Ya know, this song has always been important to me. “Evil Fred” my original folk song about a serial killer on the loose. This song has always been performed at all of my gigs; it’s also one of my most requested originals, and I will probably end up bringing that one back. I will do a little re-writing on that one though. Change the lyrics and the music around some. I wanna bring that song back to youtube with just me performing at home. I’ve always viewed this song as an important anthem of mine.

I want to try and make this song a little better. Improve it some. Make the singing a little better, the lyrics too, and change the guitar parts around some.

There is already a live video of me performing Evil Fred at a gig, and that video got like 504 views. I wanna keep this song and keep it going ’cause I think this song deserves to get heard.

The song is dark and controversial, yes, but I think that’s why people enjoy it. They enjoy the creepy sound of it. That was the goal with the song; I wanted it to be scary. Evil. I want to do a little re-write. The song has meaning to it. The song was never meant to be a radio-friendly hit. There was a story I wanted to tell behind it. The song is about an ax-murderer who is hiding out and you just never know when he’ll come out and find you.

The song also got the biggest applause by the crowd every time I performed it live. It’s a special song to me and it deserves to be big. To me, that song is the “Stairway To Heaven” in my musical life. Always has been.

If I ever made my first studio album with a real CD cover, this song will probably make it on there.

I almost wanted to do a concept album of the Evil Fred character, but I threw that idea in the trash, and thought it would be better if I just left the character mysterious in one song. I still do plan on giving it a re-write, though.

Should I keep writing dark & evil original music? I probably should but I just write whatever comes out of me. It all depends on what I’m feeling. I wrote “Evil Fred” ’cause maybe I was angry about something and it was a way to help get those feelings out of my system. I wrote that song years ago. Sometime around 2004-2005, maybe a little earlier. It was originally titled, “Here Comes Evil Fred”, but I cut the title in half. See? The song has been re-written too many times. Sometimes it takes a lot of re-writes to make it perfect.

Not trying to sound like an ego-maniac but this song deserves to be huge and you might even agree with it. I really shouldn’t throw it away and keep it going.

Kev