Distant Drums - Jim Reeves - Instrumental by Dave Monk

"Distant Drums" is the title of a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK number one hit -- albeit posthumously -- in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964. The song remained in the UK charts for 45 weeks. The single also topped the US country chart for four weeks, becoming his most successful posthumous single. Although Roy Orbison had recorded the song in 1963, it is Reeves' version of "Distant Drums" which has endured over the years. Here is my version. I have used a more traditional electric guitar sound with a little added phasing. I had to drop the lower E string down to D# to get the very low note. Anyway, I hope you like it. Dave