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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…

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Anyways… hope you enjoy… I appreciate you.

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Credit Alamy.com
Credit Alamy.com

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

Wasted Time 🎶 Halos of the Son

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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 ⛽️…

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Wasted Time 🎶 Angels & Devils — 2oO7

Halos of the Son 🎶 Angels & Devils — 2oO7

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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…

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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…

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Hope yall have a great week… Thanks for listening…

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Toryns eye color implant procedures 👇

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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 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 —Matthew West (Week 23)

History 🎵 Get Away

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Matthew West’s one of those artists where it just feels real. A lot of his songs are pulled from real-life stories—people writing in, sharing what they’ve been through—and he turns that into something honest. He’s been through it himself too… even lost his voice for a season and had to fight his way back. He’s also written for artists like Casting Crowns, Rascal Flatts, and Mandisa—which says a lot about how strong his writing really is. You can hear it in his own music—nothing forced, nothing fake… just faith, struggle, and redemption showing up in the songs.

First up—
🎵 History
History (2o05)

Next—
🎵 Get Away
History (2o05)

Also I’ve included a cool bonus video where Matthew surprises a fan from Twitter with a phone call… a song… and a prayer.

Hope yall enjoy… 🙌🙏t`’

Matthew 11:28
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — ⛽️ FUEL (Week 22)

Falls On Me 🎵 Sunburn

Hey yall… thanks for joining me again…

So before Fuel was even Fuel…
they moved through a couple early names like…
“ReelTooReal”…
and “Small the Joy”…
before everything finally settled into place.

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And right at the center of it all—

was Carl Bell.

Lead guitarist…
but more than that—the architect.

The one writing the songs…
lyrics… music… structure…
building the sound from the ground up…

and even producing along the way.

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Because Fuel…
was never just a band…

it was Carl Bell’s vision—
brought to life through the voice of Brett Scallions.

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Today—I’ve got two good ones for you 🎧🔥

🎵 Falls On Me — Natural Selection (2003)
🎵 Sunburn — Sunburn (1998)

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I’ll be here a while with these guys…
hope yall enjoy 🔥

Carl Bell… the mastermind

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — ⛽️ FUEL (Week 21)

Hemorrhage (In My Hands) 🎵 Leave the Memories Alone

More Fuel… just for you…

I’m gonna be here a while… because… they’re incredible… and there’s just too many great songs… honestly… they’re one of my favorites… top 3 easy…

So here’s a cool recent story…

My uncle… he’s one of a kind…
musician… singer… painter… writer…
pilot… great cook… tells the best jokes… haha…
super funny… just a straight up… Rockstar Renaissance dude…

He’s dealing with a rare form of cancer…
and he calls me most every day…

So last time we were talking… music… bands…
he asks me—
“you know that band DIESEL?”

I said… nah… not ringing a bell…

He goes—
“yeah… DIESEL… they sing that song Hemorrhage…”

I said—
“Oooo… you mean FUEL bro…”

He pauses…
“…yeah… FUEL!” 😂

He said they’re awesome…

I told him—
yeah… you’re absolutely right…
and started throwing him a few more songs to check out from them…

So… here’s two of them…

🎵 Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
🎵 Leave the Memories Alone

Hope you enjoy…

Also… I’m easing you into them… right now you’re getting milk from the baby’s bottle…
later on… you can graduate to the red meat 🍖😋…

Also… Fuel had two different lead singers… over time… Brett Scallions and Toryn Green… Brett was first… Toryn came later… I’m a Brett fan… but Toryn is cool too… hemorrhage is Brett era… leave the memories alone is Toryn…

Brett Scallions era
Toryn Green era

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — ⛽️ FUEL (Week 20)

Shimmer 🎶 Bad Day…

So today I’m moving on… FUEL anyone?…

Man… I’m so loaded up with music and bands… sometimes I just sit there like… who’s next?… there’s just too many…

But yeah… Fuel… one of my favorites.
They’re a little different… some songs are slower… easy… almost laid back… but when they decide to… they can come in hard and rock the absolute crap out of you.

I’ve seen them a few times… but here’s a cool one…

I lived in Leesburg, Florida from 2o16–2o21… little old house… about two blocks from downtown. Leesburg is known for Bikefest every year… bands playing all week long…

And I’m not kidding… I could always hear it all from inside my house… loud and clear.

So it’s 2o17… I’m laying on my bed one day… windows open… just chilling…

Then all of a sudden…

music cuts through the silence…

this band starts rocking… hard… sounding really good…

I’m laying there like… hold up… who is that?…

then it hits me…

duuuude… it’s Fuel !!! 😁🥳😎

So yeah… I just laid there… in my bed… and listened to their whole set that evening…

super cool.

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I got two for you now…

🎧 Shimmer — Sunburn (1998)

🎧 Bad Day — Something Like Human (2oO0)

Shimmer is the song that put them on the map… these 2 are a little more chill… in coming weeks… I’ll let them rock harder for you… thought I’d take it easy on you for starters 😏…

The concert I heard from my bedroom evening

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — Flyleaf (Week 19)

There For You 🎶 Cage On The Ground…

Before Lacey Sturm ever stepped on stage with Flyleaf, she had already lived through the kind of darkness most people only write about. As a teenager she battled deep depression and survived a suicide attempt… and what came after reshaped everything. Her faith didn’t become an image or a lane — it became the core of who she was. That’s why her voice hits different. It’s not just tone or technique… it’s survival, it’s prayer, it’s something real breaking through. A lot of those Flyleaf songs weren’t crafted for radio… they came straight from her journals, her struggles, her conversations with God. That’s why you feel them more than you just hear them.

What makes her story even more wild… she walked away from it all in 2012, right when things were peaking after New Horizons. No drama… no crash… just a decision to step back for her family and her calling. Most artists hold on tighter at that point — she let go. And when she came back, it wasn’t to pick up where she left off… it was to start fresh with her own solo career. Same intensity, same raw honesty… just even more personal and stripped down. That contrast you hear in her — the softness and the scream, the broken and the bold — that’s not a style she learned… that’s a life she lived.

There For You 🎶
Year: 2005
Album: Flyleaf

Cage On The Ground 🎶
Year: 2012
Album: New Horizons

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✝️ 1 John 3:18
“Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”

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Hidden Gems from the B-Side — Life Side (Week 14)

Matthew Sweet — “Girlfriend” 🎵 “Sick of Myself” 🎶

Athens, Georgia is home to the University of Georgia… Go Dawgs! 🐾 — and it’s also one of the great music cities in America, birthing many iconic bands like R.E.M., The B-52’s, and Widespread Panic, just to name a few.. And this next guy… Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who became a key figure in ’90s alternative rock and power pop. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he moved to Athens, Georgia to plug into that legendary scene before breaking through with Girlfriend (1991) — hooky, heartfelt guitar pop — and following it with 100% Fun (1995), featuring the self-aware anthem “Sick of Myself.” Classic melodies, honest emotion, zero filler.

🎵 “Girlfriend” — from the album Girlfriend (1991)

🎶 “Sick of Myself” — from the album 100% Fun (1995)

Hope yall enjoy this little trip back into some seriously good ’90s sound. 🎸

Bonus live acoustic version 👇

In a world that’s ugly and a lie.. it’s hard to even want to try…

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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.. 👇

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🙏❤️…….. Knock Down Walls… lyric tower..

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