E2TG 3/24/2020 - Keeping On - Paranoid Mix (Lonely Nights Remix)

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We venture forth into this brave new world... separated by distance and physical isolation, but trying to keep it together and stay connected by all of the technology that we both despise and rely upon...

I'll be honest, I am feeling disconnected and unfocused and fearful and lonely and confused and uncertain and unmotivated... but I am keeping on with E2TG as best as I can. I am behind on adding songs and updating the new release schedule. I am still working regular hours - just from home, but time is not the problem. Maybe it never was...

Anyway, thanks for sticking with me. One day, this time of quarantine and self-isolation and safer-at-home will pass. And while it still uncertain when that will be or what the next, next will look like, I will be here doing what I can.

    Featured Friday Playlist

Wild Wednesday Morning Shuffle - It Won't Bend On Its Own Mix

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Just a heads up, I will be taking a week off from regular E2TG posting next week. Be sure to follow our Facebook page (link above) as I may be posting some flashback shuffles from prior years, and keep you eyes out at the end of next week for a very special Video premiere.

Meanwhile, this week still has some life in it, and we might just have a song premiere later this week - so don't touch that dial.. or mouse...

It's Wednesday and you know what that means!  Time to get wild!  Let's shuffle!

Featured Friday Morning Shuffle - Sop it Up Mix

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I am kind of short on time today, so let's just jump headlong into the Featured Friday shuffle.

I think I'm pretty much done explaining what each days shuffle means so if you have questions, ask.

Friday Morning Music Shuffle - Alternate Reality Mix

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Shuffle after the jump:

Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle - Easy Listenin' Mix

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Well congrats again to Walking for Pennies and Nena Anderson for being voted Bands of the Months for November/December combined.  Next, we turn our attention to the 2nd Annual Ear 2 the Ground Band of the Year Poll.  Throughout this year, we've had some epic battles for Band of the Month.  Who can forget the nail biting photo finish from January when the mighty, mighty MAKAR edged out The End Men, so the battle between South of Ramona and Sci-Fi Romance with the boys from Utah coming out on top.  Or the no-holds-bar Texas death match when Upstate NY band Skeletons in the Piano narrowing defeated Georgia's own Killing Kuddles.  Well, soon all of these bands and more of your favorite E2TG featured Artists will be pitted in a Battle Royale.  Remember, no biting, eye gouging or hitting below the belt.  And mostly remember, our main purpose is to have another opportunity to present some of the great music that has reached our ears this year. So keep it clean and have fun.

Before we jump into  the Band of the Year battle, we'll take a look back at our inaugural Band of the Year Poll.

But, now, we have a Morning Shuffle to present so, let's stop jibber jabbering and get to it... 
Shuffle after the jump...





MORNING SHUFFLE

I tend to  think of The Sea and Cake as Easy Listenin' Music for the cool kids.  And, I don't mean that in a bad way at all. There is an appeal to music that mellows you out.  It's why so many alternative boys and girls take guilty and secret pleasure in listening to the classic Easy Listenin' songs from the 70s.  The Sea and Cake provide the mellowness free of any guilt.  Up on the North Shore from 2011's The Moonlight Butterfly is a good introduction to the band.  

 

Former Drive By Trucker, Jason Isbell along with his fabulous band, the 400 Unit, are tearing it up on the Americana rock circuit.  In the shuffle today, we have a bonus track from the Deluxe edition of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit album - a cover of Big Star's When My Baby's Beside Me which was on Number 1 Record.

By 1987s See How We Are, Billy Zoom had departed from X and was replaced on the album by ex-Blaster Dave Alvin.  Alvin left shortly after that and was replaced by Tony Gilkyson for a subsequent tour.  See How We Are found the band fully embracing the emerging Americana/Alt-Country sound which had been hinted at in their earlier. (I contend that even their early punk days, Billy Zoom's rockabilly guitar style was a natural precursor to the later more explicitly countryesque sound). Today's shuffle contains When It Rains from See How We Are.

 

Could not find a video for When It Rains - here is an early version of the album's title track

We'll close out today's Morning Shuffle with a Classic from Hank Williams - Hey Good Lookin'.

 

Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Funky-Ass Car Mix

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If you haven't yet, and are eligible to, please vote tomorrow.

We have a whopping six songs in today's shuffle - so let's get to it!


If Rhode Island and Alt-Country don't make much sense to you, then you need to familiarize yourself with Providence band Deer Tick, and it will all become clear.  I, myself, was late coming into the Deer Tick fold, but I've been hooked ever since that first listen.  Today we open up a jam packed music shuffle with the opening song from the band's debut album - War Elephant.  The song is Ashamed. 

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are like an unstoppable force. Their album Here We Rest was one of the best albums of 2011.  This time, we go back a couple of years to the predecessor - the self-titled album was the first to feature the  400 Unit.  Today, we have Soldiers Get Strange.

All Mod Cons by The Jam is consistently one of my favorite albums of all time. It was released thirty-four years ago this past Saturday, and man oh man does it hold up well.  Today we have the second song on the album To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time).

 

Elizabeth Cook was born in Wildwood, Florida.  Today, we have a song from Welder her critically acclaimed Don Was produced album which was released back in 2010. The subject of this song is the Chevy vehicle which helped me to get a letter to the editor published in the original print edition of Film Threat magazine.  In case you weren't aware, the El Camino has appeared in an incredible number of motion pictures over the years. The list is too long to mention, but if you watch movies with an eye out for the car/truck thing, you will begin to notice a trend.  Anyway, Elizabeth Cook's song is really good.

Detroit Rapper Danny Brown released a non-album single earlier this year.  Grown Up has a sweet, nostalgic bent to it.  It's good stuff.

And we close out this long set of music with the opening track off The Plimsouls second album, Everywhere At Once.  Shaky City highlights the band's signature brand of power-pop. 

 

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Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle - Honky Tonk Angel Mix

It's been week of loss in the extended music community.  Last week, original Jason and The Scorchers' drummer, Perry Baggs died at the age of 50.

And the yesterday, we lost Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Bob Babbitt of The Funk Brothers and the legendary Queen of Country Music Kitty Wells.  Imagine the jam session going on in heaven right now...

 

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Moving forward, we added a bunch of music to our playlist yesterday, and we shuffled up some of the latest adds for you (a rousing selection of old and new music).

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit were one of the highlights of 2011's Record Store Day shows at Grimey's Used and Pre-loved Music.  At that time, Here We Rest was a brand, spanking new record and was already getting the wide-spread attention it deserved.  Today, we have a track off that album called We've Met.

 

Next, we have a song off the debut album from Bluegrass legends, The Dillards.  The Dillards played The Darlings on the Andy Griffith Show. Reuben's Train is an arrangement of a traditional song. 

 

Next up, we have the 1958 hit single from Rock 'n' Roll pioneer, the late Conway Twitty. It's Only Make Believe which was on his first album, Conway Twitty Sings.

  

And finally, shifting gears pretty dramatically, we have a new song from Thurston Moore's new band, Chelsea Light Moving.  The already released one song, Burroughs as a free download, and now we have a second... Groovy and Linda is out now.

Go here for the downloads and updates:

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