Anytime you hear Midland sing, one of the first things you notice is their incredible harmonies. Developing harmonies that are so good it almost sounds like they’re related was a lot of hard work, but Cameron Duddy says it was definitely worth it. “I definitely remember a time where we were going to the rehearsal space every single day, seven days a week, and just the three of us around one guitar and a piano and going through our songs and going note for note, word for word, phrase by phrase, figuring out whose parts were going to be what and feeling a real sense of accomplishment once we had gotten through the songs and figured out what our harmonies are going to be.”
The payoff for all that hard work is something Cameron considers the ultimate compliment. He says, “I realize you have to be in a vocal group to really think this is like the most golden compliment someone can give you, but a person said, ‘It sounds like you guys share DNA, the way that you guys sing together, like your voices blend like you’re brothers.’ And I honestly, probably hold that as the highest compliment that anyone’s ever given us.”
You can hear Midland’s great harmonies all over their debut album, On The Rocks, including their latest single, “Make A Little.”
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Cameron Duddy – “I definitely remember a time where we were going to the rehearsal space every single day, seven days a week, and just the three of us around one guitar and a piano and going through our songs and going note for note, word for word, phrase by phrase, figuring out whose parts were going to be what and feeling a real sense of accomplishment once we had gotten through the songs and figured out what our harmonies are going to be. And, I think it was such a high compliment, and this is such a weird thing because I realize you have to be in a vocal group to really think this is like the most golden compliment someone can give you, but a person said, ‘It sounds like you guys share DNA, the way that you guys sing together, like your voices blend like you’re brothers.’ And I honestly, probably hold that as the highest compliment that anyone’s ever given us.”