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Whew... this week has been on a fast track for me. I realized that I never wrote my thoughts yesterday and now, I'm not sure what they were.. today, I am thinking about life as a journey and how I tend to be a bit aimless at times. But, I think it is good to have a destination in mind and to start off with a course set- it is just that along the way life happens and your course my change (and that change may be permanent) but that when that change happens it is good to reset your course - even if that means picking a new destination. I don't think it is good to remain bound by decisions made at an earlier time when a person, their world, the world might have been different.
I am saying this mostly for my self. I tend to spend too much time overthinking and re-thinking my decisions, and I sometimes ask myself what would 18 year old (or whatever age) Joe think about where I am now, but I am here today to tell myself that that isn't a fair question. 18 year old Joe didn't have the experiences I have, he didn't know the state of the world in 2020 vs. 1984. The fairer question is what does 54 year old Joe think about where I am in my life, and if he isn't happy with something - what can I do to change it?
Today, we recap four more songs from this week's Featured Friday Playlist: Songs 14-17
14. "What More Could I Say?" by Ivan Moult
Welsh singer-songwriter Ivan Moult just released two new songs - two years after his Longest Shadow LP. The airy track served as a great introduction of his music to me, and a great addition to our playlist. The other new song is called "Toxic".
15. "As a Matter of Fact" by The Furious Seasons
Next up, we have our first listen to La Fonda - the new album from Los Angeles folk rock trio, The Furious Seasons - led by singer-songwriter David Steinhart. This is a stunning song, and a great reminder of my why I do what I do - this is new-to-me music with decades of experience behind it, and it serves as a reminder of how much great music is left to be "discovered".
16. "Bikers" by Neighborhood Texture Jam
Thanks to a short Playlist this week, I was able to indulge myself and include this track celebrating the release of Funeral Mountain on streaming services. It is the debut album by the incendiary Memphis band - known for having a member dedicated to providing "texture" via 55 gallon oil drums, hubcaps and more. The album was released in 1990, and I can't remember if I had heard of the band during my short time in Memphis or if the cover/title/band name just caught my attention in the record store... but I do know that I was not prepared for what I was to hear. The band had the attitude and energy of punk, but there was so much more going on here. The lyrics were crass, offensive, shocking - at times funny but always dark, and I loved very minute of the album.
17. "Never Die" by Soft Set
I hope the extremely sharp turn didn't give anyone whiplash... we wrap up this segment of music with one side of the new 7" single from this Toronto melodic indie rock duo. The songs were produced by Mark Gardener of Ride. This is their debut single.
Tomorrow, we wrap up this week's Playlist with songs 18-21....
Featured Friday Playlist
Wednesday Morning Shuffle
"Six Black Horses And a 72 Oz. Steak" by RB Morris (from Going Back to the Sky)
I attended the Nashville release show for this album. After being only available in Europe, the album is now available for streaming all over the world. RB Morris is a poet (the first Poet Laureate of Knoxville, one of the finest living songwriters, and a big part of the story of the revitalization of Lower Broad in Nashville. Morris will be doing a livestream from the Bijou in Knoxville - the first act in a new streaming concert series from the folks at the Big Ears festival in Knoxville.
"Ancestral Vision" by Lumiere Tales (from Lunarium)
Next up, we have our first listen to an album released late last year. Lumiere Tales is the project by multi-instrumentalist Ivan Solas. Lovely electronic and instrumental music.
"T.H.C." by Tom Schreck (from #Schrexit)
Next up, we have an instrumental from the most recent album by E2TG favorite Tom Schreck.
"Paid by the Mile" by Ted Russell Kamp (from Walkin' Shoes)
L.A. singer-songwriter Ted Russell Kamp just recently released a new album - which we covered in our Featured Friday Playlist - last month. This is a track from his 2019 album. Wonderful song by an extraordinary songwriter.
"Holy Mess" by Jackie Bristow (from Freedom)
We close out today's shuffle with a track from this 2011 album by the singer-songwriter originally from New Zealand and now based in Los Angeles. A great song to finish up with today.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
8/17 - KnightressM1 - "Lock and Key" (single)
8/18 - Jeremy Ivey - "Someone Else's Problem" (single)
8/18 - Matte Blvck - "Bare" (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 - Bad Sauna - "Niin kuin se ennen oli (“As It Was Before”)" (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 - Biomechanimal - "Enter the Animal" (single)
8/14 - The Veer Union - "Slaves to the System" (single)
8/14 - Magnolia Bayou - "Sweet Magnolia" (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 - Certain Animals - "Truth" (single)
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 - Jessy Yasmeen - "Let's Slip Away" (single)
8/28 - Michael Landin - On a Clear Day (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)
9/11 - Brophy's Law - "Record Collector" (single)
9/18 - The Pull of Autumn - Small Colors (LP)
9/18 - Anton Barbeau - Manbird (Double LP)
9/22 - Babybird - King of Nothing (LP)
9/24 - Magnolia Bayou - Strange Place (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)
10/02 - Mantis & The Prayer - Murder Ballad and the Blue (AA singles)
10/02 - Kouatchou - "My Teacher"/"Change" (AA singles)
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)
10/09 - Jeremy Ivey - Waiting Out the Storm (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)
7/31 - Billy Ray Rock - "My Baby Mama" (single)
7/31 - SWIM - Pass By (EP)
8/03 - PXPRS - "Coup de grâce" (single)
8/05- Dissonance/Cat Hall - Trials (EP)
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 - Depression, Baby - "Isolation" (single)
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)
8/08 - Miss Molly Simms - Reckless (LP)
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