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While I am still smiling, thinking out last week's kick off to the E2TG 7 Year Anniversary Residency, it is time to shift our attention to this week's show. And what a show!
Once again, I going to recommend you get there early - things will kick off around 6:15-6:20 or so with a solo set from an absolute favorite songwriter of mine -
Ben de la Cour. His latest album is The High Cost of Living Strange, and if don't have it - well, you need to fix that situation right away. Ben is about to start a big tour of Canada, but he agreed to do Thursday show before leaving.
Whenever people ask me why I keep doing E2TG after seven years, my answer inevitably is about the incredible music I've heard that I might have missed if I didn't do this blog and the amazing people I have met and gotten to know.
The End Men are the prototypical example of both of those things. When I first heard their music toward the end of 2011 (the year E2TG started), I was completely blown away. That their is music out there as good as what they were doing that I had not heard, is my motivation to keep my ears to the ground. Over the years, as I have gotten to know Matthew Hendershot and Livia Ranalli, they have become two of my favorite people. Badass musicians and all-around great people. The End Men are based in Brooklyn. I've seen them twice here in Nashville, but it has been a few years, and I am so excited to show them off to some of my favorite Nashville friends.
Rounding out the music will be
Ted Drozdowski's Psychedelic Circus. If you have never heard psychedelic blues music, you need to witness their set. If you have seen psychedelic blues but have never seen Ted and his amazing band, you are only partially prepared for what you are going to see and hear. If you have seen Ted perform, but not seen his latest incarnation of his band, you are still in for surprises and delights. I have grateful to be able to help Ted celebrate a milestone birthday yesterday, and the celebration will continue Thursday!
All this, and I will reading a short passage from my novel, The Drift. I will have copies for sale, and I will try to do a better job of being near the merch table (this is new to me).
It all goes down - at The 5 Spot on Forrest Avenue in East Nashville at 6:00pm. A low, low $5.00 cover.
Meanwhile, we still have the normal course of E2TG business.... it is Monday - the day when we explore some of the best of what Music City (Nashville, Tennessee) has to offer (past and present - including music by current and former Nashville residents that may or may not have been made here in Nashville).
