E2TG 9/24/2020 - Penultimate - Sleep of Reason Mix (All the Way Remix)

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I continued to be overwhelmed by the constant terrifying news that dominates my social media feeds and headlines. Injustice, rising tide of fascism (this is not hyperbole - they are not even trying to hide it any more), division, anger, fear, death... I am missing the solace of seeing my friends almost every night and hearing live music while seeing said friends. I fear for the future, but I know that fear is not a place to rest. Anger is an energy, but it is up to me to focus my anger.  In the meantime, I have always believed in the power of love to conquer hate and fear and evil. It is a hard belief to cling to when it is so tempting to answer hate with hate - and mind you - anger is not the antithesis of love - hate and fear are the antithesis of love. Anger can be an expression of love if channeled properly. 

At the same time as all of that, I need to acknowledge that despair and hopelessness are reasonable feelings these days. For me, though, I can't afford to stay there. I also do not have the capability to stay serious and focused and angry 24/7 and I do not think I am alone. I can either choose to shame myself or others for needing a break or I can accept it, take the break, and come back stronger. 

Last thing:  I have to find my own voice and my own outlets of action.  What is the right action for someone else may not be right for me - and that can be for numerous reasons. I just need to say that because I have a bad habit to looking at others' actions and judging myself for not measuring up. It is good to take stock of my abilities and resources (time and money) and ask myself if I am doing enough, but to judge my own work by what someone else does - without taking into account differences in time and money etc is unfair. 

TL;DR: I choose to attempt to manifest love in all I do. Love can be expressed by anger. 

Today, we wrap up the Featured Friday Playlist as we prepare the way for a whole new Playlist debuting tomorrow.  As always, we saved some great stuff for the end of the playlist. We finish up with songs 24-28:

24. "Room 33" by Mcclendon

We kick things off with the title track from the debut EP by Nashville based singer-songwriter Mcclendon.  After playing in country/folk bands beginning in his native Oklahoma - with his brother, Mcclendon decided to go his own way and pursue his own music. I am digging this.

25. "Blur" by Dark McGwire; Focus3Dots

Next up, we have another solo debut. Dark McGwire is the alter-ego of Dame Crawford of The Wylde Bunch - a Grammy award producer/artist. The music runs the gamete from funk to folk and many points in between. The name of the album is Wyldebunch Presents Dark McGwire. Check it out. 

26. "A Girl Too Far" by Red Eye

Red Eye is an Anglo-Spanish songwriter. This new single is amazing. When I say I save some good stuff for the end of the Playlist... I mean it. This sounds like a cover - in that it has a familiarity that many great songs have upon first listen. 

27. "Moving Tangle" by Outwave

Italian alternative rock band Outwave just released their debut album, "The Storm". This was the lead single. I'm digging this.

28. "You Don't Know" by ASM
 

We close out this week's playlist with the latest single - from the forthcoming (Friday) album Blue Cocoon by the European trio ASM (A State of Mind). The cinematic hip-hop, soul, funk band members met in high school - one is Candaian, one German, and one English.  We have previously featured them on an earlier playlist. 
 

    Featured Friday Playlist

Thursday Morning Shuffle 

"Get Down to the Nitty Gritty" by Matthew Skoller (from Blues Immigrant)

Up first, we have a track from an album we featured heavily back in 2016. Matthew Skoller - a bluesman based in Chicago - but originally from NYC - explores his experience as a welcomed outside into the world of Chicago blues. The considers questions of cultural appropriation and more all while delivering first-class modern blues music, backed by an all-star band. 

"The Sleep of Reason" by Billy Bragg (from Bridges Not Walls)

Taken from a friend's annual mix CDs (2017 edition) and coming up the same week that I was reminded of Bragg's Americanarama appearance 7 years ago, this is from Bragg's 2017 EP. 

"Once I..." by Insane Jane (from A Green Little Pill)

Insane Jane - as I have written about before - were an Atlanta band active in the early 90s.  A friend, who had lived in Atlanta, introduced me to their music. I dug the album, but my friend assured me that their live shows were killer. A few years after being introduced to their music, I finallly got the chance to see them live - albeit for a very small Nashville crowd and despite the crowd size, they played as if the bar was packed. 

"Loves Missing" by Iggy Pop (from Free)

Last week, we feauted the new single from Leron Thomas and mentioned his work with Iggy Pop - well this is the fruit of that collaboration 

"All the Way" by Bob Dylan (from Fallen Angels)

We close with a 2016 cover of a Jimmy Van Heausen/Sammy Cahn son made famous by Frank Sinatra. 

VIDEO PLAYLIST

 

NEW AND RECENT RELEASES

THIS WEEK

9/21 - John Lensing - "Talk to Me" (single)

9/21 - The Silverbeets - "We Mattered (Once Upon a Time)" (single)

9/22 - Babybird - King of Nothing (LP)

9/22 - Mighty Joe Nolan - "Lone Wolves Together" (single) 

9/24 - Magnolia Bayou - Strange Place (LP)

9/24 - XL427; Mensa Deathsquad - "Ideas" (single)

9/25 - Buildings and Food - Up Down Strange Charm (LP)

9/25 - Music Maker Relief Foundation - Hanging Tree Guitars (LP)

9/25 - Cayucas - Blue Summer (LP)

9/25 - of1000faces - Astronomica (LP)

9/25 - Shane Tutmarc - Written & Produced by Shane Tutmarc (Double LP)

9/25 - ASM - Blue Cocoon (LP)

9/25 - Mt. Doubt - Doubtlands (LP)

LAST WEEK

9/15 - Darwin  - "Unkind Lover" (feat. David J) (single) 

9/16 - D.L. Marble - One Line at a Time (LP)

9/16 - HMS Morris - "Myfyrwyr Rhyngwladol" (single)

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

9/18 - Adrian + Meredith - "Kids These Days" (single)

9/18 - OUTWAVE - "Moving Tangles" (Single)

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

9/18 - Rahway - Slumlords of New Jersey (LP)

9/18 - The Persian Leaps - Smiling Lesson (EP)

9/18 - Dan Friese - Jane Songs (LP)

9/18 - Pelvis Wrestley - Vortex Vorever (LP)

9/18 - 4 Track All-Star - 5123 (LP)

9/18 - McClendon - Room 33 (EP)

9/18 - Red Eye - "A Girl Too Far" (single)

9/18 - EG Vines - "Them" (single)

9/18 - Julian Shah-Tayler - "Devil Knows" (single)

9/18 - Wynnm - "Milk" (single)

9/18 - Wynnm - Moonwalking (EP)

9/18 - The Asteroid No. 4 - Northern Songs (LP)

9/18 - Adam Kurtz - "M-I-LL-E-R Lite" (single)

9/18 - Adam McIntyre - Black Planet (LP)

9/18 - Nick Faber - "The Lost Highway Tapes" (LP)

9/18 - The Wake - "Perfumes and Fripperies" (single)

9/18 - Fabien Jack - "Silent Alarm" (single) 

9/18 - Various Artists - The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Record Story, Volume 1 (LP)

9/18 - Magazines - "Home Alone" (single)

NEXT WEEK

09/30 - The Sea at Midnight - "Afterglow" (single)

10/02 - Buckle Bunny - Pet Speak (LP)

10/02 - Divine Horsemen - "Mind Fever Soul Fire" (single)

10/02 - Will Payne Harrison - The Stratford Sessions (EP)

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)

10/02 - Gold Hick - Formed at Depth (LP)

10/02 - Laura Fernandez - Okay, Alright (LP)

10/02 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Jim's Dad" (single)

10/02 - Leron Thomas - More Elevator Music (LP)

10/02 - This Frontier Needs Heroes - "Go With the Flow" (single)

10/02 - Fly the Nest - "Wild Ride" (single)

10/02 - My Politic - Short Sighted People in Power (EP) - bandcamp release date

UPCOMING

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)

10/09 - Laraaji - Moon Piano (LP)

10/09 - Tomas Welding - "Arcade" (single)

10/09 - Howard Gladstone - The Promise (LP)

10/16 - Malin Pettersen - Wildhorse (LP)

10/16 - Monette - "Monotony" (single)

10/16 - Watch Clark - Generator Room (EP)

10/16 - Taiwan MC - Special Request (LP)

10/23 - The Agency - In the Haunted Woods (LP)

10/23 - Lera Lynn - On My Own (LP)

10/23 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Mommy & Daddy" (single)

10/23 - Justin Farran - Pretty Free (LP)

10/23 - The Luxembourg Signal - The Long Now (LP)

10/30 - Andrew Grimm - A Little Heat (LP) *(NEW DATE)*

10/23 - Andrew Weiss and Friends - Lookout Mountain (EP)

10/23 - The Subtheory - Impact (EP)

10/30 - Graber Gryass - Late Bloom (LP)

10/30 - Ghostlawns - Motorik (LP)

10/30 - Marten Larka - "Parfum Du Nuit "/ "Je Suis Un Rocker" (singles)

10/30 - My Politic - Short Sighted People in Power (EP)

10/30 - The Wake - Hammer Hall (LP)

11/06 - Love Tractor - Love Tractor - reissue (LP)

11/13 - The Flat Five - Another World (LP)

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

11/13 - The Silverbeets - Halcyon Days (LP)

11/13 - The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! - The World Will Break Your Heart (LP)

11/20 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Sweet Krazy" (single)

11/20 - John Calvin Abney - Familiar Ground (LP)

12/04 - Stuffy Shmitt - Stuff Happens (LP)

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

RECENT

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

8/18 - Jeremy Ivey - "Someone Else's Problem" (single)

8/18 - Matte Blvck - "Bare" (single)

8/19 - KC Beck - "Wake Me Up When This Year's Over" (single)

8/19 - The Persian Leaps - "Lost Cause" (single)

8/20 - Jessica Luise - "Television Mister" (single)

8/20 - Various Artists - For Belarus (LP)

8/21 - Eric Bolander - "Window" (single)

8/21 - A Shoreline Dream - 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 - Aquabats - Kooky Spooky ... In Stereo! (LP)

8/21 - Aquabats - "Dangerous Leon" (single)

8/21 - Little King - "Blend" (single)

8/21 - I LIKE TRAINS - KOMPROMAT (LP)

8/21 - Dan Friese - "Streetlight" (single)

8/21 - 3eon Vibe - "REDRUM" (single)

8/21 - Q&A - One More Jazz Thing (EP)

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

8/21 - Tom Galloway - "Feel That I'm Fallin'" (single)

8/28 - The Northern Belle - We Wither, We Bloom (LP)

8/28 - Special Moves - Little Help (LP)

8/28 - Molly Tuttle - ...but I'd rather be with you (LP)

8/28 - Caterpillars - Where Shadows Go to Speak (LP)

8/28 - Certain Animals - "Truth" (single)

8/28 - The Agency - "Defender" (single)

8/28 - Dianne Davidson - Perigon: Full Circle (LP)

8/28 - Andre Salvador & the Von Kings - Self Titled (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 - Jacob Wallace - "Wanderer" (single)

8/28 - Pace - "Boatman's Weather" (single)

8/28 - From Venus - "Unconditional" (single)

8/28 - Maria Shiel - Fire in the Sea (LP)

8/28 - Gold Hick - "Up Arrow"/"Trad Ghost" (single)

8/28 - Jonathan Plevyak - "Love After Midnight" (single)

8/28 - Thrillsville - "The Fever" (single)

8/28 - HMO - "Hate Speech" (single)

8/28 - Jonny Polonsky - "The Weeping Souls" (Alain Johannes Remix) (single)

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

9/02 - Leila - "By You Now" (single)

9/03 - COY Swede - "You Are" (single)

9/04 - India Ramey - Shallow Graves (LP)

9/04 - The Star Prairie Project - "Frantic Mind" (single)

9/04 - Soft Set - Love and Dancing (EP)

9/04 - Jabbawoki - Something's Cookin' (EP)

9/04 - Parker Lee- Scrundle (EP)

9/04 - Social Gravy - A Different Kind (EP)

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

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

9/04 - Ghostlawns - "Ffoi" (single)

9/04 - Debbie Lagrange - "La chanson des moustiques" (single)

9/04 - Rob Clarke and the Wooltones - Putting the L in Wooltones (LP)

9/04 - New Way Vendetta - "Cool/Cough"/"1984 (On the Floor)" (single)

9/04 - Once Upon a Flatline - "For the Wretched of Earth" (single)

9/04 - Leron Thomas - "Endicott" (single)

9/04 - Short-Haired Domestic - "A song in German concerning gardens and goodbyes" (single)

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

9/06 - Chrisy Mc Cullagh - The Sun That Does Not Set (LP)

9/08 - Petter Carlsen - "Good News" (single)

9/08 - Salem Wolves - Never Die" (EP)

9/09 - Dark McGwire - Wylde Bunch Presents Dark McGwire (LP)

9/10 - Conrad Deadly - "Apple Tree" (single)

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 - Sunday Someday - "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" (single)

9/11 - Brophy's Law - "Record Collector" (single)

9/11 - Blink - "Every Day is A Black Day From Today"(single)

9/11 - A Shoreline Dream - "Downstairs Sundays" (single)

9/11 - Bobby Royale - "Bang Bang Boogie" (single)

9/11 - ASM - "You Don't Know" (single)

9/11 - Malin Pettersen - "Wildhorse Dream" (single)

9/11 - S.L.D - Lost (LP)