Name: Life's A Beach by Robert Weston
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Description: On July 14th (my birthday) I’ll re-release my single ‘Life’s A Beach’, together with 3 (❗️) acoustic versions of songs from my upcoming album ‘Won’t Settle Down’. If you're a follower to my Soundcloud, you can totally listen to the tracks right now.

Mike Kuster's second studio album follows up on his critically acclaimed debut album which was named an "Essential Album of 2022" by multiple outlets, five successive #1 singles and earned him "Country Impact Artist of the Year" in 2022 by IMN.

Country So Fresh You Have To Check Your Boots

Back To Feagaville

A song I wrote way back in the early 90's. My friend, Ron Black (aka Big Daddy), played lead guitar here as well as the suggestion to add a jaw harp. I said WTF? Anyway, I added it and I think it makes it all more interesting. Ron played lead guitar here as well.

Track List:
1-6: Drums
7-9: Acoustic (including a Nashville tuned guitar)
10: Bass
11: Lead Guitar
12: Tambourine
13-14: Keys
15: Vocal
16-17: Jaw Harp

Demos

Rolling Down the Hill

1

Something there is deep inside us 
Beckons us to Love
 A spirit gentle & bounding
One night in the moonlight’s thrall 
Ten eternities worshipful 
By Fury’s counting
War in the morning 
& songs by the evening fire 
Compatriots drinking, adoring
Declared love ye who’ve shared blood in arms
 This is not your King’s due devotion
 No, nothing so boring
She hies to the Wood & its unknowable powers 
His face in the firelight, hours upon hours
 Is he just an animal the colour of flowers? 
History, see how Fury cowers!

2

Something there is deep inside us 
Beckons us to Madness 
A Figure crooked & hoary
Upright & condign to the sins 
Of these litterbug tribes 
& talent trebled, that was Fury
But now how would the King feel? 
What might the lover reveal? 
This un-goated Faun finds appalling
Our sunlight, our once-bright star 
Charming, confident, & kind 
Our fairy archer, our darling
Stumbling round some high wasteland 
Furs matted down by tears of the damned
 By the soot of the fire, by the blood of the Lamb
 Crying out: “Fury I nothing am.”

3

Something there is deep inside us 
Beckons us to Death 
For Whom we spend our lives rehearsing
However we imagine we exist 
By our own wits, no:
 It is only by His mercy
Slain in the schoolyard 
Decaying on some battlefield 
Grant some great reward to the deserving
In this shortened form
Horns shorn, more & more
 I abhor this grand illusion
 They imagine worth preserving
Atoms of betrayal alive in our lungs
 Horrible most of us, just miserable some
 “This is my dog, that’s my place in the sun...” 
What Fury is, why fear we to become?

4

Something there is deep inside us 
Beckons us to Song 
In a chamber like a heart’s, but larger
& to find a heart, tiny in all that darkness 
Takes unmatchable aim 
It takes a genius, it takes an Archer  
Exhume the villages! 
All the artists & arsonists
 Sworn in their boredom in the dark
We all sing now together as ghosts 
& only in the Song
 Do we remember who we are
Failing to fetch Her at first, carry on 
She stops & waits for you in the great beyond 
Just four things to each can e’er truly belong: 
Love, Madness, Death, & Song.

The Knowledge (band version)

Hello and thank you for listening.  Here's another cover we like to play live.  A great crowd pleaser.  
Thank you for listening.
Joseph James (Band)

Wagon Wheel - Darius Rucker/Dylan Cover

Well it started out like any other day on earth,
everything accounted for assigned its worth
Its all that you’ve been working for, since your birth until you die

Grab a cup of coffee out the door so fast, gave you a kiss that could be our last,
I didn’t say I love you but you know that it will always be that way 

VERSE 2:
Step out the door, the air smells so fine
Spring thaw and the dandelions
I take one last look just to know that it is real

Then all in a moment I was beggin please
What i couldn’t plan for brought me to my knees
And as I lay there dying, a voice said to me now
Son what you wanna do with your last time here?

CHORUS:
And I said, play that song that I know so well,
And I’ll sing it out until my final breath
Its the one about love and stars and the way that takes me home
And even though we come and go alone, I know my soul’s part of a greater whole
Ima miss the sun, the sky, and the trees, but most of all I’ll miss you and me

VERSE 3:
 Open ends and words unsaid, little moments that never left your head
All come together to make the bed in which you’re lying
Cause all in an instant it could be the end,
And would you be satisfied with how its been
And as I lay there dying a voice said to me now,
Son what you wanna do with your last time here?


CHORUS:
And I said, play that song that I know so well,
And I’ll sing it out until my final breath
Its the one about love and the stars and the way that takes me home
And even though we come and go alone, I know my soul’s part of a greater whole
And Ima miss the sun, the sky, and the trees, but most of all I’ll miss you and me
And Ima miss the sun, the sky, and the trees, but most of all I’ll miss you and me

You & Me

Mama’s Song 

Thank you for all that you do even when you risked your own life to protect us this one is for you mama.

Mama's Song

FIXING CARS
by Tawna Goforth, Hal ODell

V1-
I CAN STILL HEAR HIM SAY, "PUNKIN’, PASS ME THAT THREE EIGHTHS
AND SCOOT THAT LIGHT, A LITTLE RIGHT"
STANDING TIPTOE TALL, BLONDE BRAIDS AND OVERALLS
I’D LEAN BENEATH THE HOOD, TRYING TO GET A BETTER LOOK
FOR A KID IT’S TOUGH TO PAY ATTENTION
HE’D SAY LISTEN 

CH-
IT MIGHT GET A LITTLE GREASY
MIGHT BEND BUT IT WON’T BREAK
WHEN THINGS GET HARD THE WAY THEY DO
YOU DON’T JUST WALK AWAY

IT MIGHT START A LITTLE RUSTY
BUT IT’LL SHINE LIKE THE STARS
NOW I SEE WHAT HE KNEW ALL ALONG
WE WEREN’T JUST FIXING CARS

V2.
GREW UP AND I MOVED ON, CHASING DREAMS SONG BY SONG
A LITTLE OLDER A LITTLE WISER, HANGING ONTO THOSE REMINDERS
COME ON GIRL, FINISH WHAT YOU START 
HIS (LIFE) LESSONS WRITTEN ON MY HEART

CH-

LAST CH- 
YOU MIGHT GET A LITTLE GREASY
MIGHT BEND BUT YOU WON’T BREAK
WHEN THINGS GET HARD THE WAY THEY DO
YOU DON’T JUST WALK AWAY

IT MIGHT START A LITTLE RUSTY
BUT IT’LL SHINE LIKE THE STARS
TO THINK IT ALL BEGAN IN THAT GARAGE
NOW I SEE WHAT HE KNEW ALL ALONG
WE WEREN’T JUST FIXING CARS

contact Hal ODell, (615)720-7799; halinthemountains@gmail.com

Fixing Cars

FIXING CARS

On July 14th (my birthday) I’ll re-release my single ‘Life’s A Beach’, together with 3 (❗️) acoustic versions of songs from my upcoming album ‘Won’t Settle Down’. If you're a follower to my Soundcloud, you can totally listen to the tracks right now.

Life's A Beach

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Something Like Summer (D. Allen / J. Arthur / C. Fradin)

That special someone that you fell in love with but never told her until it was TOO late! What might've been is all that's left to ponder!

BREAKIN' MY HEART

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Life's A Beach

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