The Love You Know

I could say a lot about 2024. It was an incredibly trying year for my entire family however, I feel that life always has a way of balancing itself back out. Just because you’re on the tipping scale right now about to fall off doesn’t mean it’s going to stay like that forever. Honesly the first half of 2024 I felt that I did utterly nothing but work a job I hated. Fast forward to the second half of not being able to work that job because of countless hospital visits and tests, having a stroke and a heart procedure. I started feeling really grateful in hindsight that I was working that job. Money goes away as fast as it can come in. The other much more important thing I have thought about more than ever in 2024 was my family. How grateful I am to have people that care in my life and want to see me win.

My cousin is deployed halfway around the world right now and has been for the last 9 months. Leaving our family and his immediate family, including his wife and two kids. I can imagine and can attest for myself that it’s one of the hardest things I think they’ll ever have to endure. However, what 2024 has shown me is that the harder things get, the more I realize I’m strong enough to endure and push through them. No matter what you are dealing with I know you want to push forward, you must. What else is there but resilience, faith and a few hardships along the way to show you tangible evidence that you are capable to endure. But while youre at it, don’t forget to share the love you know. Much Love TB

All Your Life

Honestly the first time I heard the mastered version of this song I cried. I just knew that it would help people struggling mentally, physically and spiritually that really needed to hear it. I believe that is my mission with all of the music I’ve made from Metal to Pop. No matter what you are making at the end of the day the main goal is for it to resonate for a particular avatar. I feel that with each of my music releases I learn something new as I go through the process of writing it but also as I release it I learn a lot as well. This last few months has been tough for me lately. I don’t feel as many eyes (and ears) that I know I’m capable of reaching are hearing what I want to say, feels like the world is shouting and I can either stoop to their level and yell or I can continue doing what I’m doing and slowly let people notice my message and let it resonate for them. I’m grateful that God has given me the drive to push through even almost daily my mind tries to trick me into thinking ‘what are you doing this for’ but I refuse, I must. I keep cycling through thoughts of, if I wasn’t doing this then I’d have zero direction and purpose. Just because no ones paying attention now does not mean it will be this way forever. I know what I make is not for everyone but no one else can make what I make and same goes for you. That is your superpower. Do not give up because of numbers and bleeps and bloops on a computer screen, the love you poor into what you make is what keeps you going and at turning point will be what keeps other people going. If you don’t give up then you cannot fail. Much Love TB

Summer Bummer

Very ironically I wrote this song kind of about myself.

I recently had a stroke and before then I would get so upset over sometimes the most minute of things. After the stroke I really have much more of an appreciation for the exact second of the present and every given minute of my day. I think I received a much needed reset that has shown me so many things about myself that I needed to work on. I think the old me would be almost annoyed or feel too overwhelmed at the list of things I need to work on but the new me says, no it’s okay I can do this. So yes there are certainly a few Summer Bummer’s (girls Ive been with lol) that this song definitely triggers emotions of but hilariously I relate to it myself more than anything. It just goes to show you need to recalibrate sometimes when life gets too heavy, sometimes you have to stop while everyone else seems to be passing you, pull this car over and unload the baggage that you’ve been carrying for far too long. So I hope you unload your baggage. Don’t be your own Summer Bummer. Much love TB

Not Alone

I held onto this song for about two years before I released it perhaps out of insecurity. Then again perhaps it’s because I was paralyzed by working a full time job and letting that consume me, like we all tend to regrettably. But I thought about it and had been watching Nic D videos on youtube and he had said ‘Done is better than Perfect’ and it has truly changed my life. I set my released date for Not Alone I think the very next night. Im so grateful that I discovered him and his awesome advice because I really needed to hear what he had to say. Shout out to Austin Coupe who did the vocal mix on it and has gone on to do things that I don’t think even he imagined. It’s amazing to see your friends succeed in monumental ways. Support your friends and don’t be jealous. If you are then you aren’t their friend. That goes both ways. Much love TB