Years before he took a job with a highway construction company, he wrote a tune about his driving experience for "Car Talk" on National Public Radio.
At first, the Needham firm wrote a tune to lyrics by Warren Pfaff, a freelance copywriter, that went: "We're so near and far away.
While going through a rough patch a couple of decades ago, I wrote a tune that could, sadly, serve as a soundtrack to the disgraceful Washington gridlock over the budget, the debt ceiling, and America's fiscal future.
The next day, Jason Trachtenburg, Rachel's father, a struggling singer-songwriter, sat down at his Casio keyboard and wrote a tune (called "Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959," naturally) with lyrics that provided a story to accompany the slides.
The man who is singing these red-blooded songs about candidates of yesteryear is a Canadian-American -- born in Winnipeg, he wrote a tune he says could have become the Canadian national anthem.
They've even got a frontman who, like Chris Martin, has pretensions towards diversification - just as Martin has collaborated with Swiss Beatz and Kanye West and once wrote a tune for R&B singer Jamelia, the Grammy-nominated writer/producer Tedder has written and produced tracks with/for, among others, Natasha Bedingfield, Jennifer Lopez, Lil' Jon, tATu and Bubba Sparxxx.
