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Big Drums, AstroTurf and a U-Haul Truck: The Making of Mike Ryan’s ‘Way It Goes’
This week's Makin' Tracks spotlights this song written by Phil Vassar, Andrew Peebles and Brett Sheroky.
Songwriter Brett Sheroky recalls one co-writing session when Vassar disappeared for about 40 minutes, only to return on a Segway, doing circles around a couch in the middle of the room and attempting to juggle while they tried to work through a snag in the composition. Sheroky brought up a fairly common phrase, “The way it goes,” as a sort of loose idea to write around, and Peebles rummaged through chord progressions on his guitar until he found one with a slight Tom Petty vibe — a little toughness, a little mystery, played with a sense of movement. But Todd Lombardo also dropped in an almost-stealthy banjo, with Mike Johnson overdubbing an atmospheric steel guitar that added a touch of western sound, supplying a sense of cowboy isolation as the woman heads off to the horizon.
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