Cleveland Guardians release a new song and it’s just ok

The Cleveland Guardians have a new theme song.

The Cleveland Guardians have created a new theme song. Yup. Give them credit, they’re at least trying to get new fans interested in the team, but is this the song to do it? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad song.

It’s just not a great song. It’s a song. Wholly inoffensive and steeped in a unique blend of pop-rock meets blues-rock. This isn’t surprising, as according to Crains Cleveland, it was created by local blues-rock band, Welshy Arms. Sam Getz and Jimmy Weavers, the founding members of the band, were the ones tasked with creating the song for the Guardians.

The title of the song is “We Are Cleveland” and while Getz and Weavers were the driving force behind it, they weren’t the only ones who lent their talents to the project. Their fellow bandmates in Jon and Bri Bryant were part of the project, as well as other local talents Joey “Coach” Hanna, and Stacey Richardson.

The lyrics and concept of the song are built around the new team name, obviously, and the nickname Guardians is really hit on often in the song. That makes sense, as the whole thing is designed to help promote and market the new name.

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I’ve listened to it three times and it’s starting to hit. Granted, this is the type of music I’m most in favor of, so I’m more predosed to enjoy something of this style. What I will say is that this is a fine attempt and any song that embraces Cleveland is one I can get behind.

Granted, for some of you older fans, you may remember the 90s cover song “Alomar” that was a spoof of the OMC song, “How Bizarre”, which played pretty regularly on Q 104.1 back in 1997.

Then of course there’s the iconic “Cleveland Rocks”, which everyone knows the lyrics of from birth.

I say bring on more original songs about Cleveland, even if they’re largely just ok.