Wild Wednesday Morning Shuffle - Mexican Eagle Mix

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I am back.  I had an extra extended long weekend - to recuperate from whatever it is I need to recuperate from.    I am back and it is Wild Wednesday.  We have a pretty wild one today.

By the way, some behind the scenes technical information.  I got a new phone over the long weekend, and so this was officially the first shuffle off the new phone.  I did have to recreate my playlist. So the Trending Thursday shuffle tomorrow will be the first from the new Trending playlist.  I had to recreate it from memory.

I have not tried to recreate the Featured Friday playlist, and I am thinking of taking a different approach with that one. More on that later.

Let's get right to the shuffle!

 Tim Henderson @ Kerrville Folk Festival Photo: Bill Nash

Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Put the Blame on VTR Mix

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Songs of the Road is a pretty awesome concept - take a songwriter on a relatively short road trip, have them write a song along the way, and then record the song and play it live that same day.  SongCraft Presents and Acoustic Café have teamed up with Ford Motor Company to make this happen.  I had the great pleasure of premiering the latest session on No Depression this morning.  I really hope you will check it out.  HERE.  Ear to the Ground readers may recognize SongCraft Present's Ben Arthur - who works with the featured songwriters.  Ben's own music has been featured here several times.  Matthew Hendershot of our very good friends, The End Men also works on the video side of the project. 

Today's shuffle is a real mixed bag...  so let's get to it....

Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Feels so Good Mix

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Back in the morning....   A warmer, but still cool morning, sweet tunes and a inexplicable sense of optimism.  It's mid-week and we have an honest to goodness music shuffle to start off your day.


Nashville's own Ben Folds has reunited with his four er... two cohorts known as the Ben Folds Five for a new album and some live dates.  Here is the title track of The Sound of the Life of the Mind which finds Ben and the boys in fine form.

Our friends from Connecticut, The Grimm Generation are back with a brand new EP called Coming Home, which we will be discussing in greater detail soon.  For now, this morning's shuffle brought up the lead-off track from the record, Blink, I'm Gone.  On this track, the band continues to cut their own unique and classic sounding path through the landmine filled landscape that is the modern music industry.  Blink, I'm Gone has great sounding music including a Spanish sounding guitar and a hook that's to die for.

Ann and Nancy Wilson were not the founders of the band, Heart, but make no mistake for better or worse, the band is for all intents and purposes the Wilson sisters.  Now, over 30 years since they made some of their best music, Heart are back with a new album called Fanatic. I can't say I was ever a big Heart fan, but I do remember listening to a lot of their 70s era music.  I decided to check out Fanatic after reading a post from a Facebook friend who had been a big Heart fan and who had long ago fallen out of love with them.  He was raving about the new record.  So, here is the title track to Fanatic.

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