Songs from the Valley

Lover of Mine

A cover of If We Were Vampires, love this song desperately.

If We Were Vampires - Noah Kahan, Wesley Schultz (Cover)

Put Me in the Ground

Put Me in the Ground (feat. Austin Sawyer)

Oak Trees

Woodland

Bloom (Bonus Track)

 Vic Chesnutt

I'm not going to complain as I fall over for the forth time today
Just going to remind myself I no longer care about the experience 

These thoughts arrive just in time to keep me alive:
 I wish I could write Danny Carlisle or Isadora Duncan. Or Independence Day

 the pain or the morphine or pain it's my dilemma morphine or pain, my dilemma morphine or pain.

I stay inside my fortress, where I don't let no one come in 
cuz they might come to the conclusion that I smoke too many cigarettes.

And it keeps them from guessing that I drink too much too much too much, and I'm disguising my addiction with the promise that I'll get better soon cuz

 I wish that I could write Danny Carlisle or Isadora Duncan or Independence Day
 the pain or the morphine or pain it's my dilemma morphine or pain my dilemma morphine or pain

Constantly faking that it's keeping me alive so I won't give them the chance to contemplate my sanity or suicide 

 and I'll just keep on smoking cigarettes cuz it's keeping my lungs at bay, and all I have to say:

 I wish that I could write Danny Carlisle or Isadora Duncan or independence Day

the pain or the morphine or pain it's my dilemma morphine or pain my dilemma morphine or pain


I don't want to end up like Mr Gram Parsons not knowing who killed me and hearin' all the rumors of my demise or if I believe in God

I am a Cath-o-lic I am a Cath-o-lic I am a Cath-o-lic

Vic Chesnutt

American Soul is a journey through the heart of a modern cowboy—raw, reflective, and built on lived experience. Across nine tracks, the album blends gritty realism with emotional storytelling, capturing the quiet moments, heartbreaks, and hard-won strength that shape a man’s character.

It opens with “Cold Coffee Mornings,” a slow-burning reflection on routine and regret, before expanding into the dreamlike hope of “The Breath Between Stars.” Songs like “River Takes the Weight” and “Backroads Built My Heart” explore loss, memory, and the places that raised us, while “Porchlight Glow” brings warmth back into the darkness.

The middle of the record hits harder—“Dirt Road Revival” and “Iron In My Chest” pulse with grit, resilience, and the heavy bass of a life lived close to the edge. “Almost Had You” dives into heartbreak deep enough to leave a scar, while the finale, “Soul Fire Rising,” lifts the listener out of the ashes with a cinematic, powerful sense of rebirth.

From stripped-down acoustic moments to full-bodied, cinematic country crescendos, American Soul captures the dust, the quiet, the storms, and the resilience of a man carving meaning from a wild world—one song at a time.

Cold Coffee Mornings

A tender, porch-light country-folk ballad about an elderly couple spending a quiet Christmas alone together for the first time in decades, now that the kids are grown and gone. With warm memories flickering like tree lights, they reflect on burnt turkeys, broken angels, northern lights, and fifty winters shared. It’s a gentle celebration of enduring love that’s moved past the noise of young family holidays into something softer, deeper, and perfectly enough: just the two of them, still each other’s home.

Oak Trees

Daniel Nunnelee