Remote Possibility

A couple of months ago, out of the blue, a guy named Matt Love contacted me via email about the possibility of some kind of online collaboration. He went on with some spiel about how on Last FM, our music had earned the rare designation of "abnormal." We exchanged some joking emails. I was amused and intrigued and thought what the hell. So we hemmed and hawed about how we would do it. Finally, Matt sent me some lyrics with a vague notion that it would be a countryish truck-diver song.

I liked the lyrics and fiddled with a software banjo until I came of with a line that resembled an actual banjo. I then bracketed it with a dobro bit. I set these to a quickly worked-up bass line and click track. It was very up-tempo, about 200 bpm. I added some talking lyrics (I can't sing) and sent it to Matt. He liked the instrumentation but struggled to come up with a vocal melody. So he shopped around for someone to do the vocals.

Well, the project sat around for a month or more until suddenly, Matt's friend, Vincent sends Matt a workup of the whole song complete with vocals, effects, piano, harp and guitar. I was tickled by it. But, being a budding sound engineer, I wanted to remix it. Fortunately, Vincent's individual tracks were available for download. I re-did the bass and drums and came up with a mix that, apparently, everybody was happy with.

Here it is ... Coked Up in Kentucky

The artist here is Remote Possibility, Matt's online band brainchild. It appears that some of the stories about the band may be fictionalized.