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Got out last night - visited Sid Gold's Request Room and partook of food from the Dreamers food truck. Dreamers was started by Doug and Telisha Williams (aka Wild Ponies) and photographer Laura Schneider after the pandemic shut down their normal careers.
The story of Dreamers* is inspirational in the best way. A prime example of turning adversity into triumph (and not personal triumph so much as triumph for the world). The Roasted Vegetable bowl I had was delish, too.
*I don't have the time to recount the story - but here is a link you can check out.
I can't believe it is time to wrap up this week's Featured Friday Playlist (As always we saved some great music for our final segment) Songs 47-55
47. "Knocks Me On the Floor" by Julez and the Rollerz
Southern California rock and rollers (formerly known as Julez) with their latest single. We featured the first single a few weeks back.
48. "Gravedigger" by The Damn Devils
Recorded remotely over the internet (which they were doing before the pandemic). This band features two brothers-in-law and a childhood friend of one of them. Brought together life-long love of rock and roll.
49. "How to Weigh a Whale Without a Scale" by Leanie Kaleido
The title track from the recent album by this UK singer-songwriter. The album was produced by Ride front man Mark Gardener. Kaleido's father was the original lead guitarist for the Yardbirds.
50. "The Call" by Death of a Legend
This is the third single (and our second feature) of the rock and roll band who emerged from the hardcore scene in Milano, Italy.
51. "I Am the Dance Floor" by Art d'Ecco
A fascinating artist from Vancouver - who brings a classic style and a modern sound - blurring whatever lines he can. I dig this a lot.
52. "Landscape Simulation" by The Green Kingdom
The Green Kingdom is the solo project of Michael Cottone a sound artist from Michigan. This was released on sound of silence records - a diy label from Athens, Greece.
53. "Through Somebody Else's Eyes - Leaether Strip Remix" by Nature of Wires
Nature of Wires is a UK artist who have been doing originals and remixes since the mid 1980s. Here they get the remix treatment from the legendary Danish EBM artist Leaether Strip.
54. "High Teens Low Twenties" by Ritual Cloak
Single from the forthcoming Divine Invasion album (due May 7) by this band from Cardiff, Wales (yes more Welsh music.)
55. "Monsters Mind Consuming" by Manntra
And we end on a high note with our second track to feature from this Balkan folk-metal band who combine Croatian folk influences with metal and industrial music from an original sound. A great way to take us out.
Featured Friday Playlist
"Sweet Science" by Leanie Kaleido (from How to Weigh a Whale Without a Scale - 2021)
Well, this has happened just a couple of time since I revamped E2TG - songs from the same album showing up in the Featured Friday recap and the Morning Shuffle on the same day. More details above.
"Moments of Clarity" by Extravision (from Waking Up - 2018)
Debut album of this project featuring Ryan Stier of Des Moines, IA. Cool stuff.
"Spinnin' My Wheels" by Jeff Mamett (from Carry Me Back - 2018)
Thank goodness my shuffle finally picked up on this 2018 album from singer-songwriter Jeff Mamett. Great song.
"Way too Hard" by Mick Hayes (from My Claim to Fame - 2020)
Next, a track from last year - Mick Hayes album is both a tribute to and was recorded at world famous (see what I did there) FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama - featuring an impressive line-up of Muscle Shoals session players and recorded on vintage equipment.
"Before the Bombs" by Death Cab for Cutie (from The Blue EP - 2019)
And we close with a track from the 2019 EP by Death Cab - I got this from a friends annual mix CD.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
4/08 - Cole Scheifele - "Back Then" (single)
4/09 - Dallas Moore - The Rain (LP)
4/09 - Storm Gordon - The Lie I Love the Best (LP)
4/09 - Cameron Alexander - "Sugar Bones" (single)
4/09 - Harri Larkin - "Tumbleweed" (single)
4/09 - Arden Lanes - A Little Something for Everyone (LP)
4/09 - Coke Belda - 5: A Tribute To The Bee Gees Vol. 2 (LP)
4/09 - Steven Faulkner - "Here's To The Down and Out" (single)
4/10 - Du Glas - "Edge of the World" (single)
NEXT WEEK
4/12 - Sunlust - Geek Confessions (LP)
4/14 - Eddie Turner - "Dignify Me" (single)
4/15 - The Buzzards of Fuzz - "Lonely in Space" (single)
4/15 - MIHI NIHIL - MIHI NIHIL (LP)
4/16 - The Brother Brothers - Calla Lily (LP)
4/16 - Stephen Flatt - Cumberland Bones (LP)
4/16 - Sour Ops - X (LP)
4/16 - David Wax Museum - Euphoric Ouroboric (LP)
4/16 - Mass Experience - "So High" (single)
4/16 - West of Texas - Hangovers & Honky Tonks (LP)
4/16 - Jon Flynn - Citrus (LP)
4/16 - Cole Quest and The City Pickers - Self (En)Titled (EP)
4/16 - John Louis - "Gone Too Far"/"Shut Down" (single)
UPCOMING
4/20 - Cricketbows - Raised on Rock And Roll (LP)
4/23 - DL Rossi - Lonesome Kind (LP)
4/23 - Flowertown - Flowertown LP (LP)
4/23 - The Catenary Wires - "Mirrorball (single)
4/23 - Summer Sleeves - In the Throes of Woes (LP)
4/23 - Gary Collocott - "Corrupt Young Mind" (single)
4/23 - The Magic Epic - "Sally" (single)
4/23 - Nick Nace - "Last Call" (single)
4/29 - Caulbearers - "Burst Through the Borders" (single)
4/30 - Hadda Be - Another Life (LP)
4/30 - Broken Links - Conflict::States (LP)
4/30 - Nick Hudson - Font of Human Fractures (LP)
4/30 - Dan Rose - "The Opposite" (single)
5/07 - Manolo Redondo - The Lost and Found (EP)
5/07 - McCormick - "Till the Sun Comes Up" (single)
5/07 - Benjamin Jayne - Theater (LP)
5/07 - The Purrs - We Thought There'd Be More People Here (LP)
5/07 - Leftover Salmon - Brand New Good Old Days (LP)
5/07 - Ted Russell Kamp - Solitaire (LP)
5/07 - Geoff Westen - Random Acts of Music (LP)
5/07 - Tim Foljahn - I Dreamed a Dream (LP)
5/14 - Soo Line Loons - Soo Line Loons (LP)
5/14 - Nature's Neighbor - Otherside (LP)
5/14 - Shay Martin Lovette - Scatter & Gather (LP)
5/14 - Eddie Turner - Change in Me (LP)
5/14 - Dope Sagittarius - Sacred Places (LP)
5/14 - Blue Panda - "What If I Were The One" (single)
5/14 - Pikefruit - Inflorescence (LP)
5/18 - Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters - Live From the Blue Moon (LP)
5/20 - Cathedral in Flames - Hang Me High and Bury Me Deep (LP)
5/21 - Moon - Shine (EP)
5/21 - Desert Hollow - Thirsty (LP)
5/21 - Hotel California - Orange (LP)
5/28 - Sharone - Morbid Illusion (LP)
5/28 - Toler Gibson - The Days Before (LP)
5/28 - Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions (LP)
5/29 - The Contraptionists - Working Man's Dream (LP)
6/04 - Lanterna - Hidden Drives (LP)
6/04 - Swift Silver - Swift Silver (LP)
6/04 - My Name is Ian - Fantastic Company (LP)
6/18 - Thomas Comerford - Introverts (LP)
6/25 - L.S. Underground - The Grape Prophet (LP - Reissue)
7/04 - John PayCheck - We All Have a Story (LP)
7/12 - Steve Dawson -At The Bottom Of A Canyon In The Branches Of A Tree (LP)
RECENT
3/05 - Steve Almaas - Everywhere You've Been (LP)
3/05 - Brian Damage - Yesterday's Slime (LP)
3/05 - Jason Ringenberg - Rhinestoned (LP)
3/05 - Susan Anders - 13 Women (LP)
3/05 - Griffin Winton - "For My Health" (single)
3/05 - Dude Safari - "Bug Hunter" (single)
3/05 - Kristian Montgomery and the Winter Kill Band - Prince in Poverty (LP)
3/05 - Dolour - "The Day Tom Petty Died" (single)
3/05 - Elizabeth and the Catapult - sincerely, e (LP)
3/05 - Megan Lacy - Salvation (EP)
3/05 - Adeem the Artist - Cast-Iron Pansexual (LP)
3/05 - The Sails - Bang!: The Best of The Sails 2006-2020 (LP)
3/05 - Pentral - "Silent Trees" (single)
3/05 - Jacob the Horse - College Party Mixtape, Vol. 1 (LP)
3/05 - Julez & The Rollerz - "In Secure City" (Single)
3/12 - Rylan Brooks - If Wishes Were Horses (LP)
3/12 - Peter Case - The Midnight Broadcast (LP)
3/12 - My Name is Ian - "For Love" (single)
3/12 - Victims of the New Math - The 70's Aren't Coming Back (EP)
3/12 - Lee Taylor - Wild Woman (LP)
3/12 - Semihelix - "New Destination" (single)
3/12 - Epilogues - You (EP)
3/12 - Kairo Beats - "Don't Trip (feat. Sam Swancott)" (single)
3/12 - Nature's Neighbor - "Monday Morning Drive" (single)
3/12 - Bhopal’s Flowers - Astroemeria - A Journey On Earth & Beyond (LP)
3/12 - KAKY - Room 404 (EP)
3/15 - The Last Element - "Cut it Off" (single)
3/17 - John McDonough - Second Chances (LP)
3/19 - American Culture - For My Animals (LP)
3/19 - The Rayo Brother - "Undead" (single)
3/19 - Dope Sagittarius - "Define Love" (single)
3/19 - The Miller Test - "Eden Gaol" (single)
3/19 - Storm Seeker - Guns Don't Cry (LP)
3/19 - Soziales Hetzwerk - "Hetzer" (single)
3/19 - Stephen Flatt - "El Camino" (single)
3/19 - The Dials - And Another Thing...bsides and asides (LP)
3/19 - Sylvan Paul - America (EP)
3/19 - Gallery 47 - "Angel Follows Me Out" (single)
3/19 - Remington Super 60 - Nouvelle Noveau" (EP)
3/19 - Nashville Ambient Ensemble - Cerulean (LP)
3/20 - Sunny Gable - Contagious (LP)
3/24 - Vinok - "friends" (single)
3/26 - Departure Lounge - Transmeridian (LP)
3/26 - Gracious Losers - Six Road Ends (LP)
3/26 - Without a Sin - "Colors" (single)
3/26 - Oliver Beardmore - "Fiesta" (single)
3/26 - Swansea Sound - "Indies of the World" (single)
3/26 - Jack Silverman - Now What (EP)
3/26 - The LA Maybe - Dirty Damn Tricks (LP)
3/26 - Ben Gorb - "Let the Music Play" (single)
3/26 - Casey & Taylor - "Post" (single)
3/26 - Dick Aven - It All Started In the Garden (LP)
3/26 - Cathal Coughlan - Owl in the Parlor (LP)
3/26 - Sunstroke Rain - "Go Greta" (single)
3/26 - Nature of Wires - "Through Someone Else's Eyes - Leather Strap Remix" (single)
3/26 - Modesty Blaise - The Modesty Blaise (LP)
4/01 - El No - Nothing is Possible (LP)
4/02 - indifferentMonKeY - "God or Machine?" (single)
4/02 - Tino and K. Carter - Safe Money (EP)
4/02 - Ritual Cloak - "High Teens Low Twenties" (single)
4/02 - Julez & The Rollerz - "Knocks Me On The Floor" (single)
4/02 - Elizabeth King - Living in the Last Days (LP)
4/02 - Dolour - Televangelist (LP)
4/02 - Smash Into Pieces - Wildest Dreams" (single)
4/02 - Yesterday's Gone - "(This is) Rock N Roll" (single)
4/02 - The Rocking Horse Winner - Horizon (cassette reissue)
4/02 - The Silver Devils - "Love Potion #10" (single)
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