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I’ve Been Down & I’d Love to Knock the Hell Out of You ♩♪♫
I’ve been kind of bummed out for a few days now… not a whole lot to say. Life will straight show up on you. These next two songs have a 17 year gap between them… and take you to different places. The second song really cracks me up, and I need some laughs tonight.
Because I’ve been down.
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♩♪♫ I’ve Been Down 1982
♩♪♫ I’d Love to Knock the Hell Out of You 1999
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Covers of Florida Georgia Line & Sister Hazel
So I decided to start this series because I thought it would be fun to share and let yall see what I’ve been up to over the past couple of months.
I started doing these recordings about two months ago. A mix of Christian and secular. During the first month, I was just using the WhatsApp recorder, so the sound quality is pretty rough—very lo-fi—but on some of those I still managed to captured some cool moments.
About a month ago, I downloaded Lexis Audio Editor, and the sound quality is a lot better. This week I have two songs for you… Cruise by Florida Georgia Line and Your Winter by Sister Hazel, which I recorded last night. I also tried singing it in the key of D for the first time.
Anyway, I hope yall enjoy them. Thanks for listening.🎙️
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No Man Is An Island 💯 I Have This Hope
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No matter your beliefs… I like you… I’m for you. Together… we can lift each other up. We’re not meant to live this life alone.
Work on trying to let someone in… even if it’s just one.
Ain’t no life outside each other.
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I have two excellent songs for you today
🎵 No Man Is an Island 2o14
🎵 I Have This Hope 2o16
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Be blessed… and don’t forget.
Hebrews 10:24–25
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another
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I Just Ain’t Been Able 🎶 Woman on the Run
Hey yall… hope life’s treating ya good. The weekend is upon us and I’m so ready.
As I’m putting this Hank post together, I’m listening to my Lorde and Adele playlist on Amazon Music… and it just occurred to me how crazy that is. drastic difference. 😂 I’m a huge fan of both ladies. Especially Lorde. In fact, I’m planning on covering a few of their songs soon from the Bathroom Studio. 😎
But I don’t wanna get off track here…
Let’s get back to Bocephus.
Here’s two great ones you may not have heard before.
🎶 I Just Ain’t Been Able — from Family Tradition 1979
🎶 Woman on the Run — from Man of Steel 1983
I also added a really cool video of Hank on Letterman from the early ’80s… check it out.
Thank you for listening.
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A Sidewalk Prophets Cover
For the past few months, I’ve been doing late-night recordings of songs in my bathroom because the acoustics are good. No fancy recording equipment—just my phone, the Lexis Audio Editor app, my guitar, and me. This one is a cover of You Love Me Anyway by Sidewalk Prophets.
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Do you believe in minimalism?
Absolutely not!
I thinketh a man should haveth many wives!
Many guitars. Many books. Many fishing lures.
Minimalism and I haveth agreed to seeth other people.
If you believeth me on this… come hither… I want to showeth you something no one hath ever seeneth…
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Hey yall…
Two more great ones this week from Matthew West… (not hidden gems… 2 of his more popular ones)
Broken Things 🎶 Hello, My Name Is
Both are among my favorites of his.
I saw this comment on YouTube and thought it was pretty cool…
“Imagine you have two ceramic pots. One is cracked and missing pieces. The other is perfect. Now put a candle inside both and place a lid on them. Which pot do you see more light coming through? The broken one. That’s what God does. Sometimes you have to be broken to let God’s light shine through.”
Hope you enjoy. 🎧
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2 Corinthians 5:17 🎵
Therefore… if anyone is in Christ… he is a new creation. The old has passed away… behold… the new has come.
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Back in 2o1O… life was just amazing for me…
At the time, I was serving as the resident director at a Christian men’s drug rehab and discipleship training program down in Bradenton, Florida… in the Tampa Bay area…
It was so rewarding… so awesome… to have a hand in helping guys get off drugs… to watch the transformation take place in their lives… to see hope return where there had once been none…
We also did a lot in the community to help people.
Folks would call my office looking for help. Maybe they needed help moving… maybe an elderly person needed some yard work done… and sometimes it was something completely different. I received those kind of calls often, and through them, I made many friendships.
One day I got a call from an older gentleman named Dan.
He lived alone… his health wasn’t the greatest… and he needed some work done around his property. He wanted to know if there was any way we could help him.
Of course, I told him we could.
So I grabbed a few guys, and we headed out to his place.
Dan lived on Anna Maria Island… in Holmes Beach… and his property sat directly on the Gulf side.
As I pulled up and stepped out of the truck, I was in awe.
It was beautiful.
There were three houses on the property.
One was the main house where Dan lived.
Another was a rental house.
And then there was a little two bedroom cottage… over eighty years old… sitting quietly near the water.
It needed a lot of work.
No one had lived in it for more than ten years…
Dan and I became good friends…
I would often stop by to check on him.
Sometimes I’d pick up some food, and we’d sit out on his back deck… have lunch… talk… and stare out at that blue green water.
It was so vibrant in color that it didn’t even look real.
Dan had lived a lot of life.
He was full of true stories… the kind you can’t make up.
I loved listening.
Every visit felt like opening another chapter of a book.
One day he told me he wanted to start renovating the cottage and renting it out again.
He asked me if I’d be interested in helping.
I agreed.
And over the course of the next year… I spent much of my free time out there on the island working on it…
Most days I’d bring a couple of the guys with me.
Little by little… room by room… we started bringing it back to life.
And finally… one day…
We put the last finishing touches on it.
It was ready to be lived in again.
A few days later, Dan called me.
He asked if I could come by.
Said there was something he wanted to talk to me about.
He knew I was looking for a place to live.
And then he told me something I’ll never forget.
He said he’d love for me to be his neighbor. 😁
A few weeks later…
I relocated myself to 3220 Gulf Drive.
And just like that…
I became about that life…
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The Salt Life.
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My buddy Nathan lived there with me for a while…
And we made a lot of good memories…
It was just unreal living there…
I had a hammock stretched between two palm trees in my backyard.
I had an enclosed back patio with an incredible view.
I’d sit out there and play my guitar… and watch the sunsets.
At night… I’d lay in bed and fall asleep to the sound of the waves crashing.
I found out the cottage had quite a history…
Back in the 80s and 90s… Dan rented it out to many famous people…
Two of which were the Allman Brothers Band…
And Gunther Gebel Williams… the famous animal trainer from Ringling Bros. Circus.
Gregg Allman… Jaimoe Johanson… and Allen Woody were regulars…
Dan told me many times that he’d have to walk over late at night and tell them to quiet down…
They’d be partying like crazy… drinking… playing music… and making way too much noise. 😂
I always got a kick out of those stories.
But Gunther’s story was just unbelievable…
When he stayed at the cottage… he always brought his friends with him.
And umm…
His friends were tigers. 🐅 🐅
One of them was pregnant…
And she gave birth right there…
In the very place I called home.
So eventually… Gunther ended up finding another place down the street that was better suited for him and his friends…
Probably bigger. 😂
Late one night… Dan received a phone call from an older couple who were on vacation and staying at the cottage.
They told him they thought someone was at the front door trying to break in.
So he went outside to see what was going on…
And to his disbelief…
There was a huge tiger standing at the front door wanting in.
About that time, Gunther came running down the street yelling for his furry friend.
He grabbed him and took him back home.
Later, Gunther told Dan that tigers instinctively want to return to the place where they were born.
So for a while… this became a regular problem.
They’d get loose… wander off… and end up right back at the beach house.
It got to the point that Dan finally told Gunther it had to stop because it was bad for business. 😂
Apparently around that time… there were quite a few reported tiger sightings on the island…
I lived on the island from 2o12 to 2o14…
Then I got married… moved away to a different part of Florida… and never saw Dan again.
Today… all the homes that were on the property have been torn down… and new ones built in their place.
I’m not even sure if Dan is still living.
I’ve been trying to find out here recently…
No luck yet…
I used to have a lot of pictures and videos from my time there.
They were all on my old phone…
Which eventually ended up at the bottom of the sea. 😁
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Today… I have nothing to look at from those days…
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Just the memories.
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it was a time in my life…
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That I’ll never forget.
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I did find this video from 2o11… a year before I moved to the island 👇 this was the beachfront of the cottage
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The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places… indeed… I have a beautiful inheritance. — Psalm 16:6
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If you had an unlimited budget for 24 hours, what would you do?
This prompt reminded me of a story that happened to me years ago…
I was probably 19 or 20 years old. Early ’90s.
My uncle owned a tree cutting and removal company, and every now and then he’d call me if he needed an extra hand. One spring, Atlanta got hit with some nasty weather. High winds came through and left trees down all over the place.
We spent the day working in some of the high-end neighborhoods around Buckhead. On one particular street, there were trees down everywhere. My uncle and I split up and started knocking on doors to see if anyone needed our services.
One property caught my attention.
A massive oak tree had fallen across the front yard. The place was beautiful. A long winding driveway climbed a hill to a huge old house that looked like something out of a movie.
So I made the walk up.
It seemed to take forever.
When I finally got to the front door, I noticed it was open. I stopped for a second and called out.
“Hello? Anybody home?”
Nothing.
I knocked a few times.
Still nothing.
I called out again.
Nothing.
So I leaned my head just inside the doorway.
All the lights were on.
And sitting in the middle of the room was a large table.
Now that was strange enough.
But what was on the table was stranger.
The entire thing was covered in stacks of cash.
Not a few piles.
Stacks and stacks of money.
The table was loaded with it.
To this day I have no idea how much was sitting there, but it was more money than I’d ever seen in one place in my life.
Naturally, all kinds of thoughts started running through my head.
This just isn’t a situation a person finds themselves in very often.
But along with the surprise came a strange feeling that I shouldn’t be there.
Something told me it was time to leave.
So I left.
End of story.
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As for the prompt itself…
I’d use it to help people who actually need it.
The funny thing is, I can still do this without an unlimited budget.
Every little bit helps.
Every little bit counts.
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When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I don’t want to grow up… I’m a Toys R Us kid… they got the best… for so much less… you’ll really flip your lid… from bikes to trains to video games… it’s the greatest toy store there is… gee wiz… I don’t want to grow up… cuz baby… if did? I wouldn’t be a Toys R Us kid… 🤷♂️
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