abstract:"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.
Layers of cleanly picked guitar, shuffling drums and an organ (or is that a distant train whistle?) weave around Cabic until the whole song sounds like a sigh.