...That was an observation Jim Reeves liked to make. Music really is the universal language.

One of my musicians called my attention to this video, and in viewing it, I was reminded of how much this resembles how we put together the overdub CDs I work on. I tap the talents of musicians literally around the world; some in Nashville, some in Atlanta, others in the Carolinas, or in Europe, etc. We assemble these tracks from the individual parts that are played by top musicians sometimes thousands of miles apart. And yet the finished product has a cohesion that makes it all come together.

Click the link below to hear this old Otis Redding song, and how it has acquired new life, as breathed into it by a diversity of talented street performers. I find it enthralling...