 It's time for Mountain Music, presented by Mountain Music Exchange, the heart of music in the mountains. Welcome to another edition of Mountain Music, we're back down at Mountain Music Exchange where we run into a good old boy from Preston's Burg named Brandon West, check him out. The common thread that runs through these mountains are the early musical influences coming from family and church. That thread holds true for Brandon as well. Growing up I was raised in church so I always remembered like going to church, my whole family's musical, everyone I'm can sing, they can play guitar, piano, whatever and I guess I just inherited some of that and it wasn't until probably six years ago when I learned how to play the guitar and started writing my own music and I went from there, you know, music, I've always listened to music, I've always, it's always been a big, big part of my life and but now I get to make my own music. Not very often does someone completely turn their life around when they need to but when someone does not only does it make for an inspirational story but also a great song. The name of that song is called I've Been There, I wrote it a little over two years ago and I was actually in a treatment facility and when I wrote it I'm a recovering addict and that song basically just talks about where I've been with my addiction. For the longest time I always felt like I was alone, like nobody else could know what I'm going through, nobody else could know the pain or anything that was going on inside of me and I found a 12 step fellowship where people can relate with me and I don't have to be alone again, people understand where I've been and where I've come from and they understand the everyday struggle with addiction.