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Nashville really is a beautiful wonderful city for live music. There is way too much awesome stuff for one person to see anywhere near it all.
Friday evening, I hung out the WXNA folks. They are working a really cool thing.
Then, I spent a rare evening in Midtown and saw Taylor Alexander and Lindsay Ellyn, The Gasoline Brothers, and Richie Owens and the Farm Bureau and hung out with friends.
Saturday night, I went to The Basement for Pony Boy's CD Release Show - her new album Blue Gold is amazing by the way. Lilly Hiatt opened the show and was awesome. Pony Boy was spectacular and Robyn Hitchcock joined to play harmonica on Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", and yes, I did get to introduce myself as the goofy guy who made the Soft Cell joke. :-) Justin Collins and the Cosmics closed the night with some really great high energy rock. Justin and Adam Landry produced Pony Boy's new album. They are the duo behind Deer Tick and Diamond Rugs and Black Vincent (who we have been featuring here of late). I got to meet Adam, too.
Sunday night, a great night at Bobby's Idle Hour on Music Row. Julie Christensen and Patterson Barrett performed some of Julie's awesome songs. Russell Thompson played with Megan Palmer, and then Megan did her own set and reminded me again of just how awesome she is. For the last song, she and a chorus of great female singers (Julie Christensen, Ariel Bui, Nellie Clay, and more) closed the night with a rip roaring rendition of Palmer's "Knife Twister". Oh and Victoria Williams was in the audience, too.
Tonight, I am going out to see my friends Zach Red Stacy and Taylor Alexander playing 8 off 8th at Mercy Lounge.