I wrote this song as a reflective Americana piece to capture the mood of driving down the open road in the Southwest with long stretches of open road. I love long drives on roads like this. Its almost therapeutic for your mind and spirit.

I worked on this track for a publisher who was looking songs that sounded like early 70’s Zamrock music playing from a well-worn vinyl LP. Zamrock is a genre that was popular in Zambia in the early 70s that blended influences of hard rock, psychedelic music, funk, and African rhythms. I spent some time working on this track to capture some of the elements into to a piece that sounded cohesive (fuzzed out guitar, wah guitar, congas, organ, etc.) I even had to add some treatment to make the recording sound less hi-fi to fit the era, including static from the old LP. This song has been licensed exclusively to Epitome Music.

This track is part of a collection of Americana retro style tracks that I’m creating for a project. This one is draws on influences of swing, rockabilly, and Gypsy Jazz to create mood that you might hear behind a scene involving a bar room brawl, or gang fight.