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In case you missed it, I premiered the new video from Ben de la Cour this morning. Check it out HERE.
I have a long overdue album review coming soon and hopefully more on the horizon... one can only hope.
Last night was another fantastic $2 Tuesday at The 5 Spot. Carson McHone, Erica Blinn, Joel Adam Russell, and more including Allen Thompson filling in for Derek Hoke and playing with Derek's band (everyone wearing Derek Hoke-like cowboy hats). Even DJ Tim Hibbs got in on the action singing one of Hoke's signature songs, "Lonely Street".
Last Friday, E2TG 2014 Artist of the Year, Darrin Bradbury made a last minute surprise appearance on the stage at City Winery Nashville. Just last night, E2TG 2015 Artist of the Year, Jon Latham appeared on stage at City Winery Atlanta. I wish I could say that I am prophetic, but the fact is, I am really proud of everything both of them are accomplishing. Both Darrin and Jon are going to perform in official showcases for Americana Fest!
Now, it is Wednesday... you know... when we get Wild because we are fed up with the work week and realize we still have three more days to go... Check out the shuffle, and see if it is "wild" enough for you...
Showing posts with label Everything but the Girl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Everything but the Girl. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Flights of Fancy Mix
Thanks for visiting and reading Ear to the Ground. We know you have a wide choice of music blogs to read, and we are glad you chose to spend some time with us.
There is this moment (at least for me) in blogging when you realize that people other than your immediate circle of friends and acquaintances are reading your posts. This is the moment (at least for me) where everything can come off the rails and an inflated ego can cause me to think I need to say something profound and important. As when people say, that they enjoy my blog or call it "cool" or offer praise of my writing, and I think I better hit a home run with every post or I will lose this admiration. The truth (at least for me) is that I began writing just what was on my mind - just narrating the stream of thoughts going through my brain. Fortunately, should be ego get out of whack, I have a teen-aged daughter to bring me back to earth. "Dad, stop talking, my friends are here."
I try and fail not to get to caught up in the Blog Stats so readily available, but it is interesting to see the search streams which get people to my site. Of course, I can't always tell if they stick around. These search streams range from the insightful to the strange. More than one recent visitor got here from the search string "Sad Easter". To my knowledge I did not write about a sad Easter. Also, there have been (over time) a number of visits via a search for Zombie Apocalypse Music Shuffle (or some variation). Now, I did have a post which was subtitled Zombie Apocalypse Mix but like many of my posts, the song shuffle associated with that title did not have tangible connection to the subtitle, and so I think maybe those who came here from that search might have been disappointed????
Enough - to today's song shuffle:
San Francisco's The Fresh and Onlys are up first with a newish track called, Do What I Came to Do which is right now available on a free Mexican Summer sampler at Amazon. The picture above links to that sampler. Did I mention it's free!
Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks) has a new band called Off! We featured the song Upside Down earlier. That song is on the first 4 EPs release which you can find above (the album with the Raymond Pettibone cover art. Today's track, King Kong Brigade is from the forthcoming self-titled first studio album. You can grab the MP3 of the song over here. Off! will be touring with the reunited Refused this summer.
The music of Always The Light by Band of the Week alums ELIKA continues to amaze and delight me. We Had it All is the luscious offering in today's shuffle. Always the Light is on Amazon using the picture above (little girl with the balloon).
And finally, continuing yesterday's cover theme. We have English Rose a lovely Paul Weller penned ballad originally on the Jam's seminal release All Mod Cons. We have the classic Jam compilation Snap! linked above. The cover is by Hull band Everything but the Girl and if off of Ambition Volumes I & II: The History of Cherry Red Records which is linked above also.
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