Day-by-day, I find it harder to forgive the busboy who killed the metal dobro I used when I recorded this one. Lawdy, I miss that guitar!

It's what is referred to as the GRIT in your belly, that is fueling the Occupy movement we the people have always had this character and resilience .

We all struggle to find that peace in our hearts, to care about our love ones, and to care about what is important. The struggle is who and what we amount to.

A better world starts with learning to get along with the one you'r with

The mind always stretches out looking for that peaceful place in our souls.

Another chapter in the ever constant yearning for the better life.

There is more than a few side tracks on the road to health and happyness

And the up hill struggle continues

jqscutt posted the acoustic guitar track looking for ideas, not sure if it turned into the genre he was looking for :) The auuuggga horn sound was another classic unplanned phone interruption during the vocal recording but it seems to fit in…

The old bear noising it up.

Oh well, nothing like going to a middle school music function to break writers block, all those posters and flare about achievement... Special thanks to my sons middle school band, The Preston Pumas playing at the end !

Live recording with guitar and voice.

Lyrics and music by Brian Vaughn. Love, love, love... Look up and down. There are shapes in the clouds, And ants on the ground who march in line, To the roots of a tree, Whose bark carries the name, Of a girl whose boy thought her worth…

A quick tune for the late poet Wilmer Mills, who recently passed away at 41 from liver cancer. He was an active musician, woodworker, and baker. The title from this track comes from the name he gave his wood-fired oven, "Companis," which translates…

Words and music by Brian Vaughn. Just repeat what they say to me. Assume I'll automatically agree, and I- You expect I'll nod my head, Or shut-up if I don't agree with We love inventing our dichotomies Who gives a shit about reality- When he…

I used to be such a believer in God. But then I started losing faith and wondering where he is. Was all that time i spent being a christian a waste of time. If hes here i need him to show me because my faith has been hindered over sometime.am…

While I don't feel at all worthy of being considered a devout man. I intend to keep asking God to get me where he wants me to go.

The loves that we find pass through our lives, memory's hold moments long after.