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Saturday, I got to catch Jason Ringenberg's first show in 14 months down on his farm. With a threat of rain averted, it was a wonderful afternoon and early evening. I got to the farm early enough to visit with the chickens and the pony Tinkerbell, and to explore the grounds.
Musically, the show was fantastic. Jason played several Scorchers' classics as well as tracks from his solo records including his most recent Rhinestoned. On several tracks he was joined by the always incredible Fats Kaplin and Kristi Rose (who are long time collaborators who also appeared on the new album). Ringenberg's daughters also joined him on his version of the hymn "Christ the Lord is Risen Today". And one of his daughters played flute and sang harmony on "Highway Songs".
Jason had - as he does - a contest for the most obscure request of song he had performed at some point. One of the requests was for a song that Farmer Jason had written several years before with a troupe of girl scouts - a couple of whom happened to be there. When Jason confessed that he didn't remember a word of the song, the two young women got up and sang it.
The show ended with guest guitar phenom Boone Hood joining on a fiery version of "Absolutely Sweet Marie".
Several notable Nashville musicians were in attendance along with some hardcore fans and friends.
Featured Friday Playlist recap Part 2 (songs 16-25):
16. "Otherside of Town" by Nature's Neighbor
Illinois-based collective Nature's Neighbor returns to the Playlist with their latest single. Their new album Otherside is due out this coming Friday.
17. "Tired Eyes" by Ruby Bones
Next up, we have a track from the celebratory new album from these New Jersey rockers. The album is called Laser Tooth Tiger and it is out now. Check it out!
18. "Photos" by Ski Team
Next up, we have a gorgeous new track from this solo project of Brooklyn based singer-songwriter, producer, and guitarist Lucie Lozinski.
19. "Wait" by Go Analog
Next up, we have a new single from this Columbus Ohio based rock band. It is being released to celebrate the vinyl release of their EP Moonlight Gram which includes this song. Great stuff.
20. "Falling Out North St." by Cathal Coughlan
Next up, the new single from Irish musician Cathal Coughlan (The Fatima Mansions, Microdisney). We have featured some earlier tracks, and I continue to enjoy this music.
21. "Pay Attention" by Abby K
We shift gears and head to North Carolina for this new single from female-fronted hard rock/metal band based in Charlotte.
22. "Good Morning Sunshine" by Sunshine & The Blue Moon
Next up, some shimmering yet dark psychedelic grooves from this Canadian band. Their new album Born 2 Boogie is out in June, and I can't wait to hear more from this band.
23. "Silly Games" by The Supermercados
Next up, we have a cool recent single from this UK based band. I'm digging it.
24. "Lifestream - Luke Slater's 7th Plain Remix" by Johannes Motschmann
Next up, we find out what happens when a neo-classical composure teams with a techno DJ. Spoiler alert: It is utterly fantastic.
25. "Song for Pete" by Skidders
And, we close out with a track from a veteran English session musician off his just released new acoustic album Family & Friends. And great tune to close out this segment of music.
Featured Friday Playlist
"Drunk Dial" by Dolour (from The Royal We - 2020)
Going back to the 2020 reappearance of Shane Tutmarc's old band Dolour. This album featured songs previously written but never recorded. Televangelist - an new album of all new material was released in 2021.
"Come & Get It" by Year of October (from Trouble Comes - 2017)
Long-time E2TG favorites Year of October are up next with a track from their 2017 album Trouble Comes. Check out the fun video for the song in the Video Playlist.
"Wondrous Wind" by Tom Mason (from The Blue Buccaneer - 2011)
Tom Mason wasn't always a pirate. He was once a sensitive singer-songwriter type who sang sensitive singer-songwriter type songs. I am not sure if this is the album that started the pirate phase of his career, but I am going to say that it was. The album title would become the name of his hearty band of scalawags. The video of this song in the playlist was recorded during quarantine last year.
"Caught Up in the Dread" by The White Animals (from 3000 Nights in Babylon - 1999)
The White Animals were one of the popular Nashville bands in their hey dey. This compilation appeared a decade after the band initially broke up and was followed by a two night stand in their hometown. The band still reunites periodically and as I understand it still packs them in when they do.
"Eowyn's Song" by Lori Kelley (single - 2020)
Next up, a Lord of the Rings inspired song from a long-time E2TG favorite - singer-songwriter Lori Kelley.
"Saturday" by Josh Rouse (from Nashville - 2005)
The album Nashville marked Josh Rouse's swan song to the city he had called home for several years. A great tune from a great album to close out this shuffle.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
5/12 - Ender Bender - "Have a Good Time" (single)
5/13 - Middle Child - "Burn Out" (single)
5/13 - The Gorstey Lea Street Choir - "Bluebird, Hollywood... Domino" (single)
5/14 - Soo Line Loons - Soo Line Loons (LP)
5/14 - Leo Crandall - "On the Way Back" (single)
5/14 - Nature's Neighbor - Otherside (LP)
5/14 - Jaffa Road - "Until When" (single)
5/14 - Mark Fry - Dreaming With Alice (reissue) (LP)
5/14 - Gasleben and Electric Friends - Spare Parts for the Offspring (LP)
5/14 - Delila Black - "Accountability" (single)
5/14 - Shay Martin Lovette - Scatter & Gather (LP)
5/14 - Eddie Turner - Change in Me (LP)
5/14 - Kay Jay Keller - "I Choose You" (single)
5/14 - Dope Sagittarius - Sacred Places (LP)
5/14 - Blue Panda - "What If I Were The One" (single)
5/14 - Pikefruit - Inflorescence (LP)
NEXT WEEK
5/17 - Tesla Shamans - Electric Storm (LP)
5/18 - Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters - Live From the Blue Moon (LP)
5/18 - Vandi Lynnae - “Two Stars Collide” (single)
5/20 - Cathedral in Flames - Hang Me High and Bury Me Deep (LP)
5/20 - Ambulance on Fire - Ambulance on Fire (EP)
5/21 - Moon - Shine (EP)
5/21 - Caddy - Detours and Dead Ends (LP)
5/21 - Sister John - I Am Day by Day (LP)
5/21 - Desert Hollow - Thirsty (LP)
5/21 - Rod Picott - Wood, Steel, Dust and Dreams (2LP)
5/21 - Hotel California - Orange (LP)
5/21 - Trees Speak - Post Human (LP)
5/21 - Oh Condor - Emergency Psychic (LP)
5/21 - Zebrah - Stripes (EP)
UPCOMING
5/23 - Pennies by the Pound - Heat Death of the Universe (LP)
5/28 - Sharone - Morbid Illusion (LP)
5/28 - Ben Brown - Sayonara Sorrow (LP)
5/28 - Toler Gibson - The Days Before (LP)
5/28 - Oui Plastique - "The Fear" (single)
5/28 - Fiona Brown - Mundane (LP)
5/28 - Arcade Stories - Unbroken (LP)
5/28 - Nature of Wires + Machina X - "Within" (single)
5/28 - EB - The Parallel Sessions (EP)
5/28 - Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions (LP)
5/28 - Dawn-Song - For Morgan (LP)
5/29 - The Contraptionists - Working Man's Dream (LP)
5/30 - Scott Standley - Victoria (LP)
6/04 - Lanterna - Hidden Drives (LP)
6/04 - Swift Silver - Swift Silver (LP)
6/04 - Jayson - "Body Work" (single)
6/04 - Annie Keating - Bristol County Tides (LP)
6/04 - Mary Hott with The Carpenter Ants - Devil in the Hills: Coal Country Reckoning (LP)
6/04 - My Name is Ian - Fantastic Company (LP)
6/04 - Pastel Ghost - Sun (LP)
6/11 - Soda Cracker Jesus - "Anthem" (single)
6/11 - Supermutt - Sinner's Boast (LP)
6/18 - Thomas Comerford - Introverts (LP)
6/18 - Rocket Report - Overmorrow (LP)
6/18 - The Wind-Ups - Try Not to Think (LP)
6/18 - The Catenary Wire - Birling Gap (LP)
6/18 - Doctor Lo - Claiborne Avenue (LP)
6/19 - Willie Durisseau - Creole House Dance (EP)
6/21 - BOI - Coron O Chwin (LP)
6/25 - L.S. Underground - The Grape Prophet (LP - Reissue)
6/25 - Massage - Still Life (LP)
6/25 - Routine Faces - Us vs. Them (LP)
6/25 - Sunshine & The Blue Moon - Born 2 Boogie (LP)
6/25 - Hilary Scott - Kaleidoscope (EP)
6/25 - Sir Orfeo - Millefleur (LP)
7/02 - Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow (LP)
7/04 - John PayCheck - We All Have a Story (LP)
7/09 - Leo Crandall - They're Cutting Up Betty's Dress Tonight and Other Hymns (LP)
7/09 - Ben Reddell Band - ¡LA Baby! (EP)
7/09 - The Gorstey Lea Street Choir - ...from Prince's Park to Farsley - Volume I (LP)
7/09 - Tylor & The Train Robbers - Non-Typical Find (LP)
7/12 - Steve Dawson -At The Bottom Of A Canyon In The Branches Of A Tree (LP)
7/16 - Blue Glass - Jardin des Étoiles (LP)
7/16 - Clint Morgan- Troublemaker (LP)
8/20 - Malcolm Holcomb - Tricks of the Trade (LP)
RECENT
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)
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 - Ali In the Jungle - "Fuel on the Fire" (single)
4/10 - Du Glas - "Edge of the World" (single)
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 - Troy Bentley - Headlock (LP)
4/16 - Ventrelles - "Call of Morning" (single)
4/16 - Stephen Flatt - Cumberland Bones (LP)
4/16 - My Name is Ian (feat. HMS Morris) - "Where is the Time" (single)
4/16 - Sour Ops - X (LP)
4/16 - Conor Gains - Threë EP (EP)
4/16 - Nouhi's Nomad - "Number 4" (single)
4/16 - David Wax Museum - Euphoric Ouroboric (LP)
4/16 - Jim McCulloch - "Chorus of Lists" (single)
4/16 - Dawn-Song - "She Has Spoken" (single)
4/16 - Mass Experience - "So High" (single)
4/16 - Zebrah - "Hey Mama" (single)
4/16 - David Woodward - Butterfly Effect (EP)
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)
4/20 - Cricketbows - Raised on Rock And Roll (LP)
4/20 - Tombstones In Their Eyes - Looking for a Light (LP)
4/20 - Sir Orfeo - "So Long" (single)
4/21 - Kid Hastings - "Off Guard" (single)
4/22 - Lou McMahon - "Pockets of Change" (single)
4/23 - DL Rossi - Lonesome Kind (LP)
4/23 - Certain Animals - "Hold On" (single)
4/23 - Your Academy - Your Academy (LP)
4/23 - Flowertown - Flowertown LP (LP)
4/23 - The Catenary Wires - "Mirrorball (single)
4/23 - Afton Wolfe - "Dirty Girl" (single)
4/23 - dontmesswithjuan - "Mutant Fur" (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)
4/23 - Least - Folding My Hands, Accepting Defeat (EP)
4/29 - Caulbearers - "Burst Through the Borders" (single)
4/29 - Ernest Moon - "Big Wow" (single)
4/30 - Griffin Winton - "Blockbuster Blues" (single)
4/30 - Pikefruit - "Clockwork" (single)
4/30 - Hadda Be - Another Life (LP)
4/30 - Broken Links - Conflict::States (LP)
4/30 - BOI - "Cael Chdi Nol" (single)
4/30 - moshimoshi - moshimoshi I (EP)
4/30 - Dead By Design - Into the Night (LP)
4/30 - MILO - "What's the Matter?
4/30 - Calling Apollo - "Bitter" (single)
4/30 - Gerald Slevin - "It's Your World" (single)
4/30 - SYTE - "Up in the Air" (single)
4/30 - Lorraine Nash - "Sing With Her" (single)
4/30 - The New Black Diamonds - "Reload" (single)
4/30 - The Chickenbackers - Yeh Right, Yeah (LP)
4/30 - Nick Hudson - Font of Human Fractures (LP)
4/30 - The Legal Matters - Chapter Three (LP)
4/30 - Dan Rose - "The Opposite" (single)
4/30 - Climbing Trees - "Troubling Times" (single)
4/30 - Mode Shifter - "Doin' Fine" (single)
4/30 - KissDoomFate - "Sparkleblood" (single)
5/01 - This Twisted Wreckage - EI8HT (LP)
5/04 - Skidders - Friends & Family (LP)
5/04 - Razorhouse - "Hobo Stomp" (single)
5/04 - John Howard - Collected - The Best of John Howard (LP)
5/06 - “+øc.” - Pandemønivm (LP)
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 - Peter Duff - "The To Do List" (single)
5/07 - IV Reed - "Find a Way" (single)
5/07 - Timothy and the Apocalypse - "You Oughta Love Me" (single)
5/07 - Teresa Guidry - "Paris" (single)
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 - Pentral - What Lies Ahead of Us (LP)
5/07 - To Twelve - "The Return" (single)
5/07 - Harri Larkin - "Saving Aimee" (single)
5/07 - Dolly Ave - Sleep (LP)
5/07 - Death Pop Radio - Death Pop Radio (LP)
5/07 - Geoff Westen - Random Acts of Music (LP)
5/07 - Tim Foljahn - I Dreamed a Dream (LP)
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