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Just as a follow-up to yesterday's post, I do need to give a shout out too, to Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge, The Basement, The Basement East, Bowery Vault, 3rd & Lindsay, and several other local venues which have provided many memories over the years and hopefully for years to come. The Basement East, as many of you know, was decimated by the March 3 tornado.
Dee's has been running live streams since near the beginning of the quarantine. When Nashville entered Phase 3 of their reopening, Dee's started some live shows with a limited, socially distant audience, table service, and a mask mandate. Unfortunately, due not in a small part, the irresponsible Broadway venues, Nashville's case count has skyrocketed and Nashville moved back to Phase 3, and now it appears that bars will be closed until at least the end of July.
There are a variety of ways to support your favorite venues who are struggling. I want all my favorite venues to be there when it is safe to attend live music again.
And now, songs 16-20 of this week's Featured Friday Place - a real international segment of music.
16. "Sacred Core" by Mayflower Madame
Our world tour starts in Norway, with the heavy psychedelic/post punk band Mayflower Madame. We have featured them a few times before. This is the latest single from their album Prepared for a Nightmare which was released in March. Cool stuff.17. "Need Some Soul" by Black Paisley
Next, we head to Stockholm, Sweden with some more straight ahead rock music from Black Paisley. This is a real catchy song. I dig it.18. "Hollow (Project Regeneration)" by Static X
Our only U.S. stop on this whirlwind world tour, and it is a doozy. Long-running and platinum selling industrial metal band Static X are back with a brand new album which features the Wisconsin Death Trip line-up. The album features some of the last known recordings of the late Wayne Static. Happy to be on the promo list for this one.19. "Easteria" by Monsieur Minimal
Off to Athens - Greece that is with another track from composer and artist Monsieur Minimal. The song has an Eastern Mediterranean influence with some 70s psychedelic fusion. Great sound.20. "Waves" by Dust
We close out this segment of music with a comprehensive summer song from Italy. The song manages to encapsulate an entire summer of emotions from boundless fun and abandon to the melancholy that comes with the final days of the season. A great ending to this segment of music.Tomorrow - we wrap up our review of the Playlist with the final four songs...
Featured Friday Playlist
