This is our tribute to the man, myth and legend, Johnny Cash.  It's about the people that rip off Johnny's sound and voice in an effort to make money...all the while myself singing and playing like Johnny Cash.  We're all trying to Johnny Cash-in.

Jawin' with the Law

Cashin' In

Tale of 2 Bullets is the first of many "Spaghetti Western" style songs we're writing and sharing.  Fueled by my love of the old west, this song pulls that old gun fighter style from the movies.

Tale of 2 Bullets

Missing You, Missing Me is the egotistical story about myself breaking up with my girl and not missing her, but missing her missing me.

Missing You, Missing Me

This is a story that is the opposite of the movie, Mississippi Burning.  It's a love song about me falling in love with a beautiful African-America woman who goes by the name Mississippi Queen and me yearning to be with her.

Mississppi Yearning

Dark Eyes, Cold Blood

Headin’ to the shack on old river road
where the night hangs so still
Running my mouth like a bad episode
to remind the world
I’m still here, I’m beat down
lots of things have changed
but I’m the same motherfucker
that you have always known
And I will be him
until the day I’m gone

into the sea, into the night
past the great divide
Lies have died, truth’s been told
and I still survived

Life is cheap, The Sins have passed
hearts have broken wide
My eyes are dark, my blood is cold
but i’m still alive

I’m lost in the thought of the yesteryears
past all the things I’ve done
All the mistakes and the lies I told
to misguide the world
I was there, but not beat down
before everything had changed  
I was the same motherfucker
that you used to know
And I was him
Even though it all went wrong

Life is cheap, The Sns have passed
hearts have broken wide
My eyes are dark, my blood is cold
but i’m still alive

into the sea, into the night
past the great divide
Lies have died, truth’s been told
and I still survived

Credits: 
Written by J. van Huisman
Produced by Jamie Knox
Vocals: J. van Huisman
Drums: Jamie Knox
Guitars Lead/Rhythm: J. van Huisman
Rhythm guitar: Ryan Smart
Bass Guitar: J. van Huisman

Bandito Undefeato

Dark Eyes, Cold Blood

Just a Bad Man

Oh I am
the kind of man
where backroom plans
define who I am
the kind of man
with blood on his hands
trying to stand 
any way he can

I think it’s the danger
that I find appealing

I’m just a bad man making my money how I can
Doing the things that most men can’t

Oh I came
to play the game
to stake my claim
to make a name
the kind of game
where pain is the gain
need the pay
just to maintain

I think it’s my nature
That I have no feelings

I’m just a bad man making my money how I can
Doing the things that most men can’t

Oh I try
to take the prize
see the eyes
behind the guise
the kind of prize
that runs and hides
no matter the size
they always die

I’ll send you to your maker
during our dealings

I’m just a bad man making my money how I can
Doing the things that most men can’t

Credits: 
Written by J. van Huisman
Produced by Jamie Knox
Vocals: J. van Huisman
Drums: Jamie Knox
Guitars Lead/Rhythm: J. van Huisman
Rhythm guitar: Ryan Smart
Bass Guitar: J. van Huisman

Just a Bad Man

Founder of the now defunct "The Sins" underground rock sensation in Seattle.  Now teaming up with fellow Sins drummer, Jamie Knox, and long time friend, Blake Croy, JvH is sowing his oats in traditional American styles of rock-n-roll.  Rockabilly, blues, honky tonk, do op, country, western and my favorite, spaghetti western.

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