E2TG 5/9/2022 - Music City Monday - You Got It Mix (Wildfire Remix)

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Another week begins, and with it another Music City Monday shuffle. 

Also, be sure to check out this week's Featured Friday Playlist - which you can find embedded below. 

 

    Featured Friday Playlist

E2TG 12/13/2021 - Music City Monday - Keeping My Distance Mix (Out of Place Remix)

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The year is winding down.  Coming up tomorrow on Ear to the Ground radio, I will be presenting part 1 of my year-end special featuring some of my favorite music released in 2021. 

Then, Thursday, I will be presenting the 2nd Annual Seasons Greetings from Nashville holiday spectacular. (okay, fine, I didn't call it that last year but whatever). Some great holiday tunes by Nashville artists past and present. 

Next Tuesday, will be the first annual Ear to the Ground holiday special - some of the great new holiday releases which have come my way. 

Now, it's time for today's Music City Monday shuffle 

 

    Featured Friday Playlist

E2TG 8/30/2021 - Music City Monday - Said and Done Mix (Black Angel Remix)

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Heading into another week and soon another month.  The news is heavy.  Music remains a refuge for me, and I hope for you too. Enjoy! Be part of the solution. 

Featured Friday Playlist recap (part 2 - the adventure continues) (songs 13-16):

13. "Weather Vane" by Emperor of Ice Cream

Irish band Emperor of Ice Cream - recently released their long-shelved debut album nearly 30 years after forming. This is the follow-up single, and my introduction to the band. I dig it. 

14. "Crazy Game of Phobias" by Jata

Next up, we have the title track from the forthcoming debut EP by this synth-loving pop artist from Italy. 

15. "Opposite Faces" by Thadeus Gonzalez

Next up, we have the title track from the recently released third album by this singer-songwriter from Oakland,California. 

16. "Liar" by Mary Jennings

And we close this section of music with another track from the recent Matriarch album by Nashville's Mary Jennings. 

 

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E2TG - 3/2/2020 - Magnolia Roads Hoedown Update - Music City Monday - Airwaves Mix (Happiness Remix)

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Magnolia Roads American Roots Hoedown V - April 25 (Hoedown Preparty April 24)

Super-excited for the Fifth Magnolia Roads American Roots Hoedown. This year will be an all-day affair at The 5 Spot on Saturday April 25, and a Hoedown Pre-party on Friday April 24 at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge.  There have been some changes since the last time I teased this event. Check out the posters below - lots of E2TG favorites in the line-up this year. I am going to be co-emceeing on Saturday. 

Much more to come!

Music City Monday Shuffle: 

Today's shuffle - down below, is our weekly Music City Monday Shuffle.  The idea for this shuffle sprung from the same place as my new radio show - Greetings from Nashville - which can be heard Thursday's at 6am on WXNA- Nashville. 

    Featured Friday Playlist
In case you missed it on Friday, we have a new Featured Friday Playlist up on Spotify.  Follow, listen, buy the music if you dig it. 

E2TG 1/13/2020 - Music City Monday and More - Side of The Road Mix (Side of the Road Remix)

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I hope everyone had a good weekend. We are back, and today mark's the return of Music City Monday.  To refresh your memory. This is a massive, every expanding playlist of new and not-so-new songs by artists with a connection to Nashville (and occasionally artist who I thought had a connection to Nashville but didn't - oops!).  The Shuffle is below.

Some notes about this new incarnation of E2TG: 

1. Show listings: I have attempted, in the past, to compile a gig guide/concert calendar, whatever, and found it was too daunting a task.  Typically, I highlight upcoming events that are on my mind. If you want an event featured, please e-mail me at e2tgmusic@gmail.com and I will do what I can. Provide as much information as you can (Who, what, when, where, how much, what time etc.) and a graphic if you have one.

2. Featured Friday: A Spotify Playlist that refreshes every week - updates usually on Friday. Please follow. Basically, a compilation of new and recently released music that has caught my attention.

3. Release listing: This is a non-comprehensive list of recent, current, and upcoming releases (singles, EPs, and LPs).  If your release is not listed (even I have know you very well) e-mail me at e2tgmusic@gmail.com with the name and release date. If you have a preferred link - send me that. 
I compiled the list from recent e-mails and then have been adding releases as they occur to me. I plan to add links (if available) soon. Eventually, I will start rotating off the older "recent" releases, but right now, I am catching up from the end of the year. I also will likely started adding some sort of commentary/mini-review (but not really)/information about some of the releases.


Events of Note: 

Tonight, Madison Guild Monday at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge will be hosted by Maynard and the Musties and featuring Javi Jones (of The Big Dumb), Steve Knudson, Val Levine, Paisley Fields, Luella, and more.

Tomorrow night is my birthday, and I will celebrating at The 5 Spot.  The early show is week two of the India Ramey Residency with Tim Easton, Wild Ponies, and a Special Surprise Guest.  $2 Tuesday follows with Anana Kaye, Derek Hoke and ? (but it is always a wonderful lineup). Come hang with me if you are in town.

Album cover of Bob Lewis' End of an Error

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Music City Monday Morning Shuffle - A Hundred Times Yeah! Mix

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We are back!  Let's see... Friday, I headed to Tennessee Brew Works to catch a pair of Kerrville New Folk Festival winners: Aaron Smith from Arkansas and Justin Farren from California as they kicked off a run of shows up the East Coast. Great beer, great food, and great hangs with new and old friends.

From there, I headed to The Basement to catch Matthew Paige (of Blackfoot Gypsies) - I believe my first time seeing him solo - he was fantastic, then Darrin Bradbury, and then Jeremy Ivey (recently signed to ANTI records (as was Darrin) with his band The Extraterrestrials. A wonderful night of music and another reminder of why Nashville is still a cool place to be a music fan.

Now, it is time to jump into another week of shuffles, and as always, we kick things off with shuffle from my Music City Monday Spotify playlist - compromised of new and older music from people who do or did once call Nashville home.

Let's just shuffle!

Wednesday Morning Music - Crossroads Mix

Day 2 without music for my morning walk... thought I would enjoy the sounds of the city - cars splashing through puddles left by a hard morning shower, a car horn as a bus makes a right turn just as the light turns green in the other direction and show tunes coming from the traffic light control box on the corner.

Opened up FB and my sources had some good selections this a.m.:

Chris Frantz offered up this appropriately funky start for the morning with the classic One Nation Under a Groove by Funkadelic.

(click this pic to purchase and download the compilation young soul rebles feat. Mica Parks, War, The O'Jays, Sylvester, Parliament and the aforementioned Funkadelic track.)

Next up Will Kimbrough (Will & the Bushmen etc.) offers up his lick of the day which happens to be a Funky Banjo solo in E.  Kimbrough, besides being the Will in the Mobile, Alabama based Bushmen, has been in great bands like Bisquits and Daddy (with Tommy Womack of Government Cheese fame).  Most recently, he has been playing with Emmylou Harris.

 

(click on the album cover to purchase and download Gawk the classic album by Will and the Bushmen featuring one of my all-time favorite songs Neil)

Finally - Bill Lloyd (Foster and Lloyd) offers up this treat from Slim Gaillard - Cement Mixer

  

(click on the album cover to purchase and download the album Cement Mixer by Slim Gaillard)