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Singer/songwriter Jace Everett will be opening for The Duhks on Sunday at the Chico Women’s Club.
Everett, whose new album Red Revelations came out earlier this year, has made many new fans since his song “Bad Things” became the theme song for the HBO series “True Blood.”
The song was recorded for his self-titled 2005 album. He realized the show’s potential during it’s Hollywood premiere where the first two episodes were shown back to back.
“The folks at Sony got a hold of me in June or July before the show aired,” said Everett, who released his new album “Red Revelations” earlier this year.
“In June 2008, that’s when we started talking about it, doing mixing for it and all that kind of stuff,” he sad. “It’s the same exact tracks — we mixed it again. They’re pretty indistinguishable, we just had to do an edit to make it shorter.”
Though Everett’s song has only recently gained popularity, he has been performing since he was a tehhenager.
“I’ve been playing — getting paid for it — since I was about 15 or 16, which was a really long time ago,” he said with a laugh.
The song “Bad Things” is played during the opening credits of “True Blood” while graphic images of road kill and strippers overlay the country song.
“It’s meant to be dark, but also somewhat tongue-in-cheek,” Everett said. “You know, it’s got a sense of humor about it. The visuals, they knocked me out.”
The show, which chronicles the life of waitress “Sookie Stackhouse” as she falls for a mainstream vampire, has become a phenomenon of its own, following the popular “Twilight” book and film series.
“I had no idea, you know?” Everett said. “I didn’t know that it was going to be as successful as it has been.”
“Bad Things,” a crowd favorite at shows, was previously taken to mainstream country radio, but didn’t receive much airplay.
“It was too dark for the country radio market, I guess,” Everett said. “It worked out well that they didn’t because it was a basically unknown song by the time Alan Ball got a hold of it. I think that’s what they wanted, something that they could brand with their mark.”
A fan of “True Blood,” Everett said many of the songs on his new album are influenced by the darker elements of the show as well as the assortment of emotions in scenes.
Everett also noted he was really able to go “off the deep end” with the music on the new album.
“I love the fact that it mixes so many genres,” Everett said. “It’s kind of a cohesive thing and that’s what I try to do with my music, so I think we make good partners.”
Christina Rafael can be reached at
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