Bad Actors Volume 1 — All 17 Tracks

17 tracks. 17 true stories. Every word backed by evidence. By Don Matthews.

  1. Silence Ain't Consent — 3:33. This opening track sets the tone for everything that follows. When communities stay silent in the fa…
  2. Unbroken — 5:04. "Unbroken" is the heartbeat of the Bad Actors album — the moment where the storytelling stops whispe…
  3. In the Shadows Tonight — 4:19. "In the Shadows Tonight (The Reckoning)" stands as one of the most confrontational and revealing tra…
  4. Double Dipped — 4:17. "Double Dipped" is one of the album's most pointed indictments of personal betrayal colliding with s…
  5. Morgan County Blues — 4:04. "Morgan County Blues" is one of the most haunting narrative tracks on Bad Actors, spotlighting anoth…
  6. The Osteen Files (Exhibit L) — 3:50. Exhibit L. Just one letter. One piece of evidence in a mountain of documentation that reveals a patt…
  7. A Warrant For A Lie — 3:34. They swore an oath. They signed their names. They stood before a judge and declared it was the truth…
  8. The Crowder Files — 3:33. "The Crowder Files" serves as the documentary centerpiece of the album's exposure, compiling the rec…
  9. Eleven Months Too Long — 3:48. "Eleven Months Too Long" documents one of the most egregious examples of pretrial detention abuse. T…
  10. Caught Red Handed — 4:00. "Caught Red Handed" is the receipts track—the moment when all the documentation, all the evidence, a…
  11. Osteen Lied — 3:36. Three words. Undeniable truth. Documented proof. Osteen lied. Not once. Not by accident. Not a misun…
  12. Land of the Free, Unless Its Me — 4:12. "Land of the Free, Unless Its Me" confronts the bitter irony at the heart of American justice: the f…
  13. She Called The State — 3:55. "She Called The State" documents the moment when personal conflict became state-sponsored persecutio…
  14. Osteen's Fall — 3:27. Every corrupt empire eventually crumbles. Every bad actor eventually faces their reckoning. This tra…
  15. The Gaslight Anthem — 2:29. "You're crazy. That didn't happen. You're misremembering. Nobody will believe you." The anthem of th…
  16. Governors Gone Too Far — 3:22. When corruption reaches the highest levels of state government, when the governor's office itself be…
  17. Scandalous — 3:14. "Scandalous" closes the album with the most personal betrayal of all—the scandalous acts committed b…

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