remember this one :-) This is pretty cool. I love the textures. It's funny because I wouldn't have heard the fiddle in the production, but it's really cool. Tony's vocals are really cool :-) And that chick that's singing with him? She is the ****... This unlikely collaboration turned in to one of the nicest tunes I've ever heard on here. This is freaking awesome! 

Great job gentlemen..

We're like The Traveling Wilburys....except cooler

Wonderful guys!!!! But where's the bass solo?????

Wow guys!  Awesome track here!  I also feel the convoy vibe, but I always liked the convoy vibe.
 

We're like Velvet Revolver........only cooler

morenoise


Hi Phil, that is some production ! Lots of talent on show here, very professional sounding.

Greetings, Rik

Many thanks, Rik. 

This knocked me out... I love it...

twisted6s


We're like The Traveling Wilburys....except cooler

Wait, YOU'RE the Tony that sang on this?! Dude, I luv your voice and material! I had no clue this was you...wow!When Phil had refered to someone named "Tony" I had no clue it was the infamous "twisted6s"!!! Man...this is awesome!
 
Thanks for the kind words and listens everyone. Just a quick note...Phil gives me quite a bit of credit, but he did all the work here and mixed this monster. I was calling the song title "jungle juice" for the longest time due to all the styles etc. Upon listening further, I kinda though a sound similar to "Shes Country" would have worked well with this which is why I added in the drive guitars to add some edge to it. Threw in a slide and pedal steel and it really started to take form. That said, the tune was already great before I got involved and didn't need me or anything I had to offer. I was just pleased to be a part of it. Thanks Phil, I had a blast on this also brother and you did a fabulous job and so did all the musicians on this...what a monster piece. :)

Let me tell you all that working with Danny and Phil on this song was fun and a fruitful learning experience too.

I'm proud to have been a small part of tune that is being received so well.

Thanks again all and especially Phil & Danny.

Talk about the right ingredients!  All I can say is wow!!!!

Great song, very well done guys convoy vibe with an Eagles flair!  Top notch production and mix, could and should be on the radio!

Dan