BIG BAD JIM

First Take Friday - Episode 52
BIG BAD JIM
Written by Jonathan Brader

Tale of the Tune:
This tune is the 3rd song in the Western set.
 
The villain in our story is Big Bad Jim.
 
He started out life, in my head, as just a cattle thief, but this morning I was thinking it would be way more fun if he was a really bad dude.
 
So, I wrote him as a really bad dude. As I was writing the song and describing his posse (his bandit friends), I kept getting stuck and the music wasn’t flowing. After about twenty minutes of struggling to come up with something, I thought to myself, "a wanted poster!”
 
So, I wrote/designed the wanted poster featured in the video and that’s how I wrote the song.
 
Next week, you’ll learn more about the hero in our story, Cowboy Dan.

Cheers! 

JB