Well... I don't think that Dave Duddley ever thaught that his song could be such damned good. This voice, the instruments and the arrangement... best version ever.
I especially appreciate the slow build, very similar to an eighteen wheeler coming up to speed, becoming nearly unstoppable once that speed is reached.
Hi, Steve, thx so much for this special version. I tried to find the title - no change. Now I'm gonna create a cover version with my own sound, played in my Gruftie barn. Bye for now Gruftierocker
Hi Steve. I wrote the lyrics to "That's Why I'm Broke". I don't ever remember Jim being late for rehearsal. The lyrics came about this way: We were working on a new song, no lyrics yet. Jim and I argued about who was going to get to sing the song - him or me. Jim won (thank God! His vocal is iconic!). So I was pissed and I went home to write the lyrics. These lyrics were never intended to eventually be the actual lyrics to the song. I wrote these lyrics as a trick I wanted to play on Jim. I knew that at our next rehearsal, as we stood there ready to play, I would hand these lyrics to Jim and we'd just run the tune, with Jim reading and singing the lyrics for the first time. Now these lyrics can be tough to spit out in time. But the version I handed Jim had about six syllables too many in the final verse. It was literally impossible to sing - impossible to fit all those syllables into the last line of the verse. I'll never forget Jim's face as he was trying to spit out all those words and fit them into the line. I'm laughing about it even now, as I am typing. Well, the trick was played, but everybody loved these lyrics and wanted to use them. So I pruned the extra words from the third verse and voila! These became the lyrics to "That's Why I'm Broke". Incidentally, Jim wrote the chorus ("That's where the money goes, restaurants and fancy clothes, etc.") By the way, it's pretty cool hearing this song on RU-vid. Thanks!
You must be a wanna be reporter bothering a very calm and collective Air Force pilot with the USAF Show Team. Dude, all of your questions, you can see through her glasses, she's saying "OMG who is this guy, does he think he's famous?" Really dude, you just embarrassed the USAF with your pancake belly eating diet that not even a C5 galaxy can handle. You're a douche