Ghosts of Rust, Dust & Love

🚨🔥 NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥🚨

Friends, I’ve been working on something special — a brand-new storytelling outlaw album, based on a short story I am writing. This isn’t just music, it’s a dark fantasy saga told through songs.

👉 Tracker – The Eternal Bounty Hunter
Music genres include: Dark Country · Outlaw Blues · Dark Americana · Gothic Rock · Dark Orchestra · Dark Ambient · Hard Rock, Dark Blues & Swamp Blues layered together for the music Album

Follow Tracker, a scarred outlaw bounty hunter cursed to hunt demons disguised as humans, roaming across time and space. He is more than he seems — able to see their true forms beneath the mask. He exposes there real identity's in every show down but they also see him... Every bounty is a chapter in his eternal battle between good and evil.

🎧 A true listening experience of storytelling songs.
🎶 Featuring 11 brand new songs + 1 short prologue.
📅 “Watch and Shoot” Dropping 27 Sept 2025 — Time TBC (MT, North America).

✍️ Written by Ghost of Rust, Dust & Love
🎼 Composed with the aid of AI tools

The Rider comes.

Drop a comment if anyone would like a mixed country rap song, something I may try my hand at writing. Cheers

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Ghosts of Rust, Dust & Love

🌾 Ghosts of Rust, Dust & Love — My Approach to Songwriting

Hello everyone,

I often get questions about my channel content, so here’s a little insight into how I create my songs. My work falls into a few main categories, which also shape my playlists:

Outlaw Open Road Songs – gritty tracks for the highway and the wild.

Heartfelt Songs – about life, love, and loss.

Fictional Songs – pure entertainment built from stories and imagination.

Songs of Real Meaning – deep, soulful pieces reflecting on humanity, society, values, morals, and today’s world. Unspoken Hero is one example of this type.

Most of my songs begin as short stories or raw ideas scribbled on paper or my tablet—what I call storytelling songs. This is why many of them run longer; they’re built from layered stories turned into lyrics. Inspiration strikes at the oddest times—like when Unspoken Hero came to me at three in the morning. When ideas arrive, I write them down immediately, good or bad, no matter what I’m doing. ( I pull over when driving lol)

A fair amount of my non-fictional songs come directly from real-life experiences. She Burns like home is a prime example of those songs and some what Unspoken Hero, as an example, my notes and ideas grew into nearly a 2,000-word document for that song before I refined it down into the final lyrics. That’s my process for about 80% of my music. The other 20%—especially the fictional dark country songs—are still story-based but take a little less time and effort to complete.

The time I spend on each song varies widely. Some take a few hours, others take weeks. The bigger projects—like the Unspoken Hero songs, the Grace on a Six String songs, and the Petals and Promises songs—collectively took me hundreds of hours of writing, editing, and composing.

It’s my belief that expression through stories, song lyrics, voice, and music can convey powerful emotions, feelings, and meaning that resonate with the human soul. One subscriber once told me: “I don’t speak English, but I can feel the words and love it.” That, to me, says it all. If someone connects with a song—regardless of the tools used to create it—then I’ve done what matters most.

As for AI music, I view it simply as a tool—no different than how drafting tables gave way to design software. It helps me bring my words to life with music, and I use it because I love writing songs and sharing them. Friends and family encouraged me to put them here on YouTube, and that’s why I’m here. Because I use AI tool's I have no plans to put my songs on popular music apps like Spotify for example. I indeed have the sole copy rights to my songs, considering I write them and I pay for the music to pair with my lyrics. There is indeed AI music on those popular music Apps/platforms and yes some real musicians do use AI/software to improve their music in this modern world but I just don't think its the place for AI generated music and should be for real music artists. If they had a clear category for AI produced music then maybe. Its debatable.

At the end of the day, you can choose to like it or hate it—that’s up to you. I’m not a musician, and I wish I had the talent to sing and play my own music, but I don’t. I fall on the writing side of song creation, and this is just a hobby I truly enjoy—nothing more, nothing less. I’m simply sharing my stories in song form, straight from inspiration to music. If you enjoy, connect and feel the lyrics with the music then that makes me happy and keeps me inspired to create more songs for you all to enjoy. Keep on rocking & Listening, music is food for the soul. And this damn world needs more soul & love these days.

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