SMB - 'Bring Me There' with guest vocals

Hi all, here's a new one for you;

Bring Me There

We are delighted to have Tim Wilkinson on vocals on this one!

Larry - acoustic guitar, bass, percussion, mandolin
James - electric guitar, synths
Tim - vocals

Hope you enjoy...

This is a beautiful song.  I love the vocal and melody.  In fact, it was so short and sweet that I wanted more.  My only suggestion would be to turn the bass up a bit to balance the guitars, and maybe the lead vocal, too.  I just listened a second time, and it seems the acoustic gtr. is a bit louder than it needs to be, but that's just my opinion.  Tim is an excellent singer, and he needs to be heard.  All in all, a terrific song.

:-)

But something about the Snare didn't sit right w/me. But hey, I'm listening on a laptop so don't take anything I say sonically with too much weight. 

Treeeeemendous! Loved every second of it!

Very nice guys.  Always a pleasure to hear Tim.  Do you really have to post his singing at the same time as I post mine? He's a hard act to follow

Did you write this?  The lyrics?

I like the arrangement, ditto on bringing the vox up.   Nice guitar work too, both electric and acoustic.  Good tone on the lead as always.

Daryl

Hi Larry, James & Tim,

This is a great piece of music. The melody ( at least to me ) has the quality of sounding familiar/timeless and brand new, at the same time.

Tim's vocal is just fantastic and arrangement and guitar ( and mandolin ) performances are perfect.

Yes, the melody at the start is topnotch, captured me straight away. thought the lead could come closer while the acoustic picking back. The drums and elec guitar are ok. They key change near the mid end was way cool too.

Cian

Thanks John

Thanks Scotty!

Rimshot - thank you, you could be right, it was a toughie to mix, have to take another listen soon.

Thanks Daryl Larry wrote the tune. I sent it to Tim 'cos he likes to hear what we're up to, and within a couple of hours he sent me back a vocal for it, lyrics and all - we were knocked out.

Very cool.  He might have already had some lyrics he was waiting for a melody that would work.

For me the hardest part about writing lyrics is deciding what the song is about, what do I want to say.  Once I know that, the lines come quickly.

Great melody too.  Good job all of you.

Yeah, I'm not going in to another of my well known, man crush Wilkinson rants. But he's someone who I would love to hear sing some of my music. And coming from a singer? That's high praise...

I like it a lot! It sounds really good.

You may want to check it against a Jackson Browne tune. I'm not sure the name of it but it's the story of life on the road followed by "Stay". The first part of it before the drums come in anyway.

Very well done.

abso-bloody-lutely fantastic. once of the best melodies you've ever written James, it's both familiar and fresh, and the vocal line Tim sings to start if off is great. love the change up with the key change and solos, all in all a sonic treat. mixwise, sounds pretty good, at times i'd like to hear a little more body in Tim's voice, which is great on acoustic/pared back stuff but can be a little thin when more instruments get going (maybe some doubling/trebling off to the sides with a touch of chorus or delay, set really low down? or some parallel comp/eq? i dunno!)

Thank you so much Frank, you made our day

Hi Gary - you hit the nail on the head there - when Larry sent me the rough draft of the tune, it immediately sounded like a 'classic', and Tim latched on to it straight away. Thanks a lot.

Thanks very Cian, much appreciated.

Ed - wow is good! Thank you muchly. I honestly don't know about the drum thing, it sounds OK to me, but time will tell.

Thanks Reece!

Daryl - it was very spontaneous, and Tim's lyrics sprang from Larry's title. Great when it happens like that.

Well thank you Grant!

That's an interesting idea Robby - which one do you think would suit him?

Thanks Tim!

Glad you like it Robert There's always something that will sound similar, hard to avoid that

Thanks Bruce, glad it hit the spot.

Mark - many thanks, chuffed you like it, hoped you would. Good ideas on the vocal track, I'll give those a try.