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Heading into the last week of July. Life can be both wonderful and overwhelming at the same time. I keep looking for a pause button but whenever circumstances force me to pause, I am uneasy and anxious to get moving again. So, I try to find peace in the unease and take comfort knowing that anything that doesn't get done will either get done in its own time or didn't need to get done after all.
Featured Friday Playlist recap (part 2) (songs 11-14):
11. "Levels" by Ifjams
Chicago-based producer and rapper who I saw perform on Record Store Day at The Groove. He has a track on the RSD release Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (John Prine tribute) put out by Nashville's Devil's Tower Records.
12. "Sun" by Emma-Jean Thackray
UK singer-songwriters excellent Yellow album just hit streaming services. One of my favorites on 2021 so far.
13. "Name" by MESSER
Dallas Texas based rock band with this recent cover of the Goo Goo Dolls single.
14. "Groove" by JAiRUS
And we close this section of music with the title track from the forthcoming new EP from this Maryland native and L.A. based, classically trained singer-songwriter. A fantastic way to take us out of the recap for today. Listen for "Groove" on Ear to the Ground radio tomorrow morning.
Featured Friday Playlist
"Hope" by East Kin (from Freshman Effort - 2017)
East Kin is a relatively new band that features members from a variety of long-running bands like Ballhog!, Old Union, and more. This is from the debut East Kin album.
"My Love Has Gone" by Josh Rouse (from Nashville - 2005)
Josh Rouse began his music career in Nashville before moving to Spain. This was, I believe, his swan song to Music City.
"Manifest Destiny" by Tower Defense (from In the City - 2020)
Nashville punk band whose members have been a part of the local scene for many years.
"John Muir Stood Here" by Jason Ringenberg (from Stand Tall - 2019)
Jason's previous album - that really marked his return as an active solo artist. The song was written during and inspired by his residency in Sequoia National Forest.
"Mercy Drum" by Lindsay Ellyn (from Queen of Nothing - 2021)
Lindsay Ellyn didn't rush in completing her debut full-length album but the wait was worth it, and Queen of Nothing is one of my favorite albums of 2021 so far.
"The Sexy Sadist" by Sour Ops (from X - 2021)
Band led by musician and photographer Price Harrison. Another fantastic release from 2021.
"Colfax" by Kevin Gordon (from Gloryland - 2012)
Kevin Gordon's epic story of growing up in the 1970s in Louisiana that deals with racism, teen hormones, and a stoic band leader. One of my all-time favorite songs.
"Using Again" by Tim Carroll (from All You Need Is More - 2019)
Kevin Gordon was on my list of 5 favorite Nashville songwriters from my Pledge Drive edition of Greetings From Nashville. - Tim Carroll was another. This is a track from his 2019 release.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
7/27 - André Paraguassu - "If the Day Comes"/"Everything I Wanted" (single)
7/28 - Hans Deville - "Dark Clouds" (single)
7/28 - Jango Flash - "My Mercedes" (single)
7/29 - West Side Joe & The Men of Soul - Keep on Climbin' (LP)
7/30 - FLDPLN - "Escalator" (single)
7/30 - N'famady Kouyaté - Aros I Fi Yna (EP)
7/30 - The Foreign Films - Starlight Serenade (LP)
7/30 - Georgia English - Pain and Power
7/30 - Dust Monk - "Choppy Waters" (single)
7/30 - My Pet Fauxes - "Crazy" (single)
7/30 - The Nautical Theme - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed (EP)
7/30 - Lightning Love - November Birthday (reissue) (LP)
NEXT WEEK
8/02 - Electric Kif - Dreamlike (LP)
8/02 - The Tolks - "Beside the Deathbed" (single)
8/03 - Limina - Hidden Spaces (LP)
8/04 - Hans Deville - Prophecies of the Lost (LP)
8/04 - Lenny - Personal Celebrity (EP)
8/06 - Mercy Bell - Golden Child (LP)
8/06 - Colin Hay - I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself (LP)
8/06 - Joshua Ben Joseph - I Want The Old World Back (EP)
UPCOMING
8/08 - Sleeveens - "The Draw" (single)
8/07 - Massage - Still Life (LP)
8/13 - F. Scott and the Nighthawks - Hold Onto Your Heart (LP)
8/13 - Charles Arizona - WYW (LP)
8/13 - Elijah Ocean - Born Blue (LP)
8/13 - Brother Earl - Down With My Ship (EP)
8/13 - Diane Ofori - "Sail Away" (single)
8/16 - Penelope Antena - Beamorose (LP)
8/20 - Malcolm Holcomb - Tricks of the Trade (LP)
8/20 - Darrin Bradbury - Artvertisement (LP)
8/20 - Andy Peake - Mood Swings (LP)
8/20 - James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hound (LP)
8/20 - Elder Jack Ward - Already Made (LP)
8/20 - Grace Morrison - Daughter (LP)
8/20 - Fen - Life is So Beautiful (LP)
8/20 - Lindsay Jarman - The Gallery (LP)
8/25 - Jeff Tuohy - Hudson Delta (LP)
8/27 - Ben Stalets - Everybody's Laughing (LP)
8/27 - Mikaela Finne - Time Stands Still (LP)
8/27 - Coco Zandi - As Simple As A Dream (LP)
8/27 - Jack Wakeman & The Dreamstriders - "Visions" (single)
8/27 - Ari Vais & The Campbell Apartment - The Very Best of Ari Vais & The Campbell Apartment (LP)
8/27 - Mike Younger - Bring the Bigtop Down (LP)
8/27 - Divine Horsemen - Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix (LP)
8/31 - Nicholas Tremulis - Rarified World (LP)
9/?? - Laura Mihalka - Feels Electric (LP)
9/01 - Remains - Millennial Nation (LP)
9/10 - Air-Cool Jenny - First Flight (EP)
9/14 - Chris Robley - A Filament In The Wilderness or What Comes Next (LP)
9/17 - No Thee No Ess - Dimmer Switch (LP)
9/30 - Arkells - Blink Once (LP)
10/01 - Cindy - 1:2 (LP)
10/15 - Sarah Mcquaid - The St Buryan Sessions (LP)
RECENT
6/15 - Chris Connelly and Monica Queen - The Birthday Poems (LP)
6/15 - The Attractor Beams - "Only" (single)
6/18 - Thomas Comerford - Introverts (LP)
6/18 - Alexandra Hainsworth - "Lose it With Me" (single)
6/18 - Rocket Report - Overmorrow (LP)
6/18 - Dreampark - "Time Machine" (single)
6/18 - Neker - Slower (LP)
6/18 - The Wind-Ups - Try Not to Think (LP)
6/18 - Keeley - Brave Warrior (EP)
6/18 - Silly Boy Blue - Breakup Songs (LP)
6/18 - Sunbourne Rd. - Manners maketh men (LP)
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)
6/22 - Shiffley - Aperitif (EP)
6/23 - AP Tobler - "Eye for an Eye" (single)
6/24 - Bad Sauna - "Kaikki kotona" (single)
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 - Brent Seavers - BS Stands for Brent Seavers (LP)
6/25 - Ender Bender - New Era (EP)
6/25 - Cat Dowling - "Freedom" (single)
6/25 - Mikaela Finne - "Outlaw Women" (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)
6/28 - Soft Riot - Second Lives (LP)
6/30 - Trio Nilo - Planeta Desierto (LP)
7/01 - Remains - "City of July" (single)
7/02 - Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow (LP)
7/02 - Joel Tyler Wall - Green Wave (LP)
7/02 - The Academy of Sun - "It Is Finished When It's Destroyed "/ "Ghost Foxes" (single)
7/02 - Jeff Mix & the Songhearts - "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" (single)
7/02 - ZOLA - Glitter and the Gold (EP)
7/02 - Sons of Southern Ulster - "Polaris (Pete Briquette Remix)" (single)
7/02 - Jennifer Tefft - "A Little More" (single)
7/02 - Colin Moulding - "The Hardest Battle" (single)
7/02 - Adam Kurtz - Hi, Society (EP)
7/02 - The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show - Boomtown (LP)
7/04 - John PayCheck - We All Have a Story (LP)
7/04 - Liz Vice - "This Land is Your Land" (single)
7/06 - Boyracer - Assuaged (LP)
7/08 - New Voyage - "Love Me Again" (single)
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 - Various Artists - Cheese Pizza in Paradise Vol. 1 (LP)
7/09 - The Light Show - Round and Round (LP)
7/09 - Wild Earp & the Free For Alls - Dyin' for Easy Livin' (LP)
7/09 - Ro Halfhide - Paint The Town (LP)
7/09 - Sophie Janna - "Nightfall" (single)
7/09 - Billy Hammer - "Palm of Your Hand" (single)
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)
7/12 - Hunter Thomas - "Go For a Drive" (single)
7/13 - Upupayāma - Upupayāma (LP)
7/13 - FLDPLN - Aliso (single)
7/14 - AP Tobler - Alternate Vision (EP)
7/15 - MeeN - "Wizard's Feast" (single)
7/16 - Blue Glass - Jardin des Étoiles (LP)
7/16 - Georgia English - "Where Are You Now?" (single)
7/16 - Jon Byrd - Me and Paul (EP)
7/16 - Joel Ansett - I Should Get Some Rest (EP)
7/16 - The Great Leap Forward - "Revolt Against An Age of Plenty" (single)
7/16 - No Thee No Ess- "Chorus" (single)
7/16 - Hankshaw - Nothing Personal (LP - Reissue)
7/16 - Eric Lunde - "Long Time Overdue" (single)
7/16 - Hankshaw - Something Personal (LP - Compilation)
7/16 - Louise Cappi - "Hope" (single)
7/16 - Pretty Happy - Sluggers Bridge (EP)
7/16 - Pretty Happy - "Sudocream" (single)
7/16 - Mark Duggan - "Run Out the Distance" (single)
7/16 - David Long and Shane O'Neill - Far From Home (EP)
7/16 - N'famady Kouyaté - "Balafô Douma" (single)
7/16 - Clint Morgan- Troublemaker (LP)
7/17 - Messer - "Name (Goo Goo Dolls Cover)" (single)
7/19 - JAiRUS - "Groove" (single)
7/20 - Griffin Winton - "Even in the Light" (single)
7/21 - Dominique Pruitt -Prayers for Rain (LP)
7/21 - Lleuwen - "Rhosod" (single)
7/22 - BOYS NOIZE - "Nude (feat. Tommy Cash)"/"XPress Yourself" (single)
7/22 - Cole Scheifele - The Hideaways (LP)
7/23 - John McTigue III - It's About Time (LP)
7/23 - Art Schop - Starguide (LP)
7/23 - Nevaeh Sky. - "Get Up" (single)
7/23 - Lucas Aaron - Domino (LP)
7/23 - Amy Ray Band - "Chuck Will's Widow" (single)
7/23 - Power of Dreams - Auslander (LP)
7/23 - Eve Goodman - "Wave Upon Wave" (single)
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