MAKING DECISIONS, BIASED MIND & CLOUDED VISION
I DON'T WANNA LIVE THAT WAY NO MORE
KEEP MY MIND WIDE OPEN, WAIT TIL THE OTHERS HAVE SPOKEN
THEN THEY'LL KNOW FOR DAMN SURE WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR
RELATIONSHIPS, JUST LIKE THE WAVES
WASHED ALL MY HOPES & TRUST AWAY
NOTHING NICE TO SAY, THEN SAY NOTHING AT ALL
NOW I'M WORKING ON ME, WON'T BE FIXED BY ANYBODY
AND I KNOW FOR DAMN SURE WHO I'M FIGHTING FOR
FOR DAMN SURE, the first single from JIMMY DOYLE's GOING GRAY is an anthem of independence, growing up & moving on. I'm almost 40 & have put off making this record for the better part of a decade. After my bands The Fad, The Forthrights & Let Me Crazy all broke up, I dealt with a slap in the face by reality & found myself in a place of uncertainty, fear & a general sense of feeling lost. I told myself I was too old to do this anymore, that I wasn't good enough & every other excuse in the book.
Cut to late 2018, my father passed away & although I wish more than anything he had lived to see this, it was a much needed kick in the ass to do what I was too scared to do all along, I got my life together. I got a rehearsal space & wrote some songs with my buddy Ben McIssac to fill out the album. I was gifted a KORG d1600 mkII, bought some mics & set about making demos. A mix of songs I had been sitting on for years, a Forthrights tune that was too good to let drift into obscurity & the songs I wrote with Ben. I reached out to Ian Farmer & Eric Osman, who I had discussed making this record with five years earlier. Then I asked Tim Hildebrand to play guitar & Brittany Luna to play keyboards & sing backup vocals.
We rehearsed the songs at The Metal Shop, Ian's studio in Philly in November 2019 & then did initial tracking there in February. My partner Kay McCaney took photos of us & filmed part of the recording which became the music video for this song. We wrapped tracking in late February 2020 & then... well, the world fell apart. I received the masters from Ryan Schwabe in July 2020 & like everyone else in the world, didn't know what to do or what would happen next. But here we are, May 2021 & these songs are FINALLY starting to see the light of day. FOR DAMN SURE & the rest of the album are inspired by power-pop/new wave artists like Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Nick Lowe & Blondie. It's a perfect style of music with pop sensibility but the rawness of punk rock & I hope that even a shred of that comes off with these songs. Thanks for listening & I can't wait to share the rest of the record with y'all.
PMA xoxox
-Jimmy Doyle
credits
released May 7, 2021
Jimmy Doyle - Vocals & Guitar
Tim Hildebrand - Lead Guitar
Ian Farmer - Bass
Eric Osman - Drums
Brittany Luna - Keyboards & Backup Vocals
Recorded 12/19 (additional tracking 2/20)
at The Metal Shop in Philadelphia, PA
Produced by Ian Farmer
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe
in Philadelphia, PA
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