Gary Wayne Hudgins’ upbeat Honkey-Tonk Heaven recording is a fun, toe-tapping Country/Americana/Blues composition, featuring GWH’s slide acoustic guitar work. Singing lyrics inspired by autobiographical events, Gary Wayne Hudgins performed and recorded all the instrument tracks for Honkey-Tonk Heaven in his home studio. The song was originally recorded in 2010 and featured on a self-published, limited-edition CD, The Proverbinators, as well as on now-defunct internet radio station IM Radio. He also engineered, mixed, and mastered the recording – and busted out his oil pastels to make the digital cover art expressly for the song. In fact, you can get the nifty artwork on t-shirts (and other things) at https://fineartamerica.com/featured/honkey-tonk-heaven-song-merch-gw-hudgins.html. There is also a lyric video available at https://youtu.be/vQXHxbjvPEA.

Honkey-Tonk Heaven

Honkey - Tonk Heaven

Gary Wayne Hudgins’ Hearts Waltz Instrumental recording is an original, Folk/Classical acoustic guitar duet. Its mood is aristocratic, with a touch of mystery. You can imagine a couple of 17th Century spies waltzing to this song at the King’s Ball. Gary Wayne Hudgins recorded himself performing both parts, as well as engineered, mixed, and mastered the recording in his home studio. The cover image is also made by Gary Wayne Hudgins, using a digital photograph he took of the guitar that you hear in the song.

Hearts Waltz (Instrumental)

Hearts Waltz Instrumental

Gary Wayne Hudgins’ Smile On Me Instrumental recording is an original, Blues/Folk composition, featuring slide acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and bass guitar. A poignant song, it was written in advance for use in a friend’s documentary about a homeless shelter, but that project never got off the ground. Gary Wayne Hudgins recorded himself performing all instruments, as well as engineered, mixed, and mastered the recording in his home studio. The oil painting used for the song’s digital cover art is also made by Gary Wayne Hudgins, which features his sweet-natured mini-Lab Violet, who is fond of sniffing flowers and smiling.

Smile On Me Instrumental

Gary Wayne Hudgins’ Whatever Happens Instrumental recording is an original, acoustic guitar Folk composition, with a Country flavor. The song’s calming, chilled-out mood would also be at home in a New Age playlist. Gary Wayne Hudgins recorded himself performing the two acoustic guitar parts, as well as engineered and mastered the recording, all in his home studio. Whatever Happens Instrumental originally appeared on Hudgins’ home-published, limited-edition CD Chillin’, a collection of laid-back, original instrumentals given as gifts to friends & family, and to art show patrons that bought Hudgins’ paintings. A version of Whatever Happens with lyrics was recorded in 2010 and featured on another self-published, limited-edition CD, The Proverbinators, as well as on now-defunct internet radio station IM Radio. The oil painting used for the single’s digital cover art, Imminent Front, was painted by GW Hudgins (the name Gary Wayne Hudgins often uses to sign his visual art with).

Whatever Happens (Instrumental)

Whatever Happens Instrumental

Gary Wayne Hudgins’ Write of Spring Instrumental is an original acoustic guitar solo. Certainly not nearly as shocking as Stravinsky’s experimental Rite of Spring ballet was more than a century ago, Hudgins’ Write of Spring is a somewhat experimental departure from his usual compositions written for acoustic guitar. Hudgins’ composition drew on memories of springtime in the woods surrounding his early childhood home exploring the verdant woodland floor, chasing dragonflies, climbing trees, and discovering all manner of flora and fauna.

Write of Spring (Instrumental)

Write Of Spring

Gary Wayne Hudgins’ Silent Night Train recording is an upbeat, Americana instrumental version of the traditional Christmas song Silent Night. (Composed by Franz Xaver Gruber in 1818,
Silent Night is in the Public Domain.) Gary Wayne Hudgins recorded himself performing all the instruments, as well as engineered and mastered the recording in his home studio. Hudgins’ composition (and oil pastel used on the single’s digital cover) was rooted in childhood memories of the sight and sound of the Norfolk Southern coal trains he used to wave at as they lumbered through his Aunt Ruby’s neighborhood. Hudgins originally recorded the song in 2006 to share with friends via email. In 2010, it got some exposure on now-defunct internet radio station IMRadio but wasn’t officially released until 2020 via online digital distributor of independent music CDBaby.

Silent Night Train

Run Like Hell Instrumental

Gary Wayne Hudgins' unplugged version of his favorite, semi-autobiographical song, Honkey-Tonk Heaven Unplugged, features just his voice and acoustic guitar. Played for a small but appreciative studio audience.

Honkey - Tonk Heaven Unplugged

See the music video at https://youtu.be/LTKYg1AHE4s?si=WmlAYStyBmKVthyC

There is also an instrumental version of this acoustic folk song here on Soundcloud as well as most streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music. 

Learn more about my music at my under-construction-but-published-anyway web site at garywaynehudgins.com

Whatever Happens

Gary Wayne Hudgins is a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who enjoys working in (and blending) various genres such as Country, Folk, Rock, Blues, Indy Rock, Christian. He started writing songs in the 70s and has a lot of material to record and share with the world.

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