As a guitar player, you can probably imagine based on the radio these days that I don’t listen to a ton of pop music. Enter my wife, she has the radio in her mini van dialed into one of the pop stations constantly. If I have to drive I usually listen to something else, but there was one song this year I couldn’t get away from, I heard it in gas stations, restaurants, bathrooms, Wal-Mart. So to get it out my system, I recorded my own version of The Middle, by Zedd and Maren Morris, with my cousin’s Ricky and Ricardo.

Gear nerds, vocals recorded with a Sure SM7B, into a Neve 511. All guitars and bass were recorded with the Line 6 Helix LT.