About The Touch
Let's Make It Right
Track Time: 3:43This song’s about struggle and hope.
After an evening of dancing to the music of The Bel Airs, I got up the next day and captured the musical feel of this song. To round it all out, Dave Pruitt and Mike Cherry, of the Bel Airs, ended up playing on the song.
I spent two years trying to figure out the opening riff on this song and just couldn’t get it. We were working on the horns in Memphis and I had communicated what I wanted on all the previous horn arrangements, so Jim Spake (pictured on left with Scott Thompson), saxophone, asked: “What do you want on this one?” I replied: “I’m at a loss on this one. Whatever you guys can come up with would be great.” Jim listened to the track and played along a couple of times until he found a riff and said: “How’s that”? I replied: “That’s great!” Then Scott Thompson, trumpet, said to Jim: “Hey, if you are going to be meandering around like that, you are going to have to write that shit down.” Jim and Scott scribbled the charts out and they knocked it out. Kelley Hunt played one of my favorite solos on the CD on this song. She said: “Robert, what do you want on this one?” I said: “New Orleans, Kelley, New Orleans,” to which she replied: “Okay, I can do that.”
