In this week’s Makin’ Tracks column, Robb says, “I think it takes heartbreak in this town to prepare you for the really good stuff.”
But it sure fits independent artist Teddy Robb. He had a near-miss on a relationship, meeting a woman he thought was his soul mate just days before she moved to Los Angeles to live with her boyfriend. He had a near-miss on a songwriting opportunity when Old Dominion guitarist Brad Tursi started — and finished — a song about Robb’s almost-relationship before Robb had arrived for a writing appointment.
During the evening, they ran into Tursi, and the party expanded. “We hung out that night, and everyone kind of slept over at my house,” recalls Tursi. “We just stayed up late and indulged ourselves in music and all the other things you can indulge yourself with, and then I guess the next day, they’d really fallen for each other.”
Tursi stumbled across some melancholy chords and began recounting Robb’s heartbreaking tale with conversational, out-of-meter lines about meeting over drinks and forming a seemingly doomed connection. It eased into an aching chorus melody that accompanied an accurate summation — “Right person, wrong time” — with the singer adhering more closely to the beat for singalong ease, even as he reveals his anger toward God.
“I was flattered because it was so accurate — Brad paid attention so well to our story,” Robb says. “I mean, I’m still a kid from Akron [Ohio] who moved to Nashville to write songs and playOn March 25, following a send-off dinner for Lawson, Tursi played “Universe” for the ill-fated couple on piano at his house, reflecting their turmoil back to them even as they lived it out. Tursi stealthily whispered to Lawson that he knew she was gone for good.
They recorded it on July 22, 2022 — four months after it had been written — at Good’s Stone Jag Studio with drummer Evan Hutchings, bassist Craig Young, guitarist Sol Philcox-Littlefield and pianist Alex Wright. The team agreed with Robb that they should break some rules with it. “It stretched me vocally,” Robb says. “I just tried to do my best to sing what I was feeling, and so that’s probably why it feels like it pushes and pulls, as far as the meter goes. [The feeling’s] important when you’re telling a story like that.”
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