I did some research and found a song called ‘Anytime’ by Emmett Miller which sold one million copies in 1923 and that was the key to unlocking the project.” How so? It shines a light on the roots of American popular music. So I was able to go back in time, tap into my earliest influences, but re-imagine them through the lens of who I am today. I was a folk blues guitar player and singer and when I moved to Nashville 10 years ago, I became part of the Americana roots community and in doing so, I began to meet and play with musicians who had those same influences.
“It was inspired by the music I was making before I met Daryl Hall. How did you choose which songs to cover for it? So I think he and I will probably do our best work when we’re physically together and because we’re not, we’ll just put it on hold for a while and see what happens.” You’ve also just released your own concert album, ‘Live in Nashville’, with your Americana side project The Good Road Band. But when COVID broke everything down, it put the brakes on it. We were sending each other tracks and we were starting to formulate – we didn’t know what we were going to do or what style we were going to end up with. Daryl and I were set to do some recording and when everything broke down, we had exchanged ideas. “We were supposed to be working on an album. Have you been working on any new Daryl Hall & John Oates music? He thought that was too flowery for a pop song! What the hell did he know? One billion streams later…” And counting! You were supposed to be touring this year before COVID came along. He said: ‘Who do you guys think you are? Wordsworth?’, because the lyrics went: ‘ Like the flame that burns the candle/The candle feeds the flame’. Funnily enough, when we finished writing that song, our manager didn’t like it that much. “It’s such a simple sentiment – You Make My Dreams Come True. It’s an amazing feel-good groove and it has a great timeless appeal.” It seems like the type of buoyant track that people might stream to cheer them up during the time of COVID-19… From there on, it took on this life of its own.
MY DREAMS COME TRUE MOVIE
A lot of it started with its use in the movie 500 Days of Summer and the dance sequence they created around that song. It’s become this anthemic feel-good thing. Over the years, it’s taken on a life of its own. We couldn’t have predicted the impact it would have. John Oates: “It’s amazing, right? What really gets me about this is when the song ‘You Make My Dreams’ was released as a single in 1981, it wasn’t a massive Number One hit – it reached Number Five in the US.
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