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This is the Good News

from A Murder of Songs by Grant Peeples

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About four years ago I handed-off to Danny Goddard some
disconnected lyrics I had jotted down. He shook them out like a
dusty blanket, and wrote a song. This track is a complete Goddard
creation, (though he likes to say his approach on the guitar is a
“direct rip-off ” of our friend, the incomparable Frank Lindamood.)
Danny plays every instrument on the song, including the guitar—
which he made.

lyrics

This is the Good News by Danny Goddard, Grant Peeples

All the heads are talking ‘bout what’s going down
All the good folks know it don’t matter any how
Big boom on the morning news, orphaned by lunch
They got a new one coming down, call it a hunch
Anything is possible when nothing is for sure
Anyone can do these things, things never done before
This is the good news, this is the bad news
It’s a crime to live in peace, they got us in the dark
Is it a crime of consciousness, or a crime of the heart
You see the big man came to town, he’s gonna take a shot
Is he the villain that we need, or just the only one we’ve got?
Anything is possible when nothing is for sure
Anyone can do these things, things never done before
This is the good news, this is the bad news
Listen to the children, hear what the children say.
They’re crying out for peace and love, they’re crying for today
Might have to leave here soon - start a new old way.
We gotta make it out so it don’t catch up with us someday
Anything is possible when nothing is for sure
Anyone can do these things, things never done before
This is the good news, this is the bad news…
This is the bad news

credits

from A Murder of Songs, released February 21, 2023
Danny Goddard plays every instrument on the song, including the guitar—
which he made. He plays hand drums, and shakes the “custom
organic steel cut oats shaker.” He also twists the knobs of a little
electronic thingy called a Volca Modular Synth, which looks like
it came out of the back room of an old Radio Shack store. Brian
Durham added the background vocals. All of the tracking was
done at Log Cabin Studio in Tallahassee, with Danny and Kris Kolp
engineering. We started with Danny laying down the vocal track to
give me some orientation. So, yes: there is a version of this song in
the archives with Danny doing the lead vocal over the exact same
music bed. One of these days…

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Grant Peeples Tallahassee, Florida

A self-described “tree-hugger that watches NASCAR, and Buddhist with a gun below the seat,” Grant Peeples is known for his axe-sharp socio-political tunes, raucous humor and heart-gigging ballads.
He is the recipient of the Focus Foundation Award for Creative Excellence, which cited the “humor, compassion and wisdom of his songs,” and their "unflinching social insight and cultural acuity." ... more

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