so looking to the sky ¡ sing and from my heart to YOU ¡ bring…
🎧 U2 & Drivin N Cryin Covers
Come with me…
Let me take you
where the dogwoods bloom,
to the honeysuckle blue.
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All pictures are of Georgia, and the river is the Chattahoochee. Drivin N Cryin is an Atlanta band, and the song “Honeysuckle Blue” mentions the river, the dogwoods, and the North Georgia mountains.
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Cover of Jolene
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🎧 Covers from Sister Hazel and Tonic
When I was a teenager, playing and singing, I would go for hours and hours alone in my room. I was passionate about it, and it brought me so much joy, peace, and healing.
Then I got older, and drugs and alcohol entered the picture. And people. Things changed.
Then, I kind of forgot about secular music for a while and had my Christian music ministry. Toward the end of that, I just felt burned out and dealing with these ongoing heavy things, it made me lose the fire.
So I quit playing for a handful of years and wasn’t sure I’d ever play again.
Well, I started playing again this year, as some of you know, and it’s just been amazing for me.
I feel like that kid again.
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Here’s 2 songs that are the epitome of great hidden B-side gems. I just recorded these tonight, a few hours ago.
Wanted It To Be by Sister Hazel — 1996
Knock Down Walls by Tonic — 1999
Hope yall enjoy.
Thanks for listening.
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🎧 Covers From Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Tesla
I share some of my blog posts on my other platforms and with people I’m connected to in ministry. I’ve had quite a few people ask me about what happened to me with the crossroads thing, so I decided to share the story in an audio recording.
I also added 2 songs I just recorded, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” and “Love Song.” I hope yall enjoy them, and thank you for your continued support.
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🎧 This Week’s New Song
The past few days, I’ve woke up with this song on my lips, along with some drool because I’ve been sleeping like a sedated arctic fox lately.
Take It Back by Sister Hazel.
I’m a huge fan, and I do most of the ones from them, but I’ve never tried this one. So late last night, I messed around with it, and as I got into it, I realized the words reminded me of a past relationship.
The only time I ever said “I do.”
But what I meant to say was… Wait, wait, hold up! I mean, no, no, I don’t!
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Sometimes when I’m attempting one for the first time, I’ll slow it down. For instance, with this one, as I began, I decided at the last minute to do it in a different key. Also, I’m not doing it the same as Sister Hazel. For the most part, I kept the same progression, but I changed it up some in the moment as I felt.
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I try and practice playing guitar every couple of days. Many times I’m trying to remember songs and solos I haven’t played in 20 to 30 years. I also like learning new songs every week or two.
I have a few recording apps I use and I’m still figuring them out, so a lot of times I’ll record my practice sessions so that I can go back later and tinker with all the settings on the apps and try and perfect the sound quality.
So here’s a lil behind the scenes in the bathroom. This is me practicing the Meat Puppets song “Lake of Fire.” You may remember Kurt Cobain performing it on the Nirvana MTV Unplugged album. Kurt was infatuated with the Meat Puppets. I’m a huge fan of theirs also. One of my favorite records to this day is Too High to Die.
This song led me down a rabbit trail and I ended up doing many of their songs and Nirvana too.
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© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson. All rights reserved.
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🎧 Hank Williams Jr. and Bad Company Covers
My first memories as a child are of sitting beside my great grandmother as she played the piano and sang Christian songs. I’ve been singing ever since.
But I never planned on being a musician. It was more like it chose me and I could take my heart there.
It’s such a great thing to have people to talk to. Friends. Family. A counselor. A therapist. Your pastor. Someone. Anyone.
I didn’t have any of that as a young Gen X teenager.
I just had a dead best friend and God and Guitar.
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I’m just a singer, a natural-born guitar ringer
Kind of a clinger to sad old songs
I’m not a walk-behinder, I’m a new note finder
But my name’s a reminder of a blues man that’s already gone
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Covers From Tenth Avenue North
My dad once told me a story years ago about a strange man who approached him in a truck stop parking lot.
He said he was getting out of his truck and suddenly there was a man right there in front of him. He thought the guy was about to rob him, but instead, he gets right up in my dad’s face and says, “You’re going to see a miracle in your family.”
Then the guy turns and walks away.
My dad said that he looked away for a second and then looked back up, and the guy was gone. Just disappeared.
My dad thinks it was an angel, and he thinks the miracle is meant for me.
I could really use one right now.
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Painting by Adrian Litman
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🎧 a Bob Marley Parody • a K-Ci & JoJo Cover
These next two recordings are some more of my first raw ones from months ago. Both of these were sent as voice text messages and were totally spontaneous and spur-of-the-moment. I had no idea that I was going to do either one in this fashion. Both are pretty lo-fi and were done without any of my studio apps, but I did try to clean them up a little bit.
I had planned on doing “No Woman, No Cry” by Bob Marley, but as I got ready to do it, this idea popped into my head to be funny with it and use an accent on my voice. Then suddenly, an inside joke between the person and me came to mind, and I changed it to “No Punani, No Cry.” 😆 For some of it, I was just making up lyrics as I went along. Lol.
For the second one, I was feeling like doing a ’90s R&B love song. In the moment, I was thinking along the lines of Boyz II Men or maybe Keith Sweat or something. Then suddenly, “All My Life” by K-Ci & JoJo came to mind, but I kind of ad-libbed it and did my own version completely out of the blue.
These two are different from my others, but I think it’s kind of cool how they turned out. Neither one was planned—they just happened in the moment. So I thought I’d share them.
Appreciate yall. Thanks for listening. 😎
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Close To Me You’re Like My Mother
Close To Me You’re Like My Father
Close To Me You’re Like My Sister
Close To Me You’re Like My Brother
Close To Me You’re Like No Other
No Other Will Do.
© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson. All rights reserved.
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I’ve had this song on my mind all day. “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry” written by Louden Wainwright III in 1973—the year I was born—and later recorded by Johnny Cash in 1994.
So I listened to it a few times this morning. Then, while I was making dinner tonight, I put on my headphones and had it on repeat for about an hour nonstop.
After dinner, I went into the studio… aka the Bathroom. 🚻😛 I tried it for the first time, and this is the result.
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