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We move on into the second half of 2019. It is Monday and so we celebrate the music of Nashville with our weekly Music City Monday Shuffle. Music from Nashville, from people who now live in Nashville (even if they lived somewhere else when the music was made), and people who used to live in Nashville. It is Music City Monday if I say it is!
"Just Out of Reach" by The Smoking Flowers
Kim and Scott Collins - aka The Smoking Flowers just released their latest album Snowball Out of Hell on June 21. This was one of the songs released ahead of the album - which you can now get on the album. One of my favorite local bands.
"Mother Truth" (Live at CBGB's) by Clockhammer
From Reverend Keith Gordon's lost liner notes to the Return to Elliston Square 1979-1989 album (from which this track comes), "Clockhammer made fans and won critical acclaim everywhere but at home." - appropriate then that their entry on this Nashville compilation was recorded live in New York City at the legendary CBGB's. Their drummer Ken Coomer would go on to be the last drummer in Uncle Tupelo and the first drummer in Wilco. He mostly wear's the producers hat these days, but he can occasionally be seen drummer around town. I saw a reformed and revamped lineup of Clockhammer opening for fIREHOSE and Soul Asylum back in early 1990s.
"Life by the Gun" by Chris Watts
Next up, we have a track from The God's Own Truth by one of my favorite local writers. Chris Watts is part of that (pretty incredible) group of Louisiana musicians who call Nashville home now. His story includes being shot at the Superdome while in the National Guard during Hurricane Katrina. Life by the Gun indeed.
"Restless" by Julie Christensen and Stone Cupid
Falling the category of music made elsewhere before... we have a track from Weeds Like Us - which I believe was the last Julie Christensen album released before she moved to Nashville. I ran into Julie over the weekend. Of late, she has done some work with The Flesheaters (the legendary L.A. band formed by her ex-husband Chris D. and she is working on a Leonard Cohen tribute to be held at Tennessee Brew Works later this year.
"Decked Out Like the Devil" by Tom Mason
Next up, the album that gave the name to Tom Mason's merry band of pirate - Blue Buccaneers. As I have said before, and I will say again. Tom Mason is a gifted songwriter and a great guitarist. Even if you've never had a desire to see a pirate band, you should see this band if you get the chance. This album was billed as a Tom Mason solo album and it MAY be his first recorded foray into the briny deep - but I'm not sure.
"Song YW" by Jon Worthy and the Bends
Next up, we have some brand spanking new music from an E2TG favorite Jon Worthy and his band The Bends. In the always arrive for the opening band category, I first saw Jon Worthy (solo) when he played on a bill with a bunch of people I knew. I dug his songs, and in the years since, he has only gotten better and what he's got going on with his band is something else entirely. I got to catch part of their set at Dee's a few weeks (months?) back, and both me and my rock and roll loving daughter loved it. The new album is called Something's Gotta Give. It was just released Friday. Check it out!
"Lucy Mae Blues" by Webb Wilder
Next up, we have a track from Webb Wilder's Mississippi Moderne album. I have been a fan of Webb Wilder for over 30 years, and he is still making great music. "Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em!, the Webb Wilder credo"
"New Mexico" by Joseph Robert Krauss
E2TG is the kind of music blog that you only play twice....once on the way up and once on the way down. Welcome back Joseph Robert Krauss. Krauss lived in Nashville for several years and recently relocated to Colorado or somewhere like that. He has been released new music with some frequency this year. This is an excellent song that he released early in 2019.
"Blues As Blues Can Get" by Tim Krekel
The late Tim Krekel was an important part of the Nashville music community for many years. He fronted a rock and called The Sluggers (who I saw open for Jason and the Scorchers with The Movement back in 1985) and as a songwriter. This is his own version of a song he wrote with J. Fred Knobloch and which was recorded by Delbert McClinton on his 1992 album Never Been Rocked Enough. Krekel's version is from his 2006 album World Keeps Turnin'. Tim Krekel passed away in 2009 at the age of 58.
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