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Some days, I think about why I have been able to continue E2TG for nearly a decade - when so many excellent blogs have ended or faded after a much short time. Besides my joke answers (stubbornness, not having an escape plan), the real answer, I think is doing it almost every day - even when I don't want to. There have been days, of course, when I wasn't able to write, but I never didn't write just because I didn't feel like it. I guess it is like other things (some good habits I need to work on) - you just put one foot in front of the other (write one blog post after another) and ten years have passed.
Featured Friday Playlist Part 3 (Songs 23-30):
23. "SPARKLEBLOOD" by kissdoomfate
The sensual French duo, kissdoomfate return with a new single and a crowdfunding effort to produce videos for their EP #2. A great way to kick off this segment of music.
24. "You Got It" by Scott Standley
Scott Standley is an Austin Texas native who has been living between Austin, Chicago, and Seattle for the last decade will be releasing his debut album Victoria and we have a single from that album. The album is named for the town in Texas where he first heard grandparents playing music and where he first played along.
25. "I Won't Do Anything" by Rory D'Lasnow
Next up, we have a great new single from this New Jersey singer-songwriter. Cool tune. He is currently working on his 3rd EP.
26. "The Day Called X" by Broken Links
Next up, we have a track from Conflict:State the new album from the 3-piece UK alt-rock band. Great stuff.
27. "8teen" by Kind Villain
Next up, we have a cover of Khalid's 2017 "8teen" from Kind Villain - which was founded by the artist Ev V Frederick.
28. "Cognitive Dissonance" by Swim the Current
New Jersey band Swim the Current bring the heaviness to their recent single. A wonderful change of pace for the playlist.
29. "Light Up the Sky" by The Legal Matters
Next up, we have the lead track from Chapter Three by this rocking pop band from Michigan. Really dig this.
30. "Hipsterboy" by The Chickenbackers
And we close with some awesome Merseybeat sounds from Madrid. Yeh Right, Yeah! was released in 2019, but until now was only available on vinyl - check this out and try not the dig it.
Featured Friday Playlist
"To Be Blinkered" by Spencer Cullum (from Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - 2020)
I remember first seeing Spencer Cullum Jr. playing pedal steel and regular guitar behind Caitlin Rose at a Record Store Day event at Grimey's several years back. Later, I saw him as part of Steelism at maybe an Americanarama show at the same location. I was excited to get to preview his first solo album, and I have really enjoyed the music.
"To Who I Confide" by Danny Sandock (from One For All Seasons - 2011)
E2TG favorite Danny Sandock is based in California. He has lived in Indiana and here in Nashville. This is from his album which was released the same year I started E2TG. I didn't know him then, but he has become a good friend of the blog.
"Long Shadow Trail" by Linda McRae (from Shadow Trails - 2015)
Linda McRae has been a big part of the Nashville music community for many years. I first connected with her a Dee's a few years back, and that is around the time I got this album.
"I'll Follow the Sky" by ESOEBO (from ESOEBO VI - 2019)
I was thrilled to feature this album by the duo whose name stands for Eclectic Selections of Everything But Opera). The album featured Phil Madeira and the rest of The Red Dirt Boys (Emmylou's band) including our friend Will Kimbrough. I was heartbroken a short while later to learn of the passing of Chuck McDowell of ESOEBO after a long battle with cancer. The music lives on.
"Either Way" by Joyann Parker (from Out of the Dark - 2021)
Next, we have another track from that recent album by Minneapolis based singer-songwriter Joyann Parker. Great stuff.
"Sunny Afternoon" by Vernon Tonges (from Solo & Live with Some Urgency - 2020)
And we close things out with some live music from the eccentric singer-songwriter aka Spoo Willoughby. This is a cover of a Ray Davies penned 1966 song originally recorded by The Kinks.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
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 - 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 - 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)
NEXT WEEK
5/13 - Middle Child - "Burn Out" (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 - 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 - Dope Sagittarius - Sacred Places (LP)
5/14 - Blue Panda - "What If I Were The One" (single)
5/14 - Pikefruit - Inflorescence (LP)
UPCOMING
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 - Dawn-Song - For Morgan (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 - Zebrah - Stripes (EP)
5/28 - Sharone - Morbid Illusion (LP)
5/28 - Toler Gibson - The Days Before (LP)
5/28 - Oui Plastique - "The Fear" (single)
5/28 - Fiona Brown - Mundane (LP)
5/28 - EB - The Parallel Sessions (EP)
5/28 - Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions (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 - 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 - 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 - 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)
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)
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