Recording a Song With Pro Musicians 

For those of you asking when this song is going to be released, this was just a live tracking session with one slide guitar overdub. It was never meant to be released and is a rough mix. Feel free to listen to it on the video. Thanks!

I would DEFINITELY love to see more content like this. The process in the studio is fascinating. Beautiful song.

Rick, this would make an amazing ongoing series. Get a room full of session players, take a new song by an up-and-coming songwriter, and show the process of making it into a radio-ready demo. Edit each episode down to 20 or 25 minutes. Showcase all the talent, and educate newer musicians about what they can aspire to and how. I would watch every episode, no matter what style of music is being produced.

I love seeing these, Rick. I am 83 yrs old and I played road gigs and did studio work since the sixties, So This felt like old homes week

God that was beautiful. We need songs like this on the radio

An hour with Tom would be gold Rick.

There's something magical about this mix. It's not overmixed. Instruments sound natural; I don’t hear processing, I hear just the pure gold of amazing musicians doing their thing. I feel like I’m right there in the studio. This mix sounds gentle and warm, it’s like getting a hug.

It's so refreshing to hear this, it´s obviously not overproduced at all (or even produced?) and that just feels human and heartwarming. Felt like hearing an old Fleetwood mac song but with todays quality. Great work from everyone involved. Killer for a "just for fun" thing.

I'm a professional violinist in the SoCal region and that session was not only creamy, but even the ambiance was a breath of fresh air....my next goal -> record in Nashville!

This is the heart of Nashville -- pros who play just the right thing to make the song all it can be. It would be cool also to see a long-form video of this session to hear the discussion of parts, how they decided what to put in and what to leave out. That in-between discussion when the individual parts have been worked out and everyone has to come together into one cohesive final product - that's the stuff so many amateur players haven't experienced. It's the difference between just playing your part well and playing for the song.

Thank the heavens there is still talent like this! Real music, real instruments, real musicians, nailing it live from the floor. If I listen to it again I know I will cry...

I love this so much. Please do more of these. There is a deep hunger for this out there. Thank you for your wonderful channel.

Definitely more of this!!!!!!! Loved the process and the song.

The drummer. Chris Mchugh, played beautifully throughout, accentuating tempo changes, moods, timing etc. making it seamless. The epitome of not missing a beat. Yes, please do more!

So glad you featured Uncle Larry. He is a living gift to the community.

So cool, I'd love to see and hear more content like this. Thank you!!!

please produce more content like this. I absolutely love it. It is so inspiring. thx

One thing that perhaps gets overlooked in these videos is just how good it looks. The lighting for example is sublime. Rick has definitely got visual production skills along with everything else.

Uncle Larry got me through the pandemic. Tom is a musical treasure trove.

Love it! Yes more content like this please! Love learning about the process, and the working together.

Damn!!! That was great! Keep up the good work and I would love to see more of this type of work. I would enjoy hearing what each person's impression of the project was.

Would love to see a full length interview with Tom. Rick always brings out the best in his guests!

Beautiful = a real song with actual musicians, a bridge, a surprise chord, a guitar solo, perfect drum fills and hits, airy vocals without fluff runs, and a final double chorus with a build up … that was really nice. I’d buy it!

Beautiful song and great sound of the instruments. Love to see more videos like this one. Really enjoy your channel, Rick 🙂

Love this video a lot Rick! Please do more! Thank you!!!

Yes definitely And please longer with more details about arrangement and coming up with parts

How can this not be a #1 hit on the country charts the harmonies are unreal the production is perfect as a musician this makes me happy happy happy 🙂

Yes, I'd love to see more content like this! The song is also phenomenal

Absolute beautiful track! Beautiful studio! Vocals are smooth as butter!

Oh my God, REAL music. What a shot of fresh air this is for all of us. More please, yes thank you!

Simply beautiful! Thank you for sharing Rick!

Loved it! Been a subscriber for years and have shared your outstanding videos with several friends who are musicians. 👍

Tom is a true treasure. I’ve been playing guitar and writing parts for 26 years and I’ve learned more from Tom in the last 2 years, than I’ve learned in the last 15. Love that guy.

Yes! Please! More! No pressure, no commercial interests, no targets. Nothing can beat a bunch of pros just making fine music in a relaxed atmosphere.

YES! I would love to see more videos on the recording, mixing, and mastering of music.

Love it. Super cool. Great approach, fitting all this into 8min. More please. Appreciate the intros of the pros here too. Love the song and result too!

Rick, you ABSOLUTELY need to make more content like this!! This is what I have been waiting for from you for such a long time. Thank you for this! Cheers!

Being in Nashville, I can tell you these are first-call guys, from Buckley to Daniel to Tom. And Cecilia is an up and coming talent I’ve written with that is going to be huge soon!

You never cease to amaze us with your surprises. Loved it and sure would want more of this in future, Thank you Rick!

Awesome video. Nice song and nice inside look at a recording session. Yes, please make more like this.

How about we just go into the studio and bang out a perfectly played and recorded new song in a couple hours?? Holy crap this is fantastic.

Please, More Tom Bukovac , I love seeing inside the studio and I love Tom’s playing

Oh my word, yes! I'd love to see more of this stuff. The individual musician's knowledge and comfort level with the process is inspiring. Great song, too!!

Very good musicians and a beautiful song. Definitely keep content like this coming!

I love the "less is more" approach. No vocal histrionics, no guitar wizzardry. Everything fitted nicely into place, straight 4:4 drums, a bit of Rhodes for layering, nice rumbling bass, some acoustic coloring, lil bit of tasty slide guitar, lovely vocals, all subtly accentuated by a second singer just a bit back from the mike, and LOTS of space.

Tom Bukovac aka (Uncle Larry) is a great inspiration and his feel on the axe is second to none. Thank you Rick and yes please, more like this.

Would surely love to watch more like this in the future - with you involved of course!!👍 another great piece of work!

Of all the musicians, the drummer is who stands out for me. Those drum breaks are just what the song needs! Great video

The potential of this format is practically limitless. There are so many directions and angles you could take. Talking to the session players, the writers, the engineers, everyone involved. Not to mention showcasing fresh new (or even old) talent, and on and on.

Rick thank you so much for allways bringing great content, it´s an amazing touching song. I like to hear more about the players and their influences

Fantastic!!!! Congrats!!! Really enjoy this type of content. Hello from Mexico!

YES!! more!! Please interview Mr. Bukovac, it would be amazing, a harmonic convergence, thank you Mr. Beato!

I was invited up to a Nashville recording session by Tom Wild, a 30+ year session vet. He was both BJ Thomas's & Billy Joe Royal's band leader and featured on PBS's "The Session Players" series to boot. . Great fun watching and sitting next to Tom and watching him record a segment of a gospel track. Tom looked at his watch and said to watch as the red spotlight was about to buzz. Almost to the second the light brightened and he buzzed 2 black gal backup singers. Right in the vocal room they went, shut the door and looked at the chart of a song they had never seen before. They read all the notes, ask each other which part they felt like singing, high/ low and said, "We're ready. Music cued and away they went. . 1st try, and Tommy says,"I think you got it." One gal said check meas 24. I think I missed a note. Rewind, Anadise Pitch correction showed a note barely flat, under the line. Tommy and at looked at each other and could not hear it. He said, "Do you want a 2nd take?". She replied, "Yea, just in case". Tommy," Rolling"... Take 2 :She actually pitch corrected her vocal. Tom and I just looked in amazement at it on the computer screen. She said, "Yup! We nailed it!" Tom, "Yea, perfect, ladies!" And out the booth and door they went. Tom started laughing at my flabbergasted expression (since that whole episode was less than 15 minutes) and quipped, "Yea, the bar's set pretty high here in Nashville". Uh, yea, I guess so! Whew! Somehow, I managed to survived a lovely afternoon w/ a very gracious host and studio pro, to say the least.

Wow! Yes, more content like that! Great to hear great new music - so rare...

Rick, you constantly stay on track to feed us all amazing content. Such talent from everyone and the song was beautifully written and performed by Cecilia and Daniel along with the incredible musicians. Would definitely love to see more of this type of video. Loved it my friend. Thank you.

We DEFINITELY need more content like this! As someone who is struggling to find their way in the world of recording this kind of content is priceless. Thank you!

An in-depth interview with Chris McHugh is DYING to be made! The man is an absolute beast,, on of the best pocket drummers of our time! Make it happen, Rick.

That was a lot of fun to watch and to hear the description of all that was going on!! I would love more content just like this!

Yes. More of this content! Very inspiring and informative

Talented, real musicians playing real instruments and singing with real voices! American music is still alive!! This was fantastic. Hat's off to Tom Bukovac for coming up with the idea. Please do this again.

Such TASTE on the drumfill at 7:41. Wow!

Yes more content like this would be great! Love to see session players play! All the musician had a perfect pocket they filled in the 100% for sure! Great video Rick

That was very intriguing and entertaining. Yes, more of that with interviews of the session players and engineers.

Loved the session song. The young lady had a wonderful voice. The musicians were all good, tight groove. Yes, would love to see more like this!

What a drummer. Everyone else, amazing. Looks like you’ve landed on your feet, Uncle Rick.

LOVE to watch pros at work. Keep it coming!

Amazing content!!! We want more! THANK YOU!

Yes for sure more of this. I'd love to hear more of the musicians' process of working out their parts, a more detailed look at how the chart is constructed, how much of everything is set up already beforehand in the studio regarding miking, headphones etc. All the good stuff!

This would be the ultimate series with Rick producing stellar musicians and explaining the process from the producer's and engineer's perspectives.

Sounds so good...the process and inside look is priceless. Thank You Rick.

Absolutely amazing ❤ Love the song, and everything about this Rick! Keep doing it ✌️❤️🎸

Freaking unbelievable!!! More more more! You could develop an entire You Tube channel with just that concept. I'd watch it everyday! Great players and vocals...Buko is in a class by himself. Everything he plays is so spot on and tasty...channeled right from his soul with no flash. Perfect. Thank you Rick. Amazing idea. Big fan!

Love watching these talented folks record a song from the ground up. Yes, more of this, please!

What a beauty song, amazing session players 👍 Definitely need more content like this

Your channel is a gift to all of us. Yes, please more of this kind of content, watching how you put together a track.

Rick, that was SO MUCH FUN! I just love watching people who are really, really good at what they do. (This includes you, my friend!) It's a great song, too. More please!

Wow. Great to see the Nasville pros do what they do behind the scenes.

This is sublime, really loved the whole concept and totally enjoyed the music by truly artistic musicians. Please do more - make an album!

This is the content I've been waiting for for so long. Lovely song too

I’ve listened to this song about 20 times in the past few days. I love it! It should be released on ITunes and on the radio. Thank you

The musicians really impressed me, top notch professionals every single one of them! I LOVE her voice, lots of soul, beautiful! Well done y'all!

That was awesome. Yes, please do more videos like this.

Love this project. Please do some more of these.

This was amazing, Rick. Yes, more please! They were all fantastic but for some reason the older I get the more I appreciate great, tasteful drumming, and this fellow really nailed it.

Lot of touchstones in this one for me. I've done a lot of time on that studio, last time being an Elvis Costello record that T Bone Burnett produced. Bukovac is a friend and Juanita, the studio manager, is like family to me. Great to see Rick do this and to have the nuts and bolts of a Nashville session highlighted for the curious.

I cant tell you Rick, how encouraging this is. Real music, on real instruments by people with talent and passion, who know how to pass that passion down to an audience. I sometimes lose hope listening to popular music, but I hear this more and more, especially with young people; musicians realizing how rewarding it is to channel their emotions through the act of writing and playing real music. Lovely song, beautifully and simply done, and the process was wonderful to watch...

Yes, would like to see this kind of video again in the future, keep it coming. It's awesome👍👏😊!

Great song! Beautiful vocal and harmony! For me it had a Fleetwood Mac feel, especially the drums. I'll listen to this again.

That vintage Rogers drum set sounds perfect. Always did think their snare drums sounded absolutely killer!!

Love it Rick! Do more of these please!

I'd love to see more stuff like this, its cool seeing pro's lay it down in the studio and also very cool to showcase the singers and songwriters.

Chris McHugh! Been a fan since his Whiteheart days...such a great drummer! Great video Rick...more of this!

It looks and sounds effortlles but only we know what it takes to make it sound and look as it is here. True craftsmanship and talent!!! This is gold!! Beautifull song.

Fabulous. PLEASE, Rick, more content like this! I will play it for my audio students. I'm a professor who teaches advanced audio, and this is SO helpful.

Oh Rick, I'm in love with all of this. Man, we just don't get quality like this in the UK. I don't think I can press the subscribe button enough times. That song, setup, everything just fantastic. Thank you so much from us here over the other side of the pond! Thank you. A+++++++

That looked fun! Definitely more of these but with MORE BEHIND THE SCENES in the sausage making!

Yes yes yes. More of this, and in greater detail. What a great sounding track. Must have been an ace producer! The instruments sounded fantastic and her voice was just lovely. Simply wonderful. Thank you.

Love to see more of this, it was inspiring!!

This is such a beautiful sounding song.I would certainly like to see more content like this in the future.

There was not one millisecond of this I didn't enjoy! Song.....Stunning! Playing....Stunning! Of course, more!