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Monday, April 11, 2022

#MusicMonday: Radio Play Across the USA

#MusicMonday is dedicated to radio play, exploring a station a day, across the USA.

Listen to 1 song a day from each station below and add a comment with the name of the song you heard. If you catch talk radio or a commercial, keep listening until a song plays. Even if you don't like the song, try to listen through it!

image of small radio with antenna, speaker, dials, tuner

"It is our ability to listen that makes the difference."

    Monday, November 15, 2021

    #MusicMonday - Aloe Blacc: "Other Side"

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to the song "Other Side" by Aloe Blacc: heartfelt, thought provoking, and timeless. I challenge you to close your eyes and listen with your heart. What "other side" do you need to, or can you help someone else to, push through to?


    Monday, September 13, 2021

    #MusicMonday - Vivo Movie & Motion Picture Soundtrack

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to the movie Vivo, which has an Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album by Alex Lacamoire and Lin-Manuel Miranda. This movie showcases amazing music on a journey to fulfill destiny and deliver a love song.

    Monday, September 6, 2021

    #MusicMonday - Tones And I

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to Tones And I, featuring the debut album Welcome to the Madhouse. My favorite song so far is "Fly Away" because it is upbeat, fun, intriguing, powerful, and will take you on a ride. Put it on repeat, turn it up, and let it go for a few rounds, you'll find something new you like each time you listen. 


    I had a dream that someday
    I would just fly, fly away
    And I always knew I couldn't stay
    So I had a dream that I'd just fly away

    I've been on my own for a minute
    Is it only me out here
    Searching for the place to begin it
    Is it me? Is it you? Is it fear?
    Standing on the line I was given
    People stare and ask me why I'm here
    No one seems to think that I fit in
    But I don't wanna be like them

    No, 'cause I don't wanna be like them
    'Cause I know that I, know that I

    I had a dream that someday
    I would just fly, fly away
    And I always knew I couldn't stay
    So I had a dream that I'd just fly away, away, oh
    Oh-oh, woah, oh, I'd fly away

    No one knew how low I was feeling
    I was scared to reach it all
    Knowing I was here for a reason
    But I was scared that if I tried, I'd fall
    So where do I go now I'm in it?
    I never thought it'd be like this
    Dreaming all my life and I did it
    Thought the grass was greener than then it is

    'Cause I had a dream that someday
    I would just fly, fly away
    And I always knew I couldn't stay
    So I had a dream that I'd just fly away, away, oh
    Oh-oh, woah, oh, I'd fly away
    Oh, woah, woah, oh I'd fly away

    'Cause I had a dream that someday
    I would just fly, fly away
    And I always knew I couldn't stay
    So I had a dream that I'd just fly away, away, oh
    Oh-oh, woah (fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away)

    Woah, woah, woah (fy away, fly away, fly away)
    I'd fly away

    Source: Musixmatch
    Songwriters: Toni Watson
    Fly Away lyrics © Almo Music Corp., Sailandra Publishing, Tones And I Pty Ltd

    Monday, June 14, 2021

    #MusicMonday - ALX

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to ALX featuring unique video edits that create an interesting music storyline that is well paced, balanced, and catchy!

    Check out the videos for Right Guy and Crash:


    Monday, February 22, 2021

    #MusicMonday - Born I

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to Born I who introduces Trap Music for Meditators with "In This Moment", a song with fast paced lyrics and a calming background layer of sounds that will make you want to listen a few times to hear how all of the different elements come together. "take a breath. say something kind to yourself." Enjoy watching, listening, and dancing along!

    Monday, September 24, 2018

    #MusicMonday - "Sail Up The Sun" by Dylan Owen

    #MusicMonday this week is dedicated to "Sail Up The Sun" by Dylan Owen. This song is well written musically with impressively vulnerable lyrics that are definitely worth reading along while you listen. Click here to see what inspired this song and to read the lyrics.


    Monday, April 23, 2018

    #MusicMonday - "Boot Scootin' Boogie" by Brooks and Dunn

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to "Boot Scootin' Boogie" by Brooks and Dunn. This song is a lot of fun to sing, dance and have an all around good time to! Enjoy! :)

    SUPPORT THE
    BOOT SCOOTIN'
    BOOGIE!

    Monday, January 22, 2018

    #MusicMonday - "Luck" and "Home" by American Authors

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to "Luck" and "Home" by American Authors. These songs have heartfelt lyrics, along with the rest of the songs on their "Oh, What A Life" album. This band has done a great job executing a well produced record that is genuine, catchy and musically robust. Give it a listen, the entire thing, or any song on their album and ride the wave of their musicianship. It's fun and if you enjoy it, you can hit repeat again and again!


    How can we make amends when we said all we said?
    I call and you don't pick up
    How can I say instead that I hope it's for the best?
    I won't, and I won't give up
    I'm sorry, Mother
    I know I let you down
    I'm sorry for how I up and left this town
    How can we push aside all the bad and make it right
    Now you got me all choked up
    I'm sorry, brother
    I know I let you down
    I'm sorry for how I up and left this town
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck
    How can we both pick sides when we know nothing's right?
    Open up the door that's shut
    How can I have my pride and drink away my soul tonight?
    Sorrow's filling up my cup
    I'm sorry, father
    I know I let you down
    I'm sorry for how I up and left this town
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck
    Well some birds aren't meant to be caged
    And I just can't see the light of day
    Please forgive me I can't remember
    Please forgive me, no one is calling
    Please forgive me, I can't believe it
    No
    Gonna pick myself up, so I don't let this ever grow
    Even if I mess up, I won't let this ever go
    It's hard to stay
    It's hard to stay
    'Cause some birds aren't meant to be caged
    How can I set us free?
    I'm what you taught me to be
    Shouldn't that be enough?
    It's time that we make amends
    Let's forget the things we said
    You know we were all just stuck
    I'm sorry, mother
    I know I let you down
    I'm sorry, father
    I didn't stick around
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    Just like my old man, I make my own luck
    And some birds aren't meant to be caged
    And some just won't see the light of day
    Please forgive me I can't remember
    Please forgive me, no one is calling
    Please forgive me, I can't believe it
    No
    Gonna pick myself up, so I don't let this ever grow
    Even if I mess up, I won't let this ever go
    It's hard to stay
    It's hard to stay
    'Cause some birds aren't meant to be caged
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck
    Please just listen 'cause I don't ask for much
    I am my own man, I make my own luck


    I've got these letters tattooed on my arm
    That remind me each second of where I come from
    And the long hard road to get me back home

    Back to my mama who raised me up right
    And back to my lady, I held every night
    It's a long hard road trying to get home

    I'd been gone now for too long

    I'm not trying to stop a hurricane
    I'm not trying to shake the ground below
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home

    I'm not trying to part the ocean waves
    I'm not trying to overthrow the throne
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home
    I'm just trying to get home

    I've got this image engraved in my mind
    Of a life that I had in a whole different time
    It still breathes and lives at the end of the road

    I've seen mountains and valleys through my missing days
    But I never once parted with how you begged me to stay
    I will run down that long hard and treacherous road to get home

    I'm not trying to stop a hurricane
    I'm not trying to shake the ground below
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home

    I'm not trying to part the ocean waves
    I'm not trying to overthrow the throne
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home
    I'm just trying to get home

    I've been gone for so long
    But my heart it carries on
    As it pounds like a drum
    On my journey back home

    I've been gone for so long
    But my heart it carries on
    I won't give up

    I'm not trying to stop a hurricane
    I'm not trying to shake the ground below
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home

    I'm not trying to part the ocean waves
    I'm not trying to overthrow the throne
    I'm just trying to find a way to make it back home
    I'm just trying to get home

    I'm just trying to get home

    Monday, January 8, 2018

    #MusicMonday - "Round And Round" by RATT

    #MusicMonday is dedicated to "Round And Round" by RATT. This song was a huge hit and is still always fun to listen and play along to. Special shout out to Marcus! 


    Thursday, October 13, 2016

    #ThankfulThursday - Edition #9: Shannon Smoot

    #ThankfulThursday: Giving thanks for the past, present and future in a  series of weekly shout outs to those who have and continue to support VoliteINC.

    DISCLAIMER: These #ThankfulThursday posts are in no way, shape or form ranked or prioritized, so if you're not featured here right away, that doesn't mean that you're not important. I've got a lot of gratitude to give, so please stay patient and your time to shine will come :) If there's something special you'd like to say about VoliteINC and/or if you'd specifically like to be featured, please let me know! 


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    #ThankfulThursday - Edition #9: Shannon Smoot


    Thankful Thursday this week is dedicated to Shannon Smoot, my ride or die best friend. We met back when we were super young at the beginning of our AYSO soccer days when her Dad was our coach. We've gone to elementary, middle and high school together experiencing the many ups and downs of life together. Shannon has always been by my side and we have often joked about "being in same boat" because we are so much alike and tend to face the same challenges and reality checks in life at the same time. She is a true inspiration to me and a friend who I genuinely trust and respect. Shannon is someone who I look up to as a role model and someone who has taught me so much about myself and about life through our endless conversations that contemplate the many complexities of life. She always strives to do more and be more so that she can walk her talk and truly be the change she wants to see in the world. I am so grateful to call her my friend and to have someone that I know I can always count on. 


    Shannon -- Thank you for always being there for me, for truly listening, for giving honest feedback and for always understanding!