Bill Gable's 2003 release "This Perfect Day" was co-produced with Roscoe Beck and featured a highly diverse array of songwriting and production styles, with Gable on vocals, guitars and keyboards; Steve Rodby (Pat Metheny Group) on bass, Tom Brechtlein (Rickie Lee Jones, Leonard Cohen) on drums; Luis Conte (Madonna, Eric Clapton) and Alex Acuna (Weather Report, U2) on percussion; Bob Sheppard (Steely Dan, Lyle Mays) on flute; and Dino Saluzzi on bandoneon.  An intentionally extravagant and ambitious project that drew from wildly diverse influences ranging from Elvin Jones to Debussy to Patato y Totico, it featured distinctive arrangements by Stephen Barber (Joe Zawinul, David Byrne) and Bill Ginn (Leonard Cohen, Carole King) and a wide range of eclectic elements and musical styles. 

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(Arr. by Stephen Barber)

Bill Gable: guitar, synth, percussion and vocals
Steve Rodby: acoustic bass
Tom Brechtlein: drums
Roscoe Beck: fretless bass and vocals
Heitor Pereira: electric guitars
Lenny Castro: congas
Mark Hatch: trumpet
Joe Meyer: french horn
Judd Miller: EVI (tuba and piccolo trumpet)

This is another odd-meter songs that I really enjoy singing due to the lope.  And I always particularly enjoyed the unbridled optimism of this song.

This song, like the album, was recorded in stages, the majority of it in the early 1990s but with various overdubs around 2000-2002.  The horn charts were written by Stephen Barber.  In re-reading the credits I see the amazing Judd Miller played both the tuba and piccolo trumpet parts on his EVI.  (I believe I first met Judd working on this song, and we wound up working together many times since then up to the present.)  During the later overdubbing phase, Heitor Teixeira-Pereira came over one day and overdubbed electric guitar, playing it both conventionally and unconventionally with large pencil erasers…another really creative guy!

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Bill Gable is an uncompromising singer-songwriter whose albums straddle the boundaries between pop, jazz and world music. More than six years in the making, his forthcoming new album "NO STRAIGHT LINES" was written during travels to Spain, Portugal and Morocco and draw from musical and literary sources from that region. 