Jun 6, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min · 20 segments
In this episode of the Guitar Music Theory Podcast, Carrie Underwood keyboardist Scott Sheriff returns to help me break down one of the Eagles' most beloved songs, "New Kid in Town." Together, we…
Scott SheriffGuestUm, after the last podcast that we did, at some point you reached out to me and you said, hey, you were working on putting together a whole, essentially a backing track.
So you're singing and playing live keys, um, and then you're just accompanied by tracks, and you, you put all those tracks together.
So you had put together a tr- um, a track for New Kid in Town, and you asked me if I would add the guitar to it.
Yeah, so, um, I basically have plug-ins that, uh, can kind of assimilate the instruments from those eras.
Um, and I take the song measure by measure and kinda transcribe exactly what was going on, and it's painstaking, but eventually the song is over, and you got through the whole thing, and, uh, I've got a great-sounding track.
Sometimes I'll even do the guitar parts on keyboards, and there are certain types of guitar parts that you can get away with, but this song is just fl- it's just flush with guitar parts.
I could never do all of them, so I knew that you had a really discerning ear and could dig into it.
And so it was kind of a, uh, a barter for the last podcast, was, "Hey, why don't you do this?" And I know you love the song, so you did a great job with these tracks.
Johnny come lately.
Um, with the Eaglemaniacs, I don't sing lead on this song, so I'm used to singing the highest background part or the dual harmonies that happen on this song.
But that line right there, I'm just used to singing with Ron Hemby, who sings lead with the Eaglemaniacs, so they came pretty easy.
I already had it charted out because we do this song with Yacht's Landing, which is my yacht rock tribute band.
Um, after the last podcast that we did, at some point you reached out to me and you said, hey, you were working on putting together a whole, essentially a backing track.
So you're singing and playing live keys, um, and then you're just accompanied by tracks, and you, you put all those tracks together.
So you had put together a tr- um, a track for New Kid in Town, and you asked me if I would add the guitar to it.
Yeah, so, um, I basically have plug-ins that, uh, can kind of assimilate the instruments from those eras.
Um, and I take the song measure by measure and kinda transcribe exactly what was going on, and it's painstaking, but eventually the song is over, and you got through the whole thing, and, uh, I've got a great-sounding track.
Sometimes I'll even do the guitar parts on keyboards, and there are certain types of guitar parts that you can get away with, but this song is just fl- it's just flush with guitar parts.
I could never do all of them, so I knew that you had a really discerning ear and could dig into it.
And so it was kind of a, uh, a barter for the last podcast, was, "Hey, why don't you do this?" And I know you love the song, so you did a great job with these tracks.
Johnny come lately.
Um, with the Eaglemaniacs, I don't sing lead on this song, so I'm used to singing the highest background part or the dual harmonies that happen on this song.
But that line right there, I'm just used to singing with Ron Hemby, who sings lead with the Eaglemaniacs, so they came pretty easy.
I already had it charted out because we do this song with Yacht's Landing, which is my yacht rock tribute band.
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