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It is time for another Featured Friday Playlist here at E2TG. Today's list is slightly shorted than last week, but it is jam packed with some great music from old friends and new favorites from Nashville and around the world. We start with a brand new song from a long-time E2TG favorite.
Featured Friday Playlist (song 1)
1. "Where Do I Belong" by Sara Syms
E2TG favorite Sara Syms will be releasing her new album the Darkest Night soon. Today, she releases the forth single from that album.
The gospel influenced “Where Do I Belong”, asks an existential question in The Darkest Light’s journey. Syms shares, "The past few years have flipped humanity on its side, inviting us all to evaluate everything. Whether it’s where you live, what you’re doing for work, who your tribe is, or even what you are doing on this planet, it’s an insecurity and vulnerability humans share. We all want to be a part of something greater than ourselves. We all want to belong."I cannot wait for the album. The songs released so far have exceded my already high expectations.
Produced by Ari Teitel, and supported by members of Sweet Crude, Snarky Puppy, Cha Wa, The Dirty Dozen and Naughty Professor - the album reflects the diversity of today’s New Orleans sound, everything from jazz, soul, gospel, americana and blues to the contemporary, genre-blending work of Lucinda Williams and the ambient soundscapes of Daniel Lanois.
Check out the rest of the playlist of Spotify and we have more highlights below the jump.
Featured Friday Playlist
Featured Friday Playlist (songs 2- 14)
2. "Waiting on the End of the World with You" by Alec Lang
I first met Alec Lang at one of Darrin Bradbury's songwriter nights at Dee's - it was few months after Alec moved to Nashville from Iowa. He performed that night, and I was blown away by his songs. He released a new single today. If you've never heard Alec's music - this is as good a place as any to start. If you already know his music, you've likely already listened to this. I haven't made an official announcement, but look for Alec and Darrin (with a guest TBD) on June 8 6pm at The 5 Spot.
3. "The Heart of the Woman You Love" by Bobby Corbin
I met Massachusetts native Bobby Corbin before everything shut down. At first, I met him as a fellow music fan at shows by Darrin Bradbury and others. When I finally heard him perform his own songs, I was duly impressed. He released this new single last week, and I am a fan.
4. "My Love" by Nathan Kalish
I somehow did not meet Nathan Kalish until the pandemic shut everything down, and he released Songs for Nobody. I later learned this is because he is a true road warrior. Since then, I have been fortunate enough to see him perform his songs a number of times, and I am fan. This is his latest single.
5. "Treading Water" by Dude Safari
I believer we have featured every single this UK band has put out since their debut release "Bug Hunter" in March 2021. Just a great fun, grungy rock band.
6. "Trust Fund Troubadour" by Mick Mullin
Next up, we have a new single from Nashville native Mick Mullin. He never minces words when singing about his town and the challenges it is facing in recent years of unrestrained growth - which doesn't always equal progress.
7. "Dial Tone" by Andrew Leahey & the Homestead
After releasing a number of singles in recent weeks and months, Andrew Leahey and the Homestead just released American Static, Vol. 2 - which solidifies their position as of one of Music City's best bands.
8. "Sleeepwalkers" by John Calvin Abney
9. "No One Had What We Have" by Levi Parham
Next up, new singles from a pair of great Oklahoma songwriters. Several years back, I became aware of the strong bond that Nashville and Tulsa's songwriting communities share. It was during this time, that I first encountered the music of John Calvin Abney and Levi Parham. Coincidentally they both released new singles over the last couple of weeks, and it was a good reminder of how good they both are.
10. "Bun E. Carlos" by Silver Lake 66
E2TG first became aware of Portland Oregon duo Silver Lake 66 in 2019 when they released their second album Ragged Heart. We immediately became fans. They have a new album The Space Between Us -due out in June, and today they release the first single (and it is a banger as the kids say). Named after the originally drummer of Cheap Trick - the song really hit me hard.
11. "Child's Play" by Jack Shit
Up next, we have the first single on Devil's Tower Records by the folk/punk/rock singer-songwriter with the name I can't say on the radio... however, at first listen, I think I can play this song.
12. "Standing in the Shadows" by Pete Mancini
Killing the Old Ways - the new album by NYC singer-songwriter Pete Mancini is out now. It was recorded in Water Valley, Mississippi (where E2TG faves Bark recently moved) and was produced by Matt Patton of Drive-by Truckers and Bronson Tew. We have already featured at least one of the pre-release singles.
13. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by A Little Farther West
A Little Farther West are an Oklahoma based husband and wife duo. They will be releasing their new album Vaya Con Dios in June. They just released this stunning cover of the Hal David and Burt Bacharach song written for the 1962 James Stewart and John Wayne film of the same name.
14. "Ukrainian National Anthem in Dub (feat. Jon Klein)" by Jah Wobble & The Ukrainians
And we close with a song for Ukraine - by the original bassist for Public Image Limited - a dub version of the Ukrainian National Anthem. A great place to stop.
But the playlist continues with a bunch more great songs- check it out.
NO VIDEO PLAYLIST TODAY
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
5/04 - Various Artists - Dear Who? (triute to Jawbreaker) (LP)
5/04 - The Best Around - "Didn't Come Here to Count 'em" (single)
5/05 - Ponderosa Glee Boys - Demi Gods of Bedlam (LP)
5/06 - Pete Mancini - Killing the Old Ways (LP)
5/06 - Esc - Unauthorized Passenger (LP)
5/06 - Valorie Miller - Only the Killer Would Know (LP)
5/06 - A Little Farther West - "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (single)
5/06 - Drop Top Alibi - "Dylsong" (single)
5/06 - Captain of the Lost Waves - Mysterium Tremendum (LP)
5/06 - Tony Jay - Hey There Flower (LP)
5/06 - Steve Casper & Cowboy Angst - Hey! (LP)
5/06 - Johnny Ray Daniels - Whatever You Need (LP)
5/06 - Actual Form - Hyperzone (LP)
5/06 - Mz Michl - Animus v Anima (EP)
5/06 - Orchester Der Kulturen - A World Symphony (LP)
5/06 - Sara Syms - "Where Do I Belong" (single)
5/06 - Doja Cuts - "Here We Are (feat. Carlton Jumel Smith)" (single)
5/06 - Tone Ranger - Desert Rose (LP)
5/06 - Bas Beenackers - "Reason" (single)
5/06 - The Builders and The Butchers - Hell & High Water (LP)
5/06 - Caterpillars - Frontier for the Fallen (LP)
5/06 - Alec Lang - "Waiting on the End of the World With You" (single)
5/06 - Chuck Yoakum - The Paisley Garden Project (LP)
5/06 - James Lee Baker - Impressions (LP)
5/06 - Zach Willdee - Heart That Ain't Tame (LP)
NEXT WEEK
5/13 - Steve Forbert - Moving Through America (LP)
5/13 - David Olney - Evermore (LP)
5/13 - Joel Tyler Wall - F.I.T.H. (LP)
5/13 - Few Miles South - "Doggone" (single)
5/13 - Christopher Lockett - At the Station (LP)
5/13 - This Frontier Needs Heroes - "Ten Bullets in the Back" (single)
5/13 - Curtail - When the Sway Sets (LP)
5/13 - Careless Light - "Is This Ghost" (single)
5/13 - Wayne Willingham - Temptation Row (LP)
5/13 - Monophonics - Sage Motel (LP)
5/13 - Lee Rogers - Gamebird (LP)
5/13 - Ivan Nahem - Crawling Through the Grass (LP)
5/13 - Album Club - Album Club (LP)
5/13 - Green Sky Accident - Daytime TV (LP)
UPCOMING
5/14 - Caterpillars - Frontier for the Fallen (LP)
5/18 - Silver Lining - Go Out Nowhere (LP)
5/20 - Secret Emchy Society - Gold Country/Country Gold (LP)
5/20 - Seth Witcher - "We're All Human" (single)
5/20 - Bryon White - Solo Album !? (LP)
5/20 - Alysia Kraft - "Hamilton Pool" (single)
5/20 - Cheryl Cawood - Bullet in the Cabin Wall (LP)
5/20 - Starter Jackets - Dead Malls (LP)
5/20 - The Yohawks - The Yohawks (LP)
5/20 - Separate Bed - "The Standalone (feat. Mari Kvien Brunvoll)" (single)
5/20 - Joey Quiñones - "There Must Be Something" b/w "Love Me Like You Used To" (single)
5/20 - Jeremy Joyce - Street Poet (LP)
5/21 - Danny Henry - Off Vaudeville (LP)
5/26 - Sons of Descent - "Roomful of Heroes" (single)
5/27 - James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band - Highlights of The Low Nights (LP)
5/27 - Shanna in a Dress - Robot (LP)
5/27 - Sea Driver - "Group Mentality" (single)
6/03 - Nicki Bluhm - Avondale Drive (LP)
6/03 - Old Moon - Cities of the Plain (LP)
6/03 - Matt York - Gently Used (LP)
6/03 - Post-Skeleton - Everyone You Know Is Alone (EP)
6/03 - Extra Arms - What is Even Happening Right Now? (LP)
6/03 - Bleeding Hearts - Riches to Rags (LP)
6/03 - Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus - Going the Distance (LP)
6/03 - Ryan Lee Crosby - Winter Hill Blues (LP)
6/03 - Wes Collins - Jabberwockies (LP)
6/04 - Widespread Haze - Move (LP)
6/10 - Flox - Square (LP)
6/10 - David Olney - Nevermore (LP)
6/10 - Belot - Harmless Fun (EP)
6/10 - Vishwa Ganesh - "A Sailor's Tale" (single)
6/10 - Rod Picott - Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows (LP)
6/10 - Ryan Shelkett - Someone Becomes No One (LP)
6/10 - A Little Farther West - Vaya Con Dios (LP)
6/17 - London Plane - Bright Black (LP)
6/17 - Silver Lake 66 - The Space Between Us (LP)
6/17 - RUINS - Pure at Heart (LP)
6/17 - DruiZ - "Dime" (single)
6/17 - The Damn Quails - Clouding Up Your City (LP)
6/24 - Andrew Weiss and Friends - Sunglass & Ash (LP)
6/24 - Lindsay Clark - Carpe Noctem (LP)
6/24 - Art d'Ecco - After the Headrush (LP)
6/24 - Rusty Tinder - Alchemy Road (LP)
6/24 - David McClaymont - Centuries (LP)
7/29 - Monica Taylor - Trains, Rivers, and Trails (LP)
8/05 - Monica Queen - Stop That Girl (LP)
8/05 - Port Sulphur - Kone Trips (LP)
9/06 - The Grey A - D8 Ur Elders (LP)
9/30 - False Heads - Sick Moon (LP)
RECENT
4/01 - Paula Boggs Band - Janus (LP)
4/01- El No - Nothing is Possible (LP)
4/01 - Whimsical - Melt (LP)
4/01 - Brian Damage - Shit for Brians (LP)
4/01 - This Frontier Needs Heroes - "Not Gonna Write a Song" (single)
4/01 - Lesser Care - Underneath, Beside Me (LP)
4/01 - The Golden Glows - On Moonlight and Rain (LP)
4/01 - The Bloodstreams - "Clockwork Man" (single)
4/01- Nicki Bluhm - "Love to Spare" (single)
4/01 - Dave Cope and the Sass - Julee (LP)
4/02 - Conscious Route - Pyramid (LP)
4/08 - Dillon Vanders - Wildfires (LP)
4/08 - The Hengles - "Don't Say It Isn't True" (single)
4/08 - James Walker - "Expectations" (single)
4/08 - Reardon Love - "Enfant Terrible" (single)
4/08 - Mark Stewart - VS (LP)
4/08 - Rebecca Jenkins - "War on Mother Nature" (single)
4/08 - Echoes from Oblivion - "Vices" (single)
4/08 - The Singles - L.O.V.E. from the Santa Cruz Archives '82-'85 (LP)
4/08 - Roxi Copland - I Come From Crazy (EP)
4/12 - Jessye DeSilva - Landscapes (LP)
4/14 - indifferentmonkey - "Space Race" (single)
4/15 - Derek Vanderhorst - Wildflower (LP)
4/15 - David Quinn - Country Fresh (LP)
4/15 - James Edwyn & the Borrowed Band - "Sometimes We Fade" (single)
4/15 - Beth Ann McDowell - The Sim is Real (LP)
4/15 - Thyra Hilden - Trapped in Dream (EP)
4/15 - Eugenius - Crisis (LP)
4/15 - Luguber - Tabula Rasa (EP)
4/15 - Michael McAdam - Tremolo (LP)
4/15 - St. Dukes - St. Dukes (LP)
4/15 - The Warmbabies - Let's Live Underground (LP)
4/15 - New Norde - Whatever's Clever (EP)
4/19 - Lindsay Clark - "Roses in the Sky (feat. William Tyler)" (single)
4/20 - London Plane - "Bright Black" (single)
4/22 - Aaron Skiles - Wreckage from the Fire (LP)
4/22 - Sons - Sweet Boy (LP)
4/22 - GmBt Life - 10 Minutes (LP)
4/22 - Monica Queen - "I Gave You Love" (single)
4/22 - Vukovar - "Place to Rest" (single)
4/22 - Kevin Farge - Halcyon Days (LP)
4/22 - Audrey Bridgeman - Fire In Your Soul (LP)
4/22 - Richard Gjems - The YouTube Sessions 2020/21 (LP)
4/22 - Trout Fishing in America - Safe House (LP)
4/22 - Catnyp - Catnyp IIII (LP)
4/22 - John Salaway - "Toxic Lovesick (feat. Chelsea Gilliland)" (single)
4/22 - Curse of Lono - People in Cars (LP)
4/22 - Christine Sweeney - Heart in a Hurry (LP)
4/22 - Evan Barber - Until the Thunder (LP)
4/22 - Jon Chi - River of Marigolds (LP)
4/23 - Ov Stars - Tuesdays (EP)
4/26 - Brown Bird - Live from Newport (LP)
4/28 - POP ETC - "Slips Away (feat. Jason Schwartzman) (single)
4/29 - Peter Donovan - This Better Be Good (LP)
4/29 - Rid of Me - Whatever (EP)
4/29 - Port Sulphur - "Kone Trips" (single)
4/29 - Drowningman - Later Day Saints (EP)
4/29 - Sano Hill - "Starting Over" (single)
4/29 - Holy Coves - "Desert Storm" (single)
4/29 - Frog Eyes - The Bees (LP)
4/29 - Parabola West - Stars Will Light the Way (LP)
4/29 - Family Shiloh - At the Cold Copper Ranch (LP)
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