Hidden Gems from the B-Side ⛽ — Fuel (Week 29)

Featuring “Again” from Angels & Devils and “Quarter” from Natural Selection 🎵

Hey yall… this is the final fuel post… I hope you’ve enjoy them… next week something super special… probably my favorite band… but today I have these last two for you…

Again from Angels & Devils 2oO7 🎶

Quarter from Natural Selection 2oO3 🎶

Thank you for the support… 😎

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — Matthew West (Week 28) 🎧

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. 🎧

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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Outlaw Roots — The Hank Jr. Legacy (Week 19)

Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound 🎶 I Can’t Change My Tune

Hey yall… hope you’re doing good… and wishing everyone a great weekend…

It’s time to Hank it up again…

Today I’ve got two more great ones for you…

Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound… Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound 1979 🎶

I Can’t Change My Tune… High Notes 1982 🎶

I Can’t Change My Tune is one of my many Hank Jr. favorites… just a great song

I’ve also included a rare bonus video of Hank at his home… it’s a good one… gives you a little glimpse into how he lives…

He’s never seemed too interested in the mansion-and-caviar lifestyle… but he sure seems to live richly all the same haha…

Hope you enjoy 😁

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side ⛽ — Fuel (Week 28)

Die Like This 🎶 Won’t Back Down

Hey yall… I’m trying to get back in the swing of things… so I’m sticking with Fuel this week… and probably the next one too… then I’ll move on down the road to something super special.

Today I have two more hidden gems for you…

Die Like This… Natural Selection 2oo3 🎶

Won’t Back Down… Natural Selection 2oo3 🎶

Also… “Won’t Back Down” was written by Carl Bell specifically for the 2oo3 superhero movie Daredevil… starring Ben Affleck… most songs on movie soundtracks are borrowed after the fact… not this one… so that’s pretty neat…

Also Fuel songs have ended up all over movie/game culture…

“Won’t Back Down” → Daredevil

“Walk the Sky” → Godzilla (also written specifically)

“Quarter” → Need for Speed… Underground 2

“Sunburn” → Scream 3

There may even be some more… I’ll have to check…

Anyways… hope you enjoy… I appreciate you.

Credit Alamy.com
Credit Alamy.com

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — Matthew West (Week 27) 🎧

Strong Enough 🎶 Oh Me Of Little Faith

Hey yall… hope everyone is doing good… I’ve been away for a minute… just out here lifing it up… going through some things… no big deal right? We are tough… you and me… we got this… bring on the rain right? Then I can break out my guitar… and we can sing “I’m Still Standing”… make Elton John and Jesus proud of us…

But honestly… sometimes I’m not strong enough…

Still… I find my strength in Him… not Elton… the other One.

Today I have two more Matthew West songs for you…

Strong Enough… The Story of Your Life 2o1O 🎶

Oh Me Of Little Faith… Live Forever 2o15 🎶

Also I added two bonus videos…

One is Matthew at a children’s hospital visiting his friend Brooke… he wrote a song for her…

The other is Matthew giving a guitar tutorial for his song Strong Enough 🎸

Hopefully… things in my life have calmed down enough for me to get back to blogging…

Hope yall have a blessed Sunday …t…

sadly Brooke Mulford passed away on June 12, 2017 after a long battle with neuroblastoma cancer. Matthew wrote and performed the song “Never Ever Give Up” for her during her final months in the hospital.

The Lord is my strength and my shield… in Him… my heart trusts… and I am helped. — Psalm 28:7 (ESV) ♩ ♪ ♫

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side ⛽ — Fuel (Week 27)

Wasted Time 🎶 Halos of the Son

It’s 4am… and I need fuel ☕️… the straight black octane kind…

I don’t drink coffee because I like the taste… I know many do… my girlfriend is like this…

not me…

I do it for the caffeine baby… to wake my butt up… put the pep in ma step.

and this particular morning… I think I’ll enjoy my fuel ☕️… with my Fuel ⛽️…

Wasted Time 🎶 Angels & Devils — 2oO7

Halos of the Son 🎶 Angels & Devils — 2oO7

Also I didn’t do a Shakespeare post yesterday… I was busy…

I had a little bit of time… but I didn’t want to just try and throw something together…

so next week hopefully…

I also included bonus videos… apparently Toryn Green had eye color implants… I didn’t even know this was a thing…

also he’s in the medical field now… pretty cool… and an actor

check the pictures out below…

Hope yall have a great week… Thanks for listening…

Toryns eye color implant procedures 👇

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. — John 1:5

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — Matthew West (Week 26) 🎧

The Motions 🎶 Stop the World

Life really flies by… fleeting in a way that makes everything else fade for me… except the things that matter…

and I’ve concluded… these “things” are people…

not just my family and friends… but everyone.

because who am I… if I only care about and love those inside my own little circle?

Do others not have circles?

They do.

Let’s get inside them… you and me.

The Motions 🎶— Something to Say 2oO8

Stop the World 🎶— Something to Say 2oO8

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves.

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side ⛽ — Fuel (Week 26)

I Should Have Told You 🎶 Angels Take a Soul

So… it’s 3am… here at my spot on earth… and I’ve been listening to Fuel for the past hour… figuring out which songs I want to use…

I decided on the album “Angels & Devils” from 2oO7… it’s the first album featuring lead singer Toryn Green… instead of Brett Scallions… and honestly… it’s a great one… loaded with badass songs…

I chose two for you…

🎶 “I Should Have Told You”
🎶 “Angels Take a Soul”

Former Godsmack drummer Tommy Stewart was announced as the band’s new drummer… but was unable to perform on the album due to other commitments… so Josh Freese and Tommy Lee performed drums in his place.

Also it’s cool how Toryn joined the band… there’s a bonus video about it below… check it out…

Also I have a famous friend who’s friends with Tommy Lee… well… he used to be my friend… we don’t talk anymore… story for another time…

Hope yall enjoy… I’m going to bed…

Toryn Green

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — Matthew West (Week 25) 🎧

Happy 🎶 The Turnaround

What’s up yall… just want to say thank you… truly…
I appreciate your faithfulness and the support… always checkin’ my stuff out…

Matthew West is up again this week…
figured I’d dig a little deeper this time… pull out a couple real hidden gems…

I think he’s got a lot of ‘em… you just gotta go lookin’…
especially those early records… man, I really enjoy those…

Seems like most folks go straight to the radio hits…
and I get it… they’re hits for a reason… they’re great songs… I like ‘em too…

…but honestly…
it’s the lesser-known ones that hit me the hardest…
the ones tucked away a little…
those are the ones I keep comin’ back to…

Here’s two of ’em…

Happy 🎵
Happy 2oO3

The Turnaround 🎶
Happy 2oO3

Also… I got a super awesome bonus video of him…
with a couple ladies killin’ it on the background vocals in this song…
just found this one… 🔥

Hope you enjoy… yall be blessed…

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter…
but the glory of kings is to search it out.

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — ⛽️ Fuel (Week 25)

Running Away 🎶 Down Inside of You

so music is my thing…
it’s deep in me…
to my marrow…

Down Inside…

there’s just so much I like—
so many artists…
so many genres…

it almost feels infinite
when I really think on it…

but when it all comes down…

there are a few
that rise above the rest…

and if I were ever forced to choose—
or banished to some land
of musical communism…

it’d be guys like
Mike Ness and Social Distortion…

Shane & Shane…

Hank Williams Jr.…

and these guys…

Fuel.

usually a few times a month…

I wake in the morning…
and I’m like—

ya know what…?

today feels like
a FUELDAY. 💣💥💪

Running Away 🎶 Down Inside of You
from Natural Selection… 2oO3

I also included a really cool bonus video…
of Carl Bell…

the guitarist…
the mastermind behind Fuel…

he writes the songs…
he started the band…

he’s brilliant…
just… genius…

one of the top minds in music—
if you ask me.

thank yall for listenin’

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