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Happy Monday! It is another week and another month here at E2TG. I hope you will check out and follow our Featured Friday Playlist. A new list will be up every Friday. Thank you to everyone who has followed us so far.
I am excited to announce that I will have something exciting to announce very soon. It involves me and Nashville music, and that is all I am liberty to disclose at this time. Was that vague enough? Nevertheless, it is exciting.
Quiet weekend, but I managed to see some world-class music. Tim Carroll, Fats Kaplin and Kristi Rose and the gang, and Mike Cullison and the Lucky Dogs.
I've been getting some computer stuff set up at home so I have been slow to get new content posted, but it will come.
Let's see. Daniel Seymour and Mark Robinson are hosting Madison Guild Monday at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge tonight. Their guests include E2TG favorite Tiffany Huggins Grant. Should be a nice Monday hang with great music.
Featured Friday Playlist
Music City Monday Shuffle
This Music City Monday shuffles are always fun. Usually a great mix of Nashville music from a variety of eras in a variety of genres and styles. Almost always some good friends thrown into the mix."Arizona Fire" by Becca Mancari (from Good Woman)
"Jupitar II - Reprise" by Media Pig (from One)
If you hang around E2TG long enough, you know that I have an odd affinity for crazy instrumentals and experimental music. As much as I love a good "Song", this kind of music holds a place in my heart. This particular music comes from the insanely and multi-talented Chris Tench - who I think I first met via Julie Christensen.
"Working the Long Game" by Bill Lloyd (from Working the Long Game)
Any discussion of Nashville music of the last *mumble* years that doesn't include Bill Lloyd is incomplete. I saw that he is considering a reissue of his classic debut album, Feeling the Elephant. That one is essential listening, but honestly, he hasn't made a bad album.
"Song for Nelson" by sElf (from The Half-Baked Serenade)
Nashville's independent music scene has tended to ebb and flow. We are definitely on the upswing now, but by the early 90s, things had slowed down from the mid-late 80s boom days. Almost simultaneously, BR549 and others were lighting up Broadway with their honky-tonk sounds and bands like Kurt Wagner's Lambchop and Matt Mahaffey's sElf (who formed in Murfreesboro) were jump-starting the indie rock scene. This is from their second album.
"I'm in the Doldrums" by Jim Hoke (from The Floating Zone)
"Mike and Betty Jo" by Joseph Bradshaw (from On Record)
"The Price of Progress" by Jason Ringenberg (from Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007)
"Lost Cause" by Idle Bloom (from Little Deaths)
"Fixer" by Adrian + Meredith (from More Than a Little)
aka The Meredith Band (feat. Adrian) :-) Seriously, among the best and most talented people I know.
"Miss You, Honey" by Great Peacock (from Gran Pavo Real)
"'You' Are the Problem" by Ron Gallo (from Stardust Birthday Party)
VIDEO PLAYLIST
Recent and Upcoming Releases:
Recent:
11/20 Brock Zeman - Hey Tom (a collection of Tom House Songs) (LP) (E2TG First Impression)
12/1 - Inkraktare - We Are Not Really Here (LP)
12/2 - Terry Klein - Live at KOOP (LP)
12/6 - Beauty in Chaos; Wayne Hussey (The Mission) - "The Delicate Balance of All Things" (single)
12/6 - Beat Hotel - "Feel It" (single)
12/29 - Them Jones - "The Woman is a Poor Child" (single)
12/31 - Blackfoot Gypsies - Live at The Basement (LP)
1/06 - Francesco Mariano - "Room 107" (single)
1/08 - Luis Mojica- Shaman Food (LP)
1/10 - Palm Ghosts - "Wide Awake and Waiting" (single) (E2TG First Impression)
1/10 - Mary Bragg and Drivin' N Cryin' - "Don't Walk Away" (cover) (single)
1/10 - Them Airs - "Food Pyramid" (single)
1/10 - Lilly Hiatt - "Brightest Star" (single)
1/10 - Strange Majik - "Lo-Fi Hi" (single) (E2TG First Impression)
1/10 - Dean Fields - "Armadillo" (single)
1/10- Chicago Farmer - "All in One Place" (single)
1/10 - Surrija - "Nothing Love" (single)
1/10 - RB Morris - Going Back to the Sky (LP)
1/10 - Guided By Voices - "Volcano" (single)
1/10 - Sunshine Boys - "Infinity Girl" (single)
1/11 - Dolour (Shane Tutmarc) - "The Snake Eye" (single)
1/12 - Francesco Mariano - "Nine Lives" (single)
1/13 - Lauren Anderson - "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" (cover) (single)
1/14 - Drive-By Truckers - "Thoughts and Prayers" (single)
1/16 - Margo Price - Stone Me (single)
1/17 - Mark Hummel - Wayback Machine (LP)
1/17 - Jonny Polonsky - "The Weeping Souls" (single)
1/17 - Them Airs - Union Suit XL (LP) (E2TG First Impression)
1/17 - Innocence Mission - See You Tomorrow (LP)
1/17 - David Dondero - The Filter Bubble Blues (LP)
1/17 - MONO INC. - "Warriors" (single)
1/17 - Damen - "Americana" (single)
1/19 - Merrill Beach - "Geen"/"Marimba" (single) (E2TG First Impression)
1/21 - Broads and Milly Hirst - "Happisburgh" (single)
1/22 - Davis Raines - Turquoise and Silver (LP) (E2TG First Impression)
1/24 - Kailey Nicole - Kailey Nicole (LP)
1/24 - Mrs. Henry - Live at the Casbah (LP)
1/24 - Aeronautical Pioneer - "Hop High" (single)
1/24 - Three Rivers Project - Confluence (LP)
1/24 - MONO INC. - The Book of Fire (LP)
1/24 - Dispel - Lore (LP)
1/24 - The New Nostalgia - "Nothing is New" (single)
1/24 - The Heliocentrics - "Burning Wooden Ship" (single)
1/24 - Electric High - "Harder to Justify" (single)
1/24 - J. Luke Cloutier - Drown (LP)
1/26 - Nik West - "Tears" (single)
1/28 - Motihari Brigade - Power from Below (LP)
1/31 - Eric Brace and Last Train Home - Daytime Highs and Overnight Lows (LP)
1/31 - Nick Pagliari - Midway (LP)
1/31 - Black Paisley - "Dreams" (single)
1/31 - Jolie Holland - Esconidida (Vinyl Reissue) (LP)
1/31 - John Dennis - Mortal Flames (LP) (E2TG First Impression)
1/31 - Emma Hill - How Could I Have Been So Wrong (EP)
1/31 - Ryan Sobb and the Dead Mall - Concrete Feelings (LP) (E2TG First Impression)
1/31 - Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten) + Danielle de Picciotto (Crime and The City Solution) - The Current (LP)
1/31 - Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling (LP)
1/31 - Kristen Englenz - "Rebound" (single)
1/31 - Damen - "Disco" (single)
1/31 - Tinsley Ellis - Ice Cream in Hell (LP)
2/01 - Glenn Jones - Ready for the Good Times (LP)
2/02 - Karabas Barabas - Degenerate National Anthem (LP)
Next Week:
2/07 - Palm Ghosts - Wide Awake and Waiting (EP)
2/07 - Emily Zuzik - "Trouble" (single)
2/07 - Chicago Farmer - Flyover Country (LP)
2/07 - Surrija - "Barcelona" (single)
2/07 - The Flyin' A's - No Holds Barred (LP)
2/07 - Harry Stafford - "She Just Blew Me Away" (single)
2/07 - Christopher Paul Stelling - Best of Luck (LP)
2/07 - HMS Morris - "Babanod" (single)
2/07 - Tiny Fighter- "Strangest Thing" (single)
2/07 - Wynnm - "Fire on the Moon" (single)
2/07 - The Golden Cage Society - Mira (Mini EP)
2/07 - Alienbaby Collective - "Degenerate Moon" (single)
Upcoming:
2/14 - Grant Peeples - Bad Wife (LP)
2/14 - The Heliocentrics - Infinity of Now (LP)
2/14 - Johanna Kuvaja - "Back for Good" (single)
2/14 - Sarah Reynolds - "I Need Love" (single)
2/16 - Kas Havoc - "Light'em Up" (single)
2/21 - Sarah Morris - All Mine (LP)
2/21 - Kindergarten - Iphigenia (Reissue) (LP)
2/21 - Hot Club of L.A.- Cinema Swing (LP)
2/21 - MUUK - Balbuceo (LP)
2/21 - Aaron Beckum - Songs from a Triangle Room (EP)
2/21 - Every 13 Days - Étant Donnés (Reissue) (LP)
2/21 - Seablight - High-Rise Mannequins (EP)
2/21 - Various Artists -Typical Girls Vol. 5 (LP)
2/21 - 12xPretty - 12xPretty (LP)
2/28 - Kristen Englenz - Ingenue (LP)
2/28 - Close Lobsters - Post Neo Anti... (LP)
2/28 - The Heliocentrics - Infinity of Now (LP)
3/?? - Strange Majik - 20/20 (LP)
3/06 - Surrija - "Sylvette" (single)\
3/06 - Dean Fields - While the Baby Was Sleeping (LP)
3/06 - Broads and Milly Hirst - Ollust (LP)
3/06 - The Mastersons - No Time for Love Songs (LP)
3/06 - Ghostwood Development Project (Feat. Kool Keith) - "Gulley" (single)
3/13 - The Flatmates - The Flatmates (LP)
3/13 - Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak (20th Anniversary Edition) + BLP (demos and out-takes) (LP)
3/13 - Sandwick - Reconstruct (LP)
3/20 - Matt Wilson and His Orchestra - When I Was a Writer (LP)
3/27 - Lilly Hiatt - Walking Proof (LP)
3/27 - Mayflower Madame - Prepared for a Nightmare (LP)
3/27 - Alienbaby Collective - F I S H B O W L / T E R R E S T R I A L (Double EP)
3/27 - Mairena - "Weird All the Time" (single)
4/03 - Surrija - Surrija (LP)
4/10 - Eliza Gilkyson - 2020 (LP)
4/17 - Paul Burch and WPA Ballclub - Light Sensitive (LP)
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