Joe Hermes Ignites the Night with “A Real Good Bad One”
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Joe Hermes doesn’t just release music. He pours concrete foundations for the kind of nights people wake up trying to piece together the next morning. The Midwest-raised independent firestarter is back with “A Real Good Bad One,” out now, and it lands like a beer bottle cracking against a neon bar sign.
Hermes has already earned a reputation for rowdy anthems built for tailgates and bars that don’t bother putting chairs on tables until sunrise. His recent single “Honky Tonk Feelin’” made it clear that he lives where the volume stays turned all the way up. Now “A Real Good Bad One” kicks the swinging doors wide open on another late-night adventure.
The track leans into Hermes’ gravel-rich vocals and outlaw swagger. Guitars snarl. The drums hit like someone slapping the bar top for another round. The whole thing burns with the kind of youthful invincibility that convinces friends they can outrun cops or karaoke Bon Jovi perfectly on the first try.
Hermes invites listeners straight into the whirlwind:
Cause tonight we’re bulletproof
Try and catch up if you can
Slingin shots up to the Moon
Flyin high as Superman
There’s a price to pay but that’s ok
Right now we’re 10 feet tall
Feel a real good bad one coming on
This is the gospel of reckless fun preached loud enough to rattle the bottles behind the bar. It’s a reminder that sometimes the cure for a long week is a cowboy hat, a cheap shot, and a promise to worry about consequences tomorrow.
Hermes isn’t pretending to be anything other than what he is: a champion of every glorious, questionable decision that turns into a story worth telling. With “A Real Good Bad One,” he keeps building his world of smoke-hazed rooms, backroad escapades, and jukebox nights people swear they’ll only do “one more time.”
Country music needs its wild cards. Hermes plays his with a grin.
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