E2TG 8/17/2020 - Music City Monday - Take a Boat Mix (Little Lion Remix)

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Another Monday on the the side of the looking glass or in the upside down or wherever it is we now reside. The nation is under attack from within and an entire political party is complicit either through their actions or inaction.  Not only that, but a sizable portion of the population is complicit either through ignorance or acceptance of this attack. Science is under attack, the rule of law is under attack, the constitution is under attack, and the election process is under attack - on several different fronts. 

We live in a very fractured and broken society. People are angry and yelling at each other in person and over social media, and honestly, I am not sure all that yelling is doing any good. This is not a statement about protests which is a different thing and historically effective in many cases. This is people yelling at other people and never stopping to listen. 

All too often, I make the mistake of reading the comment section of articles and posts, and they are always the same. Someone jumps in and makes a wild claim with no proof. People jump on that and demand proof of the statement.  The person who originally makes the claim - either states that they don't have to prove it or they ignore the request for proof or they post a sketchy YouTube clip or an out of date news article or an article from a sketchy, biased source, or they just start name-calling and soon people on both sides are name-calling.... 

I feel like a part of me dies when I read the comment section, but it is a bit like turning your head as you pass a car accident - you know you shouldn't, but well traffic is slowing and...

I vacillate between hope and despair. I am uncertain of the future when it comes to COVID-19 - but it seems like many people are just pretending it is all over, and to me we are just barely emerging from the first wave, and I fear the second wave will be worse and I am not sure that another shut-down will happen. 

Ah, but music - we have more from this week's Featured Friday Playlist and today's Music City Monday Shuffle.  

We continue our recap of our Featured Friday Playlist with Song numbers 6-9:

6. "Are We Having a Good Time Yet?" by Bikini Test Failure

We start of this segment of music with a new single from the Manchester band that is the recording project of James Hill. It is a newly re-multitracked, newly mixed, and newly mastered song from the first Bikini Test Failure album Another Day, Another Fat Pile of Cash which was released in 2004. I missed this band and this song the first time around, but I dig it. 

7. "Two Step de St. Anne" by Goldman Thibodeaux and the Lawtell Playboys

Next up, we have a track the first album in 13 years by pre-Zydeco legends Goldman Thibodeaux and the Lawtell Playboys. The album was recorded live at the Thibodeaux family reunion last year. The Lawtell Playboys formed in 1946. I could use more time to explore the shared roots of Cajun and Zydeco music in the very segregated Louisiana of the mid-twentieth century - suffice it to say this music speaks to a deep place in my Cajun soul. 

8. "Veronica" by Brandon Phillips & the Condition

Next up, we have a wonderful piano ballad from this Kansas City band that features members of several well-known Kansas City bands like The Architects and The Gadjits.  This is a great song.  

9. "Dose" by The Danbury Lie 

Our old friend, The Danbury Lie returns to the Playlist with another track from his new release, Mist. Man, I love hearing new music from Rob, and it has been so much fun to follow his musical and literal journey for much of the existence of E2TG. A great end to this segment of music.  

 

    Featured Friday Playlist

Music City Monday Shuffle 

"Take a Boat" (Live) by Adrian + Meredith (from Live at The 5 Spot)

I sound like a broken record, but I miss seeing live music at The 5 Spot and other venues. It is great to hear this track from a show recorded at the East Nashville bar featuring one of my favorite local bands. Can't wait to see them perform in person again - safely. 

"Part Time" by Peter Cooper (from Opening Day)

As a journalist and songwriter, Peter Cooper has made significant contributions to Nashville's music community for a long time. This is a track from his classic album Opening Day. 

"Little Lion" by Steve Rempis (Rock and Roll Over)

Another track from that benefit album featuring many E2TG Favorites singing about dogs and their dogs. The album is to raise awareness and money to support shelters and shelter dogs across the county. This track is about a might shih tzu - performed by rock singer-songwriter Steve Rempis who handles most of the lead vocals for Raygun. 

"Honey and Sugar" by Lori Kelley (from Under Stars and Storms)

Next up, we have long time E2TG favorite Lori Kelley with a track from her most recent album. 

"Take Me Downtown" by The Warner Hodges Band (from Just Fees Right)

We featured the title track last week in the Featured Friday playlist. Now, we have another track from the new Warner Hodges Band album. 

"Missing the Missing" by Andrew Leahey & the Homestead (single)

And we close this shuffle with one of several new singles released this year by Andrew Leahey and his band The Homestead. They are at the top of their game here. 

VIDEO PLAYLIST

NEW AND RECENT RELEASES

THIS WEEK

8/17 - KnightressM1 - "Lock and Key" (single)

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 - Parker Lee - "Drunk" (single)

8/21 - Pozzi - Tyrant (LP)

8/21 - The Hengles - "Fire in the Rain" (single)

8/21 - Julien Shah-Tayler (feat. MGT) - "Evolution" (single)

8/21 - Benchmarks - Summer, Slowly (LP)

LAST WEEK

8/11 - Brandon Phillips & The Condition - "Veronica" (single)
8/14 - R.B. Morris - Going Back to the Sky (LP)
8/14 - 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 - Soft Set - "Never Die"/"7 on Up" (single)
8/14 - Ivan Moult - "What More Could I Want"'/"Toxic" (single)
8/14 - Skylar Gregg - Roses (LP)

           NEXT WEEK

8/25 - Andrew Grimm - A Little Heat (LP)

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)

8/28 - ReMission International (Wayne Hussey) - "TOS2020" (single)

UPCOMING

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 - Parker Lee- Scrundle (LP)

9/04 - Andrew Adkins - "Vagabond Shoes" (single)

9/04 - Dirk Powell - When I Wait for You (LP)

9/04 - Annie Dressner - Coffee at the Corner Bar (LP)

9/11 - Mike Barnett - +1 (LP)

9/11 - Atta Boy - Big Heart Manners (LP)

9/11 - Johnny Thunders - Que Sera Sera: Resurrected (Boxset)

9/11 - Brian Cullman - Winters Clothes (LP)

9/18 - The Pull of Autumn - Small Colors (LP)

9/18 - Anton Barbeau - Manbird (Double LP)

9/22 - Babybird - King of Nothing (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)

9/25 - Mt.Doubt - Doubtlands (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)

11/13 - Andrew Adkins - The Echoist (LP)

1/01/2021 - This Frontier Needs Heros - Go With the Flow (LP)

RECENT

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 - SLiCE Bellafante - Leave it to Belle (LP)

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 - Mt. Doubt - "Dark Slopes Away" (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)

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 - Anton Barbeau - "Manbird" (single)

8/07 - Ryan Allen - Song Snacks Vol. 1 (LP)

8/07 - Saronde (feat. Idd Aziz) - "Firewood" (single)

8/07 - The Party of Helicopters - Live at Earthquaker Day 2019 (LP)

8/07 - Phillip La Rosa - "Baggage" (single)