.OldDominion's Matthew Ramsey discusses working with Gladys Knight, and getting inspiration from ChiliPeppers.
, out Friday , Old Dominion's members -- Ramsey, guitarist/keyboardist Trevor Rosen, guitarist Brad Tursi, drummer Whit Sellers, and bassist Geoff Sprung --took a similar route, decamping from Nashville to Echo Mountain Recording Studios in Asheville, N.C., for nearly three weeks in late September 2020. Instead of entering the studio with songs already conceived, each day they woke up, wrote a song in the morning, recorded the song in the afternoon and repeated the process the following day.
“Sometimes, tracking sessions are so fast. You’re like, ‘Brad, play a guitar line.' He plays it and it’s like, ‘Good enough, let’s move on,’” Ramsey adds. “But here, the tracking was an extension of the writing session. It’s great to take that energy directly into the studio and capture it right there. Plus, we have this confidence that we’ve grown into over the years.
The quintet’s already well-honed jam-band vibe and hook-filled songwriting get an extra luster this time around, as they detail stories of love, loss and ultimately contentment with the whole process. There’s more space for creative risk and exploration, as they intertwine country song structures, churning R&B, island influences, and coolly thick harmonies across the project’s 13 tracks.
Another moment of meant-to-be spontaneousness resulted in soul music icon Gladys Knight joining them on “Lonely Side of Town.”
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