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🎙️Songs From the Bathroom #21

🎧 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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Wanted It To Be
Knock Down Walls

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© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson. All rights reserved.

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🎙️Songs From the Bathroom #10

🎧 Covers from Sister Hazel and Tonic

Hey everyone… hope you’re doing good this night.

So these next two are my very first ones that I did in the bathroom, both are a little more lo-fi and raw, before I started using Lexis Audio Editor… and before I knew I’d be posting them for everyone to hear. 😁

Hope you enjoy… thanks for listening.

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Better Way – Sister Hazel
Mr. Golden Deal – Tonic

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Featured image is hand painted, not AI

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2nd Oldest Tree In Florida

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© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson

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Hidden Gems From The B-Side.. Life Side (Week 13)

Tonic — 3 Songs + 1 Encore (Final Send-Off)

One last ride for Tonic—
a small send-off to a band that carried seasons of my life.
Their songs were companions more than tracks…
Windows down… volume up… thanks for the road…

🎵 If You Could Only See
🎵 Queen
🎵 Let Me Go

Encore (King of the Hill cover) 👇

🎵 East Bound and Down

Encore 👇👏

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© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson. All rights reserved.

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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..

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© 2026 Bryan H. All rights reserved.  

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Hidden Gems From The B-Side.. Life Side (Week 10)

Tonic 🎶 Future Says Run 🎶 Sugar…

Sup my people…
I’m sticking with Tonic this week… just too many great songs to leave behind…
Thought I’d let you experience them on a deeper level…
They’ve always been such an underrated deal…
except for those of us who know…

So I’ve got two more for you…

🎵 Future Says Run
Album… Sugar
Release year… 1998

🎵 Sugar
Album… Sugar
Release year… 1998

I hope yall enjoy…
So press play…
and let’s go over this midweek hump together…

…….⏳<3→👀→✅…💬”im right”…🙏<3…🚫⏸️…🌙⚡<3’…….<3~⏳~→?→=…”:;=;”…<3→/→!→…~NOW~’…….<3~⏳~…👁…”:;right?;”…<3…~no fear~…🌙’

© Bryan H. 2026 — 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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Hidden Gems From The B-Side.. Life Side (Week 8)

Tonic 🎶 Open Up Your Eyes 🎶 Mr. Golden Deal…

Hey yall… I got two more songs from Tonic for you…

Open Up Your Eyes — from their 1996 debut album Lemon Parade —
It’s a great one… I like the video too… how they start dancing on the skates at the end… lol

Mr. Golden Deal… also from Lemon Parade (1996)… I love this one… it’s like poetry…

easy to skip past…
worth stopping for…

Hidden gems… I think..
I hope yall enjoy them…

…….💎🎶~→💿🎶’…….<¤>~→||→=||~’

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year in 2o26… here’s to turning pages — not running from them…

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Hidden Gems From The B-Side.. Life Side (Week 7)

Tonic 🎶 You Wanted More 🎶 Waltz With Me…

Hey yall… today the spotlight lands on Tonic…
They’re excellent if you ask me.. I was so impacted by their music back in the mid-90s… and they’ve stayed one of my favorites through the years.. I still perform their songs to this day… because they live deep in me. They formed in 1993 in Los Angeles.. with Emerson Hart leading the way on vocals… and they’ve always had a way of mixing honesty.. heart.. and melody in a way that just hits life right where it lives…

I’ve got two songs for you today…

🎵 You Wanted More — 1999 — from the album Sugar… (also it was featured on the soundtrack from the movie “American Pie…”)

🎵 Waltz With Me — also from Sugar 1999… a beautiful track…

Hope you enjoy… press play and let the songs do what they do…

..¼3…..*=/\|♪|/\=*’..[…]..*=/\|::|/\=*’=/\ /\/\= = …………….`’.°~ ¡-~-¡`.,-;-‘

Tell me something… Will we be broken down…¿