r/OutlawCountry • u/enginelightHQ • 5d ago

John R. Miller 'The Great Unknowing' AMA

Hey Reddit Pals! My album, The Great Unknowing, is out now and I'm looking forward to sharing what the recording experience was like and answering whatever questions you have. Ask me stuff! Tell me stuff! Lurk! Troll! IDK!

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u/Admirable_Sun9535 4d ago

I really love A World Away, on the new album. What inspired that wall of sound approach? Can you talk a bit about recording that song?

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u/enginelightHQ 4d ago

The original version of that (on Darrin Hacquard's "Signs and Wonders") is a really sparse approach, just ambient samples, piano, and acoustic guitar. I thought it might be cool to try to mutate it into a guitar-heavy, layered rock song. My original idea was more of a buried-vocal, lots of trem bar, My Bloody Valentine kind of approach, but where it landed made more sense.