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First off, I wanted to give out a show alert for tonight. The late show at The 5 Spot in East Nashville will feature a CD Release show by Erica Blinn for her new album Better Than Gold. You may recall, we premiered her song, "Dance with the One (Who Brought You Here)" last September.
Closing the night will be another local favorites, Andrew Leahey and the Homestead.
Opening the show will be Memphis based and Fat Possum recording artist Liz Brasher - who I read is making her Nashville debut. I may be wrong about that. Here's some information about Liz Brasher - NPR says, "Good-God-Hallelujah... Brasher shouts, rocks, rolls, and tears it up on stage; her music will dig down deep to touch your soul." A Memphian of Dominican descent who grew up singing in Spanish in the church, Brasher synthesizes the sounds of of '60s garage, girl group sounds, dirty blues, holy roller church music, and Bob Dylan into something completely her own. And below is a video for her song "Body of Mine"
Should be a great night of music.
Today is Wednesday so let's get "Wild" and shuffle from all the songs on my phone memory.
I'm am just a bit rushed, so bear with me...
"Mister" by Chris Carroll
We start things off with a song from the 2014 album Trouble and Time from Canadian born, Texas singer-songwriter Chris Carroll. Carroll is the wife and frequent musical partner of Adam Carroll - whose music we have been featuring quite a bit recently. A great to start my rainy commute."Don't Show the Devil" by Ali Holder
The random shuffle does one of it's tricks and brings up another Texas singer-songwriter. This is a track from Holder's 2015 release From My Veins Will Fall. Close readers of E2TG may recall that we wrote about Ali Holder in the early days of this blog - when she recorded some music with Raindogg. She was in town recently, and I am bummed that I wasn't able to get to her show.
"God Bless the Child" by Billie Holiday
Next up, we have a 1942 single from the great Billie Holiday - which she wrote with Arthur Herzog. The song was later covered by Aretha Franklin (and many others).
"Marathon Car" by Richie Owens and the Farm Bureau
Next up, one of my favorite songs from Tennessee by local favorites Richie Owens and the Farm Bureau. Lately Owens has been making music with his new band Smokey White Devils (who will be appearing Saturday at Little Harpeth Brewing) while still doing the occasional show with the Farm Bureau. This song is about the Marathon car company which made cars in Nashville many years ago where Marathon Village is now located.
"Little Blue Room" by Tomas Doncker Band
Next up, a track from the incredible Big Apple Apple Blues featuring E2TG favorite Tomas Doncker Band along with the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. It is a beautiful and powerful tribute to New York City.
"What I'm Saying" by Amilia K. Spicer
Next, we have a track from Wow and Flutter from L.A. singer-songwriter Amilia K. Spicer. I have been digging this album for a while now, and it was great to hear it come up again. It seems weird because of their similar names, but Spicer's music brings to mind Nashville's own Amelia White. Just something in the tone of the vocals or something.
"Papercuts" by Cellarscape
Another album we featured heavily last year, returns to the shuffle. Cellarscape in the recording project of Paul Terry. The album is called Exo Echo. This is very rich and full music, and I like the songs very much."Bob the Bob" by The Lounge Lizards
Next up, we have the opening track from the 1988 album Voice of Chunk by New York avant guard jazz/no wave band The Lounge Lizard. Features John and Evan Lurie and guitarist Marc Ribot.
"American Bigfoot" by Fangs and Twang
And we close things out with a great song from the self-title debut EP by Michigan based Fangs and Twang. This band writes great, humorous songs about various and sundry monsters.
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