Gotta Be Somebody Else's Blues

Album: Chase This Light (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • Frontman Jim Adkins told ultimate-guitar.com how this song took shape: "That one was totally pieced together. I had always been writing with like a 4-track. As time has gone on, it started out with like a cassette format 4-track and then moved up to like a Tascam studio format multi-track thing. Writing and recording are kind of the same thing now. With 'Blues,' I think that was probably like the drum beat first. Everything kind of fell in from there."

Comments: 3

  • C-slyce from ArizonaOne of my favorite JEW songs. Reminds me of Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song”
  • Josh from DenverThe intro to Making of a Murderer sounds a lot like this
  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnSpooky song, that's a good thing.
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