A wee soupcon of steel in this track.

[Danny Mitchell]

A friend, Mick, asked me to put together a track for a song he had written as a tribute to one of his pals that had, sadly, passed away.
Mick sent me the top line, by singing into his phone, and we ended up with this. I put a wee bit of steel in there, on the down low, as I felt it was all about the lyrics. Also, Mick had never sung before, but I thought he had to sing it because of the personal message, and I was pleased with the result.

[Malcolm]

Excellent work Danny, have always admired your engineering and production skills, not forgetting your musical ability.To my mind you are the best engineer I had the pleasure of working with.

[Danny Mitchell]

Thanks for those kind words Malcolm, and you were the very man that turned me on to this damned instrument in the first place! So, thank you again!

[Jif]

Nice work Danny, the song works really well, the emotion involved comes through clear. Did you do all the instrumentation on it?

[Danny Mitchell]

Thanks Geoff.
Yes, it's all me, all done in Hillington Hot Sounds Studio (my bedroom), except for the vocals, Chris Judge, a tremendous singer from Grangemouth took care of the backing vocals. I recorded him and Mick in a rehearsal room. He was slated to sing it, but I thought it was such a personal song it was better coming from Mick.

[Jif]

Impressive Danny, yeah Mick isn't the most professional of singers but as you say, as it is his song etc the emotion behind it comes through well. He is a decent singer though considering he has never done anything like this before.

[Uncle Roy]

Danny and Mick, well done, I like that and loved the Gospel feel backing singers.
Nice song!

[Danny Mitchell]

Aye, although Mick had never sung before, he was the drummer in a signed band, James King & The Lonewolves, and the guy who started the studio I worked at, at the fag end of my career (wit career!!!).

[Danny Mitchell]

Thanks Roy, it's one guy doing the 'gospel choir', a very talented singer, he's currently on a world tour with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, we were lucky to catch him.

[Donny Johnston]

Danny, you never fail to make me sit up and listen. Nice. Regards. LDN.