so looking to the sky ¡ will sing and from my heart to YOU ¡ bring…
Shane & Shane ♭ My Portion (Psalm 73)
https://youtube.com/shorts/pa2m_vnnXsY?si=PtqHn6sWCGnv4hV6 👈
Nothing Else.
Click on thumbnail inside short for full song…
Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides You. — Psalm 73:25© 2026 bryanforchrist. All rights reserved.
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Shimmer 🎶 Bad Day…
So today I’m moving on… FUEL anyone?…
Man… I’m so loaded up with music and bands… sometimes I just sit there like… who’s next?… there’s just too many…
But yeah… Fuel… one of my favorites.
They’re a little different… some songs are slower… easy… almost laid back… but when they decide to… they can come in hard and rock the absolute crap out of you.
I’ve seen them a few times… but here’s a cool one…
I lived in Leesburg, Florida from 2o16–2o21… little old house… about two blocks from downtown. Leesburg is known for Bikefest every year… bands playing all week long…
And I’m not kidding… I could always hear it all from inside my house… loud and clear.
So it’s 2o17… I’m laying on my bed one day… windows open… just chilling…
Then all of a sudden…
music cuts through the silence…
this band starts rocking… hard… sounding really good…
I’m laying there like… hold up… who is that?…
then it hits me…
duuuude… it’s Fuel !!! 😁🥳😎
So yeah… I just laid there… in my bed… and listened to their whole set that evening…
super cool.
…
I got two for you now…
🎧 Shimmer — Sunburn (1998)
🎧 Bad Day — Something Like Human (2oO0)
Shimmer is the song that put them on the map… these 2 are a little more chill… in coming weeks… I’ll let them rock harder for you… thought I’d take it easy on you for starters 😏…
The concert I heard from my bedroom evening
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What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had…?
I’ve done a lot… I love a lot.
Sports… fishing… music… writing…
working out pretty religiously these days…
and I’ve always loved driving… oh… I’m a people and animal whisperer too…
I drove 18-wheelers all across the U.S. for 17 years… professionally.
Spent time training student drivers with FedEx Ground…
that part stayed with me… something about watching it click.
Same thing with teaching guitar and music back in the day…
there’s something about passing things on.
But if we’re talking secret skills…
I can juggle.
Learned it as a teenager from a guy at a pool hall…
with billiard balls.
And this one’s a little ridiculous but true…
I can throw grapes so high they disappear…
wait… track them back down out of the sky…
and catch them in my mouth.
Oh… and I can juggle grapes and eat them at the same time…
Yeah… I know… lol…
Nothing special… just a fun way to feed your face.
Not today though… too much other stuff to juggle…
˙uoıʇɔǝlɟuı ɥʇıʍ ƃuıs I sɐ ƃuol oS
…ʎɐs I ʇɐɥʍ ɹǝʇʇɐɯ ʇ,usǝop ʇI© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Willy `•.
“A light condition in a beauty dark.”
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Me `’.,°~
…that light in a shit storm…
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Ben Howard !i¡-
“Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.”
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Isaiah 45:3
“I will give thee the treasures of darkness…
and hidden riches of secret places…”© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson
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First Song I Ever Learned on Guitar…
I’m laying here in bed… in the dark… listening to my YouTube music app.
Something I do most every night.
I’ll usually pick a song to start it off… then just let it go wherever it wants to go.
Lately though… one song keeps showing up.
Random… but not really random.
So much that it’s got me thinking…
It’s the very first song I ever learned on guitar —
“Coming Home” by Cinderella, off the album Long Cold Winter.
I learned it in November of 1988.
I was 14.
I had no idea who Cinderella even was at the time…
but that season turned out to be the longest… coldest winter of my life.
Back then, I’d go to my uncle and ask for CDs or cassettes.
Every time… he’d give me this deep stare… then walk over to his collection.
You could tell he was thinking.
Choosing carefully.
He knew what I was going through.
He knew I wasn’t just listening.
He knew I was building something…
a foundation… for who I’d become… as a musician… as a person.
He’s no longer here now…
but looking back… he knew exactly what he was doing with me 😁
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Every song on that album is 🔥.
And it’s kind of crazy…
that an album with that name would land in my hands
right before my own long cold winter really set in.
To this day… it’s locked into my personal all-time albums list.
Forever.
Back then, there was no internet.
No Google. No YouTube tutorials.
No quick tabs you could pull up
No smartphone.
I didn’t even have sheet music.
All I had was a chord book.
So I learned every chord in it…
then started figuring out scales and patterns on my own.
Trial and error.
A lot of wrong notes…
but I remembered them…
learned to avoid them.
That’s how I learned songs —
by listening…
by playing along…
by feeling it out.
Everything was different back then.
But here’s the sweet part…
Lately, when I pick up my guitar…
I feel like that 14 year old kid again.
And that’s something I lost for a while.
I’m happy it’s back.
I’m happy I’m back.
Not losing these calloused fingers ever again 😎…
I took a ride in a world… I’ll be spinnin for the rest of my life… ♩ ♭ ♮ ♯
© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson. All rights reserved.
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I offer a service kind of like Blaze… but way hella better.
The cost is similar, but I will work with you.
If you have coin struggle… you can pay in many other ways.
It’s not about money… never was… never will be…
because you see…
I can help you customize stuff…
you know what I mean right?
So you only pay for what you need. 🤷♂️ 🦤
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There For You 🎶 Cage On The Ground…
Before Lacey Sturm ever stepped on stage with Flyleaf, she had already lived through the kind of darkness most people only write about. As a teenager she battled deep depression and survived a suicide attempt… and what came after reshaped everything. Her faith didn’t become an image or a lane — it became the core of who she was. That’s why her voice hits different. It’s not just tone or technique… it’s survival, it’s prayer, it’s something real breaking through. A lot of those Flyleaf songs weren’t crafted for radio… they came straight from her journals, her struggles, her conversations with God. That’s why you feel them more than you just hear them.
What makes her story even more wild… she walked away from it all in 2012, right when things were peaking after New Horizons. No drama… no crash… just a decision to step back for her family and her calling. Most artists hold on tighter at that point — she let go. And when she came back, it wasn’t to pick up where she left off… it was to start fresh with her own solo career. Same intensity, same raw honesty… just even more personal and stripped down. That contrast you hear in her — the softness and the scream, the broken and the bold — that’s not a style she learned… that’s a life she lived.
There For You 🎶
Year: 2005
Album: Flyleaf
Cage On The Ground 🎶
Year: 2012
Album: New Horizons
✝️ 1 John 3:18
“Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”© 2026 bryanforchrist | All rights reserved
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All Through the Night… ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♭
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Dinosaur 🎶 All In Alabama
Sup yall… got two of my favorites for you today…
If I was ever forced to make a top 10 list of Hank songs… both of these are on it—no question.
I’ve played ’em hundreds of times over the years…
for myself… when no one was around…
and for plenty of others along the way…
And honestly… it’s been a little while…
So I think I’m gonna grab my guitar later…
sit back… and run ‘em both again…
Just me… the strings… and that old feeling…
But for now… let me quit talkin’…
and let’s get this thing goin’… ♩♪
🎶 Dinosaur — 1980 — Habits Old and New
🎶 All in Alabama — 1980 — Habits Old and New
Hope yall have a great weekend…
and don’t be like Hank and go fallin’ off the side of any mountains 😄♩♪
© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson | All Rights Reserved
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Fly Me Courageous ♬ Build a Fire
Hey yall… welcome…
Today I got two more from these guys…
both of ‘em take me back…
Back to around ‘98…
weekend nights… guitars plugged in…
just playing for hours…
There was this lady and her husband…
and also a guy named Dennis…
and my best friend Ron on drums…
we’d go all night…
And somewhere in the middle of it all…
between the laughs…
the beer… the whiskey… the weed…
these two songs would find their way in…
I don’t miss the stimulants…
but I sure miss the music…
the friendship…
the memories…
I think about Dennis a lot…
he passed way too young…
great guy… great guitar player…
♬ “Fly Me Courageous” — Fly Me Courageous (1991)
♬ “Build a Fire” — Fly Me Courageous (1991)
So this one’s for you, Dennis…
Rock on, brother… 🎸
© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson | All rights reserved
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