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Hidden Gems From The B-Side.. Life Side (Week 12)

Tonic 🎶 Mean to Me 🎶 Do You Know…

Hey yall… hope all is well… this week I’m sharing two favorites — we’ll finish up Tonic next week before turning the page…

🎵 Mean to Me
• Year: 1999
• Album: Sugar

🎵 Do You Know
• Year: 2o02
• Album: Head on Straight

Mean to Me is good… one of my favorites from them… but it’s hard to pick a favorite with these guys… so press play and enjoy…

Happy Hump Day… 🐫

This one has the F word in it once at the 3:36 mark… 👇

…….📖→💛☀️→📄📄→🌬️→👁️👁️→😌→🚶‍♂️↔️🏠→🌌’

So open up the book that you keep deep inside…
Let the pages yellow in the sun…
Show them that you’re not afraid to let them see…
How far you can be… from home…

© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson. All rights reserved.

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Hidden Gems From The B-Side.. Life Side (Week 11)

Tonic 🎶 Take Me As I Am 🎶 Knock Down Walls…

Hey yall 🤠 hope all is well…

We’re still digging into Tonic — and there is so much gold left to be found..
You know how it is… you’ve got to get to know someone before you marry them — believe you me 💯

So I’ve got two more sweet ones for you today…

🎶 “Take Me As I Am”
Year released: 2o02
Album.. Head on Straight (Tonic’s third studio album)
Album release date.. September 24.. 2o02

🎶 “Knock Down Walls”
Year released.. 1999
Album.. Sugar (Tonic’s second studio album)
Album release date.. November 9.. 1999

And just a cool little fact about me…
Pretty much every song I’ve ever shared with yall on this blog —
I also play and sing myself…
me and my guitar 🎸

Hope you enjoy… I truly appreciate you…

This song has the F word in it.. just once.. at the 1:37 mark.. it’s not bad.. it’s quick.. 👇

💔🚶‍♀️➡️🛣️
🗣️🙂👌
👗💍👩‍❤️‍👨🚫
🎭😔
🔄😵‍💫
🔥🔌❄️🔌                  
🧒📢🚫
🛣️🧪
💸❤️
🧱⬇️🫵
🙏❤️
🧱⬇️🫵
🔥❤️
🤏🫴🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️
🎮♟️
🍀🔄
🔁🔁⬇️⬇️
🧠❌
🫵🔧🧍‍♂️
🧱⬇️🫵
🙏❤️
🧱⬇️🫵
🔥❤️
💔🧍‍♂️⬇️
❤️🪓
🐾⬇️
🎭🚫❤️
🛣️🧪
💸❤️
🧱⬇️🫵
🙏❤️
🧱⬇️🫵
🙏❤️
🙏❤️
🙏❤️
🧱⬇️🫵🫵
🙏❤️…….. Knock Down Walls… lyric tower..

(•‿•)♡(•‿•)
    /|\  . _/|\
   / | \. . |__| \……
     |          |
    / \     /_\……………….
  /__\……………………………..    

© 2026 Bryan H. All rights reserved.  

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Hidden Gems From The B-Side.. Life Side (Week 9)

Tonic 🎶 Head On Straight 🎶 Lemon Parade…

Hey yall… so I have two more great songs from Tonic for you…

“Head on Straight”
• Album: Head on Straight
• Year: 2o02

“Lemon Parade”
• Album: Lemon Parade
• Year: 1996

And here’s some cool facts about the band…

• The name “Tonic” comes from music theory — the tonic is the home note of a scale.. They chose it because they wanted their songs to feel grounded.. centered.. and real…

• “If You Could Only See” became one of the most-played rock songs of the late ’90s.. but the band actually thought deeper tracks like “Lemon Parade” better represented who they really were…

• Emerson Hart (lead singer) wrote many of their songs while dealing with personal struggles — addiction.. recovery.. and relationships — which is why their lyrics hit with that raw… honest edge….

• They turned down being over-polished… Labels wanted them slicker… but Tonic pushed to keep their sound emotional and imperfect — part of why they connect so well with listeners who love real feeling over radio gloss…

• They reunited after a long break because fans never stopped asking for them — and when they came back… they kept the same heart instead of chasing modern trends…

I hope you enjoy 😉 `.°~

© 2026 Bryan H. All Rights Reserved.

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Outlaw Roots — A Hank Jr. Series

Where My Sound Began…

Hey yall…
if you check my blog out at all… you already know how much music means to me…

Being a musician and a singer… I love all kinds of sound…
I’ve got influences everywhere — punk… rock… outlaw country… even rap…  Christian music.. of course… and more…
Throw it all in a blender and you pretty much get me… my sound…

But if I’m being real…
it all started for me with outlaw country…
with Hank Williams Jr… aka Bocephus…

Most people know him…
but they usually only know three or four of the big songs…
What a lot of folks don’t realize is — he has hundreds of songs that go even deeper than the famous ones…

To me… his music is pure art…
straight poetry…

And here’s the part that surprises people —
for a guy known for that raw… hard sound…
Hank Jr. wrote some of the best love songs I’ve ever heard…

I learned to play guitar from his music…
I learned to sing from his music…
I honestly know every single one 😁😎…

So… I’m starting something new…

Every Friday…
I’m going to feature one Hank Jr. song —
a weekly spotlight —
to help introduce people to the side of him most never get to hear…

When I really think about it…
he’s probably had more influence on me than any other artist…

His music is special…
and to most of the world…
it’s still a secret…

😎.•-  .°~  `’.,°~

© 2026 Bryan H. All Rights Reserved.