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The picture above is the full picture from which the E2TG logo/avatar was taken. Some background, the original was created/inspired by a novel I was/am trying to write. It is meant to be the self-portrait of one of the main characters named Kevin. I used colored pencils and did layers using color photocopies to created the finished work. Twelve years ago, I scanned and uploaded the picture to my Facebook account. At some point, I set the cropped version as my profile picture on my personal Facebook account. When I created E2TG - originally on a now defunct site called Posterous, I needed an avatar/profile pic, so I chose the one I had been using on Facebook, and I guess the rest his history. As for the novel, I have been making progress over the years, but it is by far the longest thing I have ever attempted, and it has proven to be a bear to get handle on - in terms of editing. Plus, if I am being honest, although the plot is entirely fictional, many of the emotions are quite personal - which has also proven a challenge. But, I am pressing on...
Today, we feature songs 19-23 from this week's Playlist.
19. "Driving Me Insane" by Tom Tikka & The Missing Hubcaps
First up today, we have a track from the new EP from Finnish singer-songwriter Tom Tikka formerly of the band Carmen Gray and more recently of The Impersonators - who are on a six-month hiatus. The release is a follow-up to his debut solo EP -released earlier this year.
20. "The MiSFIT" by Erin Coburn
Next up, we have the new single from Kentucky-based rock singer-songwriter and guitar phenom Erin Coburn. It is a song for all who never quite seem to fit in.
21. "Savages" by DALMAS Emmanuel
Next up, we have a track from this hip-hop rapper and composer from the south west part of France. The song hits hard.
22. "If I'd Never Let Go" by Joshua
Next up, we have a single from this 15 year old singer from Ireland who has been competing on The Voice Kids UK. It is a pretty sweet pop song.
23. "The Godfather" by Are We Static
We close with a nifty bit of indie music from England from the upcoming LP Accepting the Universe. A nice ending to this segment of music which has been especially diverse, I think.
Tomorrow, we wrap up this week's playlist as we prepare the way for next week's list.
Featured Friday Playlist
Wednesday Morning Shuffle
"Sunday" by Jerry Castle (from Not So Soft Landing...)
First up, in today's shuffle, we have this Nashville-based singer-songwriter with a track from his 2016 album.
"Where's Your Boyfriend At" by The Yahoos (from Put the Hammer Down)
Next up, we go back to 2007 with this track from roots rock supergroup The Yayhoos - the band features Dan Baird, Eric Ambel, Keith Christopher, and Terry Anderson. It is the kind of kick ass rock and roll music you would expect from such a fine pedigree.
"Amazing Grace" by Starlight Gospel Singers (from Amazing Grace)
From a compilation of different versions of "Amazing Grace" which was released by Music Makers Relief Foundation earlier this year.
"Desert Rain" by Andrea Stray (from Vacancy)
I love seeing what the random shuffle will pull up out of nearly 5,000 songs saved to my phone's memory card. Like when, it pulls up songs from this 2011 release two days in a row! A great reminder of what a fine songwriter Andrea Stray is...
"Rag Mama Rag" by Mark Hummel (from Wayback Machine)
And, we close out today's shuffle with a cover of a 1936 Blind Boy Fuller song by modern blues legend Mark Hummel. Here he gives piano player Aaron Hammerman the lead vocals. The album was released earlier this year.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
8/13 - The Blam Blams - "Opening Night" (single)
8/14 - Michael McArthur - How to Fall in Love (EP)
8/14 - Sylvie Simmons - Blue on Blue (LP)
8/14 - Mark W. Georgsson - Comes a Time (EP)
8/14 - Skylar Gregg - Roses (LP)
LAST WEEK
8/03 - PXPRS - "Coup de grâce" (single)
8/07 - The Furious Seasons - La Fonda (LP)
8/07 - Kevin Gordon - Down To The Well: Solo Demos Unearthed (LP)
8/07 - Jason Molina - Eight Gates (LP)
8/07 - Steven Bruce - Same Time, Same Place, Same Station (LP)\
8/07 - Laura Donohue - "Muse" (single)
8/07 - The Flat Five - "Drip a Drop" (single)
8/07 - Jason Erie - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (single)
8/07 - Ci Gofod - "Dyfodol (feat. Lloyd Bastian of ‘Pseudo Cool’)" (single)
8/07 - Vincent Cross - The Life & Times of James ‘The Rooster’ Corcoran (LP)
8/07 - Nelss - "In the Unknown" (single)
8/07 - Jonny Polonsky - "You Turn Me On (Jim Sclavunos Remix)" (single)
8/07 - Joshua - "If I'd Never Let Go" (single)
8/07 - Polymer - "King of Suburbia" (single)
8/07 - Carrus & Kurtz - The Genius of..., Vol. 4: The Humanity of Humility (LP)
8/07 - Phillip La Rosa - "Baggage" (single)
NEXT WEEK
8/21 - Eric Bolander - "Window" (single)
8/21 - A Shoreline Dream - The Melting (LP)
8/21 - Liar,Flower - Geiger Counter (LP)
8/21 - Xanthe Alexis - The Offering (LP)
8/21 - Reardon Love - "Locked in the Panopticon" (single)
8/21 - Ghostwood Development Project - "Almost Human" (single)
8/21 - The Sea At Midnight - "We Share the Same Stars" (single)
8/21 - Buckle Bunny - "Lizard Brain" (single)
8/21 - Benchmarks - Summer, Slowly (LP)
UPCOMING
8/28 - The Northern Belle - We Wither, We Bloom (LP)
8/28 - Special Moves - Little Help (LP)
8/28 - Debbie Lagrange - "La chanson des moustiques" (single)
8/28 - Molly Tuttle - ...but I'd rather be with you (LP)
8/28 - Caterpillar - Where Shadows Go to Speak (LP)
8/28 - The Agency - "Defender" (single)
8/28 - Dianne Davidson - Full Circle (LP)
8/28 - Raveis Kole - "Angel from Montgomery" (single)
8/28 - The Blam Blams - Opening Night (LP)
8/31 - Andre Salvador & the Von Kings - Last Night From Glasgow (LP)
9/04 - India Ramey - Shallow Graves (LP)
9/04 - The Star Prairie Project - "Frantic Mind" (single)
9/04 - Jabbawoki - Something's Cookin' (EP)
9/04 - Dirk Powell - When I Wait for You (LP)
9/11 - Mike Barnett - +1 (LP)
9/11 - Atta Boy - Big Heart Manners (LP)
9/11 - Johnny Thunders - Que Sera Sera: Resurrected (Boxset)
9/18 - The Pull of Autumn - Small Colors (LP)
9/25 - Buildings and Food - Up Down Strange Charm (LP)
9/25 - Music Maker Relief Foundation - Hanging Tree Guitars (LP)
9/25 - Andrew Grimm - A Little Heat (LP)
9/25 - Cayucas - Blue Summer (LP)
10/02 - Buckle Bunny - Pet Speak (LP)
10/02 - The Jensen Sisters - Yellow Frames (LP)
10/09 - Year of October - Wastelands (LP)
10/09 - Great Peacock - Forever Worse Better (LP)
10/09 - Zao - Preface: Early Recordings 1995-1996 (LP)
10/09 - Zao - All Else Failed: 25th Anniversary Edition (LP)
10/16 - Malin Pettersen - Wildhorse (LP)
10/23 - The Agency - In the Haunted Woods (LP)
10/23 - Lera Lynn - On My Own (LP)
11/13 - The Flat Five - Another World (LP)
RECENT
7/01 - Pussycat Doghouse - Bananas (LP)
7/01 - Monsieur Minimal - "Easteria" single
7/01 - Shatterglass - Sick (EP)
7/01 - Inhaler Collective - Hunger (LP)
7/01 - Red's Blues - Broke Down in the Fast Lane (LP)
7/02 - Telepathic Teddy Bear - "Turning Back the Pages (single)
7/03 - The Vignatis - Red, White & Blue - Gypsybilly Vol. 4 (LP)
7/03 - Nicole Boggs and the Reel - None of Your Business (EP)
7/03 - Paul Nelson - Birmingham Woman (LP)
7/03 - Matthew Frederick - "Laura Jones" (single)
7/03 - Year of October - "Black Widow" (single)
7/03 - Michael McArthur - Oh, Sedona (EP)
7/03 - Petter Carlsen - "Contradictions" (single)
7/03 - Divine Horsemen - "Mystery Writers" (single)
7/03 - Mayflower Madame - "Sacred Core" (single)
7/03 - Andrew Adkins - One Evening In Brooklyn: Live! (EP)
7/03 - Angela Easterling - "Home" (single)
7/03 - Felixity - Love Sick Remixed (LP)
7/03 - Eduardo - "Sunrise" (single)
7/03 - SB SurfsUp - "My Lil Chick on the West Coast" (single)
7/04 - Jackson Capps - "Yesterday's Makeup" (single)
7/04 - gLife - Master of Flow (EP)
7/04- Learn to Fly - "Cherished Ruins" (single)
7/04 - Sluka - "Vampire's Ball" (single)
7/06 - R.E. Seraphin - Tiny Shapes (LP)
7/07 - Afton Wolfe - Petronius' Last Meal (EP)
7/07 - Abigail Fierce - "Girl in the Mirror (single)
7/08 - Short-Haired Domestic - "A Song in Latin..." (single)
7/08 - Lobelia - Positive Songs Project - Phase 2 (EP)
7/09 - Black Needle Noise - "She Talks to Angels" (single)
7/10 - Hurricane Ruth - Good Life (LP)
7/10 - Fintan McKahey - "Platinum" (single)
7/10 - Nocona - Los Dos (LP)
7/10 - Easy Love - Wander Feeler (LP)
7/10 - Bob Nanna - Celebration States (LP)
7/10 - Ten Penny Gypsy - Fugitive Heart (LP)
7/10 - Andy Baker - North Country Sky (LP)
7/10 - Static X - Project Regeneration Vol. 1 (LP)
7/10 - Black Paisley - "Need Some Soul" (single)
7/10 - Raz & Alfa - "Secrets & Lies" (single)
7/10 - The Spiritual Leaders - Underwater with You (EP)
7/10 - Jah Cure - "Rock the Boat" (single)
7/10 - NineteenHateHate - "TopBoy" (single)
7/10 - Blaktrix - "€5 Euro Shades" (single)
7/11 -Rev. J. Mikhael Smith and the Brimstone Miracle - "10:18" (single)
7/11 - Civic Green - "There is Always a Light" (single)
7/13 - Ekat Bork - "Driving My Mustang" (single)
7/14 - Anita Romana - "All Tomorrows" (single)
7/17 - The Bobby Lees - Skin Suit (LP)
7/17 - Soft Set - "Never Die" (single)
7/17 - Michot's Melody Makers - Cosmic Cajuns from Saturn (LP)
7/17 - Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards - Bitter Better (LP)
7/17 - Graham Bramblett - The Great Inbetween (LP)
7/17 - ElJay - Champion (EP)
7/17 - Sienne - "Side by Side" (single)
7/17 - elkyn - beech (EP)
7/17 - The Allergies - Say the Word (LP)
7/17 - LadyCouch - "Heartache" (single)
7/17 - KEYS - "This Side of Luv" (single)
7/17 - Bearcraft - "Outside in the Morning Snow" (single)
7/17 - Abby Reign - "Roll the Dice" (single)
7/17 - David Ramirez - "My Love if Like a Hurricane" (LP)
7/17 - ASM - "Return of the Sabretooth" (single)
7/17 - The Jensen Sisters - "Beat of a Bad Habit" (single)
7/17 - Above Snakes - "Adrenaline" (single)
7/18 - Union Kain - Black Dawn (EP)
7/20 - Provision - Hearts Turn Dark (LP)
7/20 - Scott Holstein - "Hillbilly Love" (single)
7/20 - DALMAS Emmanuel - "Savages" (single)
7/22 - The City Gates - "Siegfried 1969" (single)
7/23 - Other Child - Good Boy Charlie (EP)
7/24 - Tawny Ellis - Love Life (LP)
7/24 - Lee Gallagher - L.A. Yesterday (LP)
7/24 - Even As We Speak - Adelphi (LP)
7/24 - The Wild Blue - Anonymous Future (EP)
7/24 - The Danberrys - Shine (LP)
7/24 - Ted Russell Kamp - Down in the Den (LP)
7/24 - A Shoreline Dream - "Seek to Hide" (single)
7/24 - Rev. J. Mikhael Smith and the Brimstone Miracle - Dogwood Winter (EP)
7/24 - Seela - Cool (LP)
7/24 - Nick Faber- The Lost Highway Tapes (LP)
7/24 - Vexillary - SurViolence (EP)
7/24 - Certain Animals - "Too Long" (single)
7/24 - The Asteroid No.4 - "Swiss Mountain Myth" (single)
7/24 - Breichiau Hir - "Preseb O Ias" (single)
7/24 - rOZZ - Yess Sire! (LP)
7/24 - Kyle Maher - "Better" (single)
7/24 - Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (LP)
7/24 - Pozzi - "From the Ashes" (single)
7/24 - Erin Coburn - "The Misfit" (single)
7/24 - Are We Static - "The Godfather" (single)
7/24 - Betwixt - The Salty Tang - reissue (LP)
7/27 - Beauty in Chaos - "Stranger" (single)
7/27 - The Funhouse Collective - "Twilight Zone" (single)
7/28 - Caterpillar - "Tangents" (single)
7/29 - Drumagick - "A Feel"/"Cosmic Live" (single)
7/29 - I LIKE TRAINS - "Steady Hand" (single)
7/29 - Okey Dokey - "The Right Fit" (single)
7/29 - Cayucas - "Lonely Without You" (single)
7/29 - Smile - "Time to Run" (single)
7/31 - The Jason Daniels Band - Downloads from the Universe (LP)
7/31 - Shishi - Mafitishei (LP)
7/31 - Vee VV - "Ugly Freedom (Toka Remix)" (single)
7/31 - Adrift - "Our Moment" (single)
7/31 - Max Helgemo - "Uncovered" (single)
7/31 - Sunny Gable - Little Things (EP)
7/31 - The Kondoors - "Mr. Rain" (single)
7/31 - Gim Kordon - "Joskus mä pelkään (Sometime’s I Fear)" (single)
7/31 - Tom Tikka & The Missing Hubcaps - Insane (LP)
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