WORK: BUBBA ROSE, 1961

Bob Frank and John Murry - Bubba Rose, 1961

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Well. What better way for me to end my participation in the work week that with the finality of death? In this song Bubba does the thing we've all wanted to do at one time or another...he shoots his boss.

What makes this song different than most (and the album for that matter) is that Bubba Rose was (is?) a real person and in 1961 he really did shoot his boss. Neither Bob nor John knew Bubba or his family. They just wrote the song based on a newspaper clipping. That's the case for all the tracks on their 2007 effort, World Without End. Yup, instead of the traditional murder ballad thing that's been done, redone, remixed, and undone many times before them, they took a different route. They decided to start researching stories about real murders and write about them as they happened, sans the morality and rationalization commonly present in such songs.

Here. You get Bubba Rose. In 1961, he killed his boss.