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So, I got a new pair of glasses yesterday. For those of you who don't wear glasses, it is a big deal. 1. the new glasses potentially change your face - which is a big deal - although my quarantine beard is probably a bigger deal, and the new frames aren't dramatically different from the old ones. 2. If your prescription has changed, there is a moment of clarity when you first put on the new glasses - as if the world seems brand new. It is a passing feeling - at most lasting a day or two - but it is...er um... eye opening.
Seeking improved clarity is a worthy goal whether talking physical eyesight or something more philosophical. The world can be so confusing with conflicting messages bombarding us all day/every day. People try to cast doubt on facts, you wonder who you can trust, news is filtered through the lens of people with agendas. Even with the unfortunate right/left, red/blue, conservative/liberal dichotomy, even if you align yourself with one side or the other, there are factions on either side of the ideological aisle who offer different perspectives. And you are left wondering what is real, what is truth.
Forgetting politics for a minute... looking at diet - one message will say - eat "this" instead of "that" but then a different voice will say - well "this" is no good, you need to eat "something else" or you actually do need to eat "that' because it is not as bad as people say.
So, we all need more clarity in a variety of ways, so that is why - that momentary clarity of a new pair of glasses is so refreshing. Maybe, we all need to get a new pair of metaphorical glasses on a regular basis...
We continue to recap this week's Featured Friday Playlist with songs 21-25:
21. "Black Summer" by The Red Step
We start things off with the first single from the eponymous debut album by The Red Step from Belgrade, Serbia. The band features Tobias Nathaniel from The Black Heart Procession. I am digging the garage/post-punk sound here. Can't wait to hear more.
22. "Mama's Got a Gig" by New Yeller
Next up, we have an absolutely wonderful track from New Yeller who are from Vermont and Brooklyn. The song - written by the band's singer Laura Schweizer and features a gorgeous violin solo from 17 year Charlotte Knutsen. Zachariah Hickman (Josh Ritter, Ray Lamontagne, and Barnstar!) guests on upright bass.
23. "Seeing Shapes" by Teen Creeps
Teen Creeps are a Belgian three-piece band with an affinity for fuzzy guitars and fast-paced drums. This is their latest single. A great addition to the Playlist.
24. "Grand Scheme of Things" by David Woodard
Next up, we have the title track to the new EP by Nashville based jangle pop artist David Woodard. Really digging this.
25. "Fascination" by Watch Clark
Watch Clark is an electronic musician from Seattle. We covered the previous EP back in the Spring. This hard-hitting track is a great way to close out this segment of music.
Featured Friday Playlist
Wednesday Morning Shuffle
"The Shadow of Your Smile" by Bill Frisell (from When You Wish Upon a Star)
We start off with a track from jazz guitarist Bill Frisell's 2016 album of Motion Picture themes. This is his take on theJohnny Mandel/Webster composition from the 1965 film - The Sandpiper. Tony Bennett recorded the most popular version in 1966.
"Ad Nauseum" by Voice of Addiction (from The Lost Art of Empathy)
Next up, we have a track from the 2017 album by Chicago based punk band Voice of Addiction. The band, led by Ian Tomele, was the subject of the documentary Punk Band which was released in 2018.
"If You Will" by Kevin Gordon (from Long Gone Time - Bonus Track)
Next up, a bonus track from the 2015 album by East Nashville poet laureate Kevin Gordon.
"I Need Never Get Old" by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
Next up, we have the lead track from Nathaniel Rateliff's breakout album - his self-title debut with his band The Night Sweats - which was released on STAX in 2015.
"Blue Mountain Blues" by Kory Quinn & Co. (from The Blueroom)
The only 2020 release in this shuffle, this is a track from Houston, Texas based Kory Quinn's May 2020 release. Quinn and Co released just release the follow-up Home of the Brave yesterday.
"Once More Maria" by Tim Henderson (from The Legacy Collection Volume 2: Live in Texas)
And we close, with a track from the six CD Legacy collection by the late Texas songwriter Tim Henderson. We still have about 48 tracks left to feature from across the six discs.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASESTHIS WEEK10/17 - The Fortune - "All Eyes" (single)10/21 - Griff Clawson - "Chasing Highs" (single)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)10/23 - The Greek Theatre - “Demos & Alternate Takes Vol. 1” (LP)10/23 - Raves Kole - 3D Immersive (LP)10/23 - Andrew Weiss and Friends - Lookout Mountain (EP)10/23 - The Subtheory - Impact (EP)10/23 - Kevin Burnstein- Attack Distract Divide (LP)10/23 - Paul Nelson - Birmingham Woman (LP)10/23 - Rodney Rice - SAME SHIrT DIFFERENT DAY (LP)LAST WEEK10/12 - The Pull of Autumn - "The Stars of the Jungle" (single)10/13 - New Yeller- "Mama's Got a Gig" (single)10/16 - Malin Pettersen - Wildhorse (LP)10/16 - Matt Eckstine - Lil' Blue (LP)10/16 - The Mastersons - Red, White & I Love You Too (EP)10/16 - Watch Clark - Generator Room (EP)10/16 - Taiwan MC - Special Request (LP)10/16 - Jeremy Ivey - Waiting Out the Storm (LP)10/16 - Shape & Sound - "All Day Morning" (single)10/16 - Davey Woodward & the Winter Orphans - Love and Optimism (LP)10/16 - Burris - "Who I'm Thinking Of" (single)10/16 - Bad Sauna - "Haluun pois (“I Wanna Get Out”)" (single)10/16 - Volcanic Brass feat. EvilA - "Consoled Forts" (single)10/16 - The Plastic Pals - "More Than an icon" (single)10/16 - The Silverbeets - "Girlfriend" (single)10/16 - Maxximo - Live at Home (EP)10/16 - Taiwan MC - Special Request (LP)10/16 - Rid of Me - Broke Shit Demos (LP)10/16 - Isabelle Stillman - Heartrender (LP)NEXT WEEK10/30 - Andrew Grimm - A Little Heat (LP) *(NEW DATE)*10/30 - Philip Parfitt - Mental Home Recordings (LP)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)10/30 - Wheeler Del Toro - Quiet Alright (LP)10/30 - The Wake - Perfumes and Fripperies (LP)10/30 - Strays Don't Sleep - A Short Film for a Long Story (EP)UPCOMING10/31 - Beauty in Chaos - Out of Beauty Comes... (LP)11/06 - Love Tractor - Love Tractor - reissue (LP)11/06 - Tom Mason - Under the Mistletoe Sky (LP)11/12 - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection (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)11/13 - SWANS - Children of God - reissue (LP)11/13 - Last Year's Man - Brave the Storm (LP)11/13 - Cindy - Free Advice (LP - Reissue)11/20 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Sweet Krazy" (single)11/20 - John Calvin Abney - Familiar Ground (LP)11/20 - Josh King - The Shed (LP)11/20 - Life in a Blender - Satsuma (EP)11/27 - Lady Bugs - From the Cities, To the Shores (LP)12/04 - Stuffy Shmitt - Stuff Happens (LP)12/04 - Scenius - Enough Fears (LP)12/04 - Bad Sauna - Olen rikas sillä minulla on teidät (“I’m Rich Because I’ve Got You”) (LP)12/11 - The Red Step - The Red Step (LP)1/01/2021 - This Frontier Needs Heros - Go With the Flow (LP)2/05/2021 - The Orchestra of Cardboard - The Antidote (LP)RECENT9/15 - 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)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 - Hell Boulevard - Not Sorry (LP)9/25 - Ethan Gold - "The Last Dive" (single)9/25 - All Night Dining - "There Must've Been a Reason" (single)9/25 - The Roogs - The Roogs (LP)9/25 - Stuart Rolfe and the Daylight Stealers - No Gas Lost Roads (EP)9/25 - KnightressM1 - Dreams and Devastation (LP)9/25 - Healthy Junkies - Forever on the Road (LP)9/25 - Mav Nuhels; Metodo - "Quixotic Neutrino" (single)9/25 - Teen Creeps - "Seeing Shapes" (single)9/25 - Mt. Doubt - Doubtlands (LP)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 - The Subtheory - IMPACT (EP)10/02 - This Frontier Needs Heroes - "Go With the Flow" (single)10/02 - Fly the Nest - "Wild Ride" (single)10/02 - Christian Singles - Maybe Another Time (LP)10/02 - Elkyn - beech remixes (EP)10/02 - Short-Haired Domestic - Short-Haired Domestic (LP)10/02 - Steve Poltz - "Quarantine Blues" (single)10/02 - Elkhorn - The Acoustic Storm Sessions (LP)10/02- The Orchestra of Cardboard - "Black Flag" (single)10/02 - Lefthnd - Ad Mausoleum (LP)10/02 - Klammer - "I Don't Know What It Is" (single)10/02 - White Ribbon - "You Say You Don't Want Me" (single)10/02 - David Woodard - The Grand Scheme of Things (EP)10/02 - My Politic - Short Sighted People in Power (EP) - bandcamp release date10/08 - Melting Mallows - "I'm Okay" (single)10/08 - Jenee Halstead - "Heart Light" (single)10/09 - Year of October - Wastelands (LP)10/09 - Great Peacock - Forever Worse Better (LP)10/09 - Fred Abong - "The Minit" (single)10/09 - Zao - Preface: Early Recordings 1995-1996 (LP)10/09 - Zao - All Else Failed: 25th Anniversary Edition (LP)10/09 - Laraaji - Moon Piano (LP)10/09 - Tomas Welding - "Arcade" (single)10/09 - So We Are - Piece of the Puzzle (LP)10/09 - Howard Gladstone - The Promise (LP)10/09 - Rick Hromadka - Better Days (LP)10/09 - Josh Werner - Mode for Titan (LP)10/09 - Amelia White - "No Sound" (single)10/09 - Seagoth - "Dreamworld" (single)10/09 - Lee Taylor - "Pay It No Mind" (single)10/09 - Kevin Burnstein - "Distraction" (single)
Thank you for playing Grand Scheme of Things! davidwoodard.bandcamp.com
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