Chords for Arc Angels HBO News Flash

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_ _ _ _ The story of the Archangels, a group out of Austin, Texas, reads like a Hollywood [F] script.
A few [D] musicians hook up, and with the help of a couple of seasoned pros as their backup
band, they sign [Dm] a major record deal.
[D] Their self-titled debut album is currently heating up the charts, and their video single
Living in a Dream is getting plenty [F] of airtime on [G] MTV.
It's a success story that seemed destined from the beginning.
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[G] _ _ _ Lead vocalists Doyle [C] Bromhall II and Charlie Sexton front the band, while Tommy [G] Shannon
and Chris Layton, [Dm] who played with the legendary [G] guitarist [C] Stevie Ray Vaughan [G] before his tragic
death in 1990, [Dm] are the veteran backup on bass and drums.
[Bb] For Bromhall and Sexton, Vaughan's legendary style [C] has been their greatest [G] teacher and influence.
[D] _ We sat down together and played, but it wasn't really [Bb] him teaching me.
I mean, we would just sit down and just play.
_ Or he'd bring me on stage and [A] we'd [Bb] play, and same with you.
[B] _ _ You just really observe, go to see him.
I mean, [Eb] music is a weird thing.
Stevie, [B] _ _ _ _ [Bb] I mean, music, [F] there's only so many [G] notes in a scale, and that's it.
There's _ no other, it's not like someone's going [Gb] to invent new notes.
They just don't [Ab] exist.
And it's not what _ _ _ you play, it's how you play.
[F] And everything came from the heart with [Gb] Stevie.
You know, what a fire, you know? _
[F] _ [Abm] And that was, maybe that's the big [D] lesson [F] _
to [Dm] be learned from him.
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_ [Gm] Yeah, it wasn't gonna take me.
_ [G] Oh, yeah.
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_ _ _ _ Won't even [Ebm] tell us the lines to [G] go.
The blues influence was familiar [A] ground for Bromhall,
whose father played [Bm] drums and sang with Stevie Ray's [B] older brother, Jimmy Vaughn.
In fact, the [C] Bromhalls [D] actually lived with the Vaughns under the same roof
in Austin, Texas, during the [Gm] early 70s.
[D] As for Sexton, he [G] remembers impromptu sessions with the Vaughn brothers
when he was just 10 years old.
Having [Dm] been exposed to music early on,
[G] Bromhall and Sexton feel music was their destiny.
I was [C] born into this musical family, _ and [G] we were all living together at the time.
All [A] the Vaughn family and the Bromhalls _ _ family.
So I was sort of born right into it.
And _ [B]
I started playing drums when I was 6, and then I started playing bass when I was 11.
And I decided to switch to guitar.
My [F] family didn't [G] play.
_ They were more just music [F] enthusiasts and would go to [E] the clubs
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and see a lot of bands, [E] you know, and just really loved [B] music.
So instead of _ [Gb] _
living with a babysitter, which wasn't around and we couldn't afford [A] it anyway,
my [Gb] mother would just take my [F] brother and I [A] around the clubs.
And so [Ebm] _ we were _ [F] introduced to [E] music and all that [C] real early.
You got to come closer.
_ You got to [G] give one more shot.
_ By the time Sexton was 17, he had already worked with such revered musicians
as [C] Keith Richards and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones,
The Clash, Bob Dylan, Don Henley, and David Boyd.
By his [G] 20th birthday, he had two solo [Em] albums to his credit.
[D] Then Sexton played [G] it cool after critics dubbed him a matinee pinup [Em] rocker
because of his teen idol good looks.
The thing is, is [C] _ _
people [N] blame me when perhaps they should blame the people who [G] were responsible [Gb] for it.
Like, for instance, I never claimed to be a pinup [F] boy.
I never said, I'm a teen idol, [B] I want to be a teen idol, you know. _
[Gb] So I was just _ _ [Am] _
[Gb] growing as a musician [G] and trying different, [Ab]
you know, [Gb] _ styles of music
and stuff which I'll continue to do, you know.
[F] That's all part of the evolution of becoming a writer, becoming a performer, becoming [D] anything really.
_ _ [G] I took _ flight, _ _ crossed the line, _ _ [A] I ran [D] for my life.
_ Sexton has proven that he's come a long way from his days as a teen rock [A] star.
A recent [Bb] appearance on ABC's In Concert showcased their rock and roll [C] blues sound,
which has [G] now put the band on the road to success.
There's even [E] talk of touring some clubs in the near future.
As for the future of the band, it could be a never-ending story.
It seems [Bb] like this thing is going so well and it feels right.
It feels real comfortable playing together.
_ _ So, I don't know, I want to stick with it.
Yeah, [G] I think it's the main objective [Bb] is that _ whenever the way it came about
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was real _ [D] special and real different than [G] the way things usually came about. _ _ _
_ [Gm] In my mind, this is [C] something that can go on forever.
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