BRANDON INGLE : Deep down inside, everyone is essentially the same. If you look close enough, you and I really aren’t that different at all. Your heart is passionately in love with something. Long ago, before life became clouded with schedule’s and routines, life’s purpose was to find what that was and then to live it out. I’ve found mine. The surface of mine, I discovered almost before I could speak. My mother ahs the voice of an angel and my house has always been filled with music. Long before I knew what I had found, my passion for music had blossomed. I was hooked, made music, or as my family called it “noise” with everything I could get my hands on. I, not to feed the cliché, performed everything form Al Green to George Straight, to the Beatles. Point is, as a child I viewed music as it should be, a living thing not to be constrained by genres. The only genres that existed in my world were “good music” and “not-so-good music.” For me, music equaled passion. Throughout the years that followed I began to learn that the world wasn’t perfect. There were people suffering who were no more deserving of it than you or I. There was nothing, I felt, I could do about it. I found my escape in music, but at that point it consisted only of singing my soul out and beating my drums to death. I got my first guitar my freshman year of college, and wrote my first song to win the heart of a girl. After all, every song in some way or another is about love isn’t it? But the discovery of this ability to play guitar and to form these feelings and ideas into songs brought about the passion that goes much deeper than the music that lies on the surface. People need to know that they really aren’t that different. They need to get lost in a melody, a lyric, a conversation that ‘s more than small talk. Whether it be on eight hour bus rides with forty guys and a guitar on a baseball road trip, or two best friends in the living room hearing the “new stuff” for the first time, it’s irrefutable, music, living music brings people together. Shortly after graduating college, I took off with a dream to make this two-fold passion my life. Now in Nashville it’s all coming to a head. When times get hard remember what the Doobie Brothers said, “You’ll always have the chance to give up, so why do it now?” My hope, in this biography, in my music, in my life is that whether it be through a song you hear or a conversation we have, you wouldn’t be able to help but breathe in my heart, my passion, my music. Cheers.