Larry Love in fact spilled the beans on the song, incidentally, in an article about the hobbies of A3's former Mouth-Organist, Nick Reynolds...apparently, it was inspired by a story of domestic abuse and murder:
"We have a lot of Alabama 3 fans on death row in Texas and they are sending us lyrics of the songs they have written," says Larry Love, who writes some of the band's songs, although he is from Merthyr Tydfil rather than Alabama. They have just released a new album , called MOR. "We have one song [on it] called Locked Down and Loaded but I Love You, which is written from the point of view of a spouse," says Love. "In fact, Woke Up This Morning was written after I read about the case of Sara Thornton and how she had killed her husband. It was meant to be about female empowerment, and it ends up becoming a gangster anthem."
I actually find it kind of funny that A3 is so well respected in America when it was in fact concieved by a bunch of Welsh and British guys, and consists of largely sarcastic songs deploring the bad bits of America - Drugs, Overzealous Religion, Domestic Violence, etc...
Larry Love in fact spilled the beans on the song, incidentally, in an article about the hobbies of A3's former Mouth-Organist, Nick Reynolds...apparently, it was inspired by a story of domestic abuse and murder:
"We have a lot of Alabama 3 fans on death row in Texas and they are sending us lyrics of the songs they have written," says Larry Love, who writes some of the band's songs, although he is from Merthyr Tydfil rather than Alabama. They have just released a new album , called MOR. "We have one song [on it] called Locked Down and Loaded but I Love You, which is written from the point of view of a spouse," says Love. "In fact, Woke Up This Morning was written after I read about the case of Sara Thornton and how she had killed her husband. It was meant to be about female empowerment, and it ends up becoming a gangster anthem."
guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/27/usa.art
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke_Up_This_Morning
I actually find it kind of funny that A3 is so well respected in America when it was in fact concieved by a bunch of Welsh and British guys, and consists of largely sarcastic songs deploring the bad bits of America - Drugs, Overzealous Religion, Domestic Violence, etc...