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I love a three day weekend, but it is a fact that the four day work week that follows always requires the same amount of work as a five day work week...
Also, your intrepid music blogger got to get on stage for the first time since the E2TG Residency in 2019 and this time in front of a bigger audience. It was at the benefit to help keep the Exit/In open and locally owned and operated which was held at East Park. I was there representing WXNA, but on stage I was repping all of Nashville's independent radio stations.
I absolutely love being on stage. One of my earliest memories (or at least I remember being told about it) was reciting the story of The Three Billy Goat's Gruff (from memory) in front of my pre-school class and parents.
I have a lot of anxiety about a lot of things but for some reason - even Sunday knowing there was a huge crowd did not phase me at all.
Anyway, lots to get to today.
Featured Friday Playlist recap Part 2 (songs 14-21):
14. "Get Lost" by Ben Brown
From Sayonara Sorrow - the solo debut album of Austin based singer-songwriter songwriter Ben Brown. Although not as evident on this track - the concept of the album was to record thematically-connected songs too personal and intimate for a rock band setting and tie them together with the often grandiose saxophone stylings of Tim Cappello (best known for his appearance in The Lost Boys film). I really dig this song.
15. "Wanted Man" by EB
The Parallel Sessions is the new EP from indie singer-songwriter EB (Elisa Bianchi) who was born in Como, Italy and is now based in London.
16. "Gravity's String" by Graber Gryass
You may not think of Memphis and bluegrass in the same breath but the collective known as Graber Gryass may change that. This is a track from Spaceman's Wonderbox - their new album.
17. "Dead End Lady" by Toler Gibson
Next, a track from The Days Before - the new album from the California duo of Kenneth Gibson and Gavin Toler.
18. "Ballad of the Gobsmacked" by Three-Layer Cake
Some genre-exploding music from Mike Pride, Mike Watt, and Brandon Seabrook - from the new album Stove Top.
19. "Big Worse" by Dude Safari
Next up, we have the third single (and our third to feature) from this Surrey based grunge power trio. I'm a fan.
20. "Roll That Cotton" by The Kingspond Shantymen
Take A Turn Around The Capstan is the new album from this UK who sing shanties and drinking songs and the like. Really cool stuff.
21. "Oh Yeah" by Jordana Talsky
And, we close out this segment of music with the new single from this singer-songwriter who uses vocal looping effects in her live performances. A great way to close out this interesting segment of music.
Featured Friday Playlist
"Love and Leave You" by 100 mile house (from Love and Leave You - 2020)
First up, we have the title track from the 2020 Fallen Tree Records release by Edmonton, Canada based folk duo 100 mile house. One my favorites that I first heard in the early days of the pandemic.
"By Your Side" by Steven Keene (from It Is What It Is - 2019)
We go back to late 2019/early 2020 for this release from the Brooklyn born singer-songwriter. His latest album Them & Us was released in November of last year.
"Something Big" by Stuffy Shmitt (from Stuff Happens - 2020)
The long anticipated Nashville debut album of Stuffy Shmitt was released last year. I hope I get to see him perform these songs (and other favorites) live and in person soon. This is one of two songs we have featured that talks about the demise of the 2nd incarnation of the beloved Radio Cafe (the other being Mr. MPH's "They Killed the Radio Cafe").
"To the Test" by Table Sugar (from Typical Girls Vol. 5 - 2020)
Next up, we have a track from the 5th volume of the Typical Girls compilation series put out my Emotional Response Records. Table Sugar is (I think) a band from Washington State (or at least there is a band called Table Sugar from Washington State) that seems likely to be the band that recorded this cool song.
"After the Game" by Maynard and the Musties (from Cheap Cigar - 2012)
Closing out with a track from the 2012 album by long-time E2TG favorites Maynard and the Musties. Could not find a video on YouTube for this song, so I picked one from their latest album Grown-Up Things. The band led by Joe Maynard was based out of Brooklyn for many years - the latest album was recorded in Nashville. Joe Maynard is currently living in the Northeast but visits Nashville regularly so I will still claim them as a Nashville band.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
5/29 - The Contraptionists - Working Man's Dream (LP)
5/30 - Scott Standley - Victoria (LP)
6/03 - Bilbosa (feat. Lori Sky) - "Neon" (single)
6/04 - Lanterna - Hidden Drives (LP)
6/04 - Ammo - "Rose + Crown" (single)
6/04 - Cloud Eleven - Pandora's Box (LP)
6/04 - Some Swords - The Eve of the End (LP)
6/04 - Swift Silver - Swift Silver (LP)
6/04 - Amelia White & Brett Ryan Stewart - "Somebody to Hold" (single)
6/04 - Amelia White & Brett Ryan Stewart - 11 A.M. (EP)
6/04 - Jayson - "Body Work" (single)
6/04 - Speed the Plough - "Thunder and Snow" (single)
6/04 - Art Schop - "Farm on Mars" (single)
6/04 - Moonchy & Tobias - Venus Mirror (EP)
6/04 - Soulful Femmes - It Is Well With My Soul (LP)
6/04 - Tape Waves - Bright (LP)
6/04 - Annie Keating - Bristol County Tides (LP)
6/04 - Rid of Me - Last (3 song single)
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)
NEXT WEEK
6/11 - Soda Cracker Jesus - "Anthem" (single)
6/11 - Florel Daze - "Holes" (single)
6/11 - Late TV - "Night Tennis" (single)
6/11- Garrett Weiland - What Keeps the Heart Afloat (LP)
6/11 - Supermutt - Sinner's Boast (LP)
6/11 - Poggy - No More I (EP)
6/11 - Rafa - "Lullaby" (single)
UPCOMING
6/15 - Chris Connelly and Monica Queen - The Birthday Poems (LP)
6/18 - Thomas Comerford - Introverts (LP)
6/18 - Alexandra Hainsworth -
6/18 - Rocket Report - Overmorrow (LP)
6/18 - Neker - Slower (LP)
6/18 - The Wind-Ups - Try Not to Think (LP)
6/18 - Keely - Brave Warrior (EP)
6/18 - The Catenary Wire - Birling Gap (LP)
6/18 - Doctor Lo - Claiborne Avenue (LP)
6/18 - Michelle & Jason Hannan - Cheater's Waltz (LP)
6/19 - Willie Durisseau - Creole House Dance (EP)
6/21 - BOI - Coron O Chwin (LP)
6/21 - Arms & Armour - Into This Wide Unknown (EP)
6/25 - L.S. Underground - The Grape Prophet (LP - Reissue)
6/25 - Massage - Still Life (LP)
6/25 - Lights by the Sea - "Eleanor" (single)
6/25 - Routine Faces - Us vs. Them (LP)
6/25 - Jack Grace Band - What a Way to Spend the Night (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)
7/02 - The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show - Boomtown (LP)
7/04 - John PayCheck - We All Have a Story (LP)
7/06 - Boyracer - Assuaged (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 - Wild Earp & the Free For Alls - Dyin' for Easy Livin' (LP)
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 - Jon Byrd - Me and Paul (EP)
7/16 - Mark Duggan - "Run Out the Distance" (single)
7/16 - Clint Morgan- Troublemaker (LP)
7/23 - John McTigue III - It's About Time (LP)
7/23 - Art Schop - Starguide (LP)
8/13 - F. Scott and the Nighthawks - Hold Onto Your Heart (LP)
8/20 - Malcolm Holcomb - Tricks of the Trade (LP)
RECENT
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)
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 - Johanna Kuvaja - "Wanna Make Love to You" (single)
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 - Mojave Grey - "Flow" (single)
5/14 - Chartelli - "Fast Car" (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 - VICU - "Focused on You" (single)
5/14 - Pikefruit - Inflorescence (LP)
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)
5/19 - The Silver Lines - "Alive" (single)
5/20 - wilter - "solo/solong" (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 - The Low Countries - Betty's Boudoir Sessions (EP)
5/21 - Desert Hollow - Thirsty (LP)
5/21 - Marti West - "Everywhere" (single)
5/21 - SAMAS - "Drink Alcohol" (single)
5/21 - BOI - "Ribidires" (single)
5/21 - Jim McCulloch - When I Mean What I Say (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)
5/23 - Pennies by the Pound - Heat Death of the Universe (LP)
5/23 - Cap'n Marble - "Optical Wealth"/"Fox in A Hole" (single)
5/26 - Yes Factory - "Looking Glass" (single)
5/28 - Sharone - Morbid Illusion (LP)
5/28 - Ben Brown - Sayonara Sorrow (LP)
5/28 - Toler Gibson - The Days Before (LP)
5/28 - Tony Steele & The Massacre - "Invisible World" (single)
5/28 - Oui Plastique - "The Fear" (single)
5/28 - Dennis Dalcin - The Incomplete Completeness – A Retrospective 1977-1996 (LP)
5/28 - Tim Auton - "9 til 9" (single)
5/28 - Fiona Brown - Mundane (LP)
5/28 - Arcade Stories - Unbroken (LP)
5/28 - Dude Safari - "Big Worse" (single)
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)
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