I am just in awe at the fact that he NAILED the sound of a single-pickup Telecaster with overdrive… on a fucking SNES soundchip.

This sounds like something you'd hear in a restoration, not the original song.

Devs: Alright, guys, we need country sounding music!
Tim Follin: hey guys i found out how to emulate guitar music

That lead guitar sound is disturbingly convincing for a Super Nintendo. There are modern VSTs that don’t even come close to this.

Hardware: having limitations
Tim Follin: What limitations

Fun fact: Shigeru Miyamoto himself thought this song was impossible, and thought the game was running on a modified SNES console, because he didn’t believe it could make such a convincing harmonica sound

My condolences to Geoff family. A sad moment of gaming history.

This soundtrack came with a free game

The harmonica the real hero of this song. That sound shouldn't have been possible.

RIP Geoff Follin, you blessed us with some of the greatest VGM OSTs and I'll forever be grateful for that. You were truly a master composer and I thank you for your work.

SNES: Has a soundchip that only plays sound samples
Tim Follin: So anyway, I started blasting.

This game's soundtrack takes up an unholy amount of the cartridge space, and I couldn't be happier.

I run a retro games store and so have to test SNES consoles regularly.
I have a copy of Plok set aside especially for this purpose, solely so I can listen to this bloody ripper of a soundtrack.
When I'm done, I'll often leave the music running through the PVM for an hour or so while I work in the background.
Absolute masterpiece.

Everyone here in the comments be forgetting that Geoff, Tim's underrated brother, also composed this soundtrack alongside him, and had an equally as important role.

Rest in peace Geoff Follin. You'll be missed

Rest in peace, Geoff Follin. Forever remembered.

Proof that limitation lead to creativity.

Damn, I can't believe these type of sounds are coming from a SNES!

Tim Follin was one of my favourite composers from the 8-bit era.  I loved his work on the ZX Spectrum.  His SNES work was superb as well, he also done Rock n Roll Racing and, of all things, Thomas the Tank Engine?!?

We lost a legend today, RIP to Geoff Folin.