I'm Here to Give You the Bad News

Robert James

Written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in March 2023. I’m thinking of trying to record a single each month this year. This would be the A side for March.

The idea started bubbling up in my head at the tail end of the RPM Challenge in February but I didn’t get to it until the project was over so here it is a month later. It feels like the rhythm guitar parts are as close as I’ll ever come to being Stevie Ray Vaughn. No offense to Stevie Ray.

The rhythm guitar tracks are my Les Paul Standard into a Chicago Stompworks Blooze Maker into a Fender Deluxe Reverb. The leads are the same guitar and amp with the pedal chain a Dunlop Crybaby (the Gary Clark, Jr signature model) into the Blooze Maker into a Wampler Tumnus.

Verse 1

I’m here to give you the bad news

I’m here to lower the boom

Come for the alternate views

And do whatever you choose

There’s no avoiding the confused

It’s up to you

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Chorus

Come see all the things we have in store

Experience it all and so much more

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Verse 2

One up ahead of the come down

Last chance before it comes ‘round

so many ways to compound

every thought seems so profound

Show me that everything we’ve found

is safe and sound

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Outro

It all happens

Come along with me