Brian Pounds has the voice of a young, hip Austin James Taylor. And, watching him perform, you get the feeling that he doesn't make the songs- -the songs make him. He's just the door for the stories. Brian Pounds at Gruene Hall opening for Bob Schneider He left college two semesters shy of graduation to surrender to music. Seeing him play live at the Saxon Pub, I can see why. It's just his thing- -music is his marrow. The gripping thing about watching him play is that he's so completely vulnerable. He takes the stage without ego. It's just him, his songs, his hat, and his guitar. He talks about waiting tables at the Olive Garden and the trials of trying to make it as a song writer. He talks about sending his work to a big deal Tennessee music dude just to be told it’s not what radio listeners want to hear, "It’s too long." Yet, like a true artist, he laughs it off and turns anger into a song. He sings "Missis