The “Light and Lively” CD, “Ride! Stop the Rage” CD, “The Spirit of God” CD and most compositions by Charles Barnes have many usages. Its family friendly lyrics and themes allow your listener’s comfort by having positive music free from foul language and filled with positive thoughts, situations, and questions. Its easy listening inspirational sounds, allows parents to use it as a lullaby for your infants, background music to keep children calm, and as an atmosphere for reading books, doing homework, and meditation. Insert the “Ride… Stop the Rage” CD and allow the smooth trumpet by Charles to set an atmosphere to do your yoga and physical exercise. With calming music as the background, your body will experience muscle increase and mind relaxation at the same time. With a relaxed mind, positive innovative thoughts will be stimulated. After a stressful encounter with your boss or during the rush hour bumper-to-bumper traffic, allow Charles to blow your troubles away by setting an easy no problem ride atmosphere. Get in a rush and have to have dinner ready immediately, or find you have a banquet menu past due, put in the CD and cook like a professional. Make fewer mistakes when you add your ingredients to prepare your meal. Make the food taste better because it was cooked with love, instead of rush. Allow you efforts to be given with peace and joy by listening and using the music to better your life. Its family friendly lyrics, uses positive words to make complete sentences. Though some of the songs use contractions and other songs use a little slang, all of the music speaks positive about people. There is no degrading of anyone. The music simply gives hope to society by sharing how life should be filled with positive interactions and encounters. The music may even motivate the listener to look into their own life and start making decisions to bring their family closer together. Expect to be mesmerized and inspired in a calming melodic atmosphere. Select any of the three CDs and see yourself in a new light. Have the quality of your life move in a positive direction. All of the CDs can be downloaded from digstation.com and cdbaby.com. However, visit youtube.com, put “barnes8711” in the search engine, and see the music video created by Charles and his band students for the songs on the “Spirit of God" CD. All other CDs can be gotten by writing Charles at “barnes8711@yahoo.com.