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ICYMI - be sure to read my review of Deena's album Rock River.
Today's shuffle could have been subtitled "My Ever Changing Shuffle"... just saying
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Showing posts with label The Features. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Gratitude Mix
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Short and Sweet.In spite of Because of all of the difficulties of this year, I am more aware than ever of the reasons I have to be grateful. In a randomly shuffled way - that will be my focus today....
Short and Sweet.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Monday Morning Music Shuffle - What's He Building? Mix
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Time to ease into a new week, a new month, and for some of us a new time structure - as Daylight Savings Time ends and Standard Time begins. It's Monday... Let's do this shuffle thing...
Time to ease into a new week, a new month, and for some of us a new time structure - as Daylight Savings Time ends and Standard Time begins. It's Monday... Let's do this shuffle thing...
Monday, October 27, 2014
Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Working Up a Sweat Mix
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I need to give some credit where it is due.... About a year and a half ago, based upon a suggestion from the enigmatic and amazing The Danbury Lie, I began compiling a daily Video playlist based upon my daily shuffle. Before that I just posted videos with the song, but my hope was to create an easier listening experience.
Now, due to the newishness and/or obscurity of some of the music I feature - as well as the vagrancies of what is available on You Tube, sometimes I can find the exact song, sometimes I can find a different song from the same artist or a different version of the same song, and sometimes I just have to punt.
Anyway, I mention this today because many of videos in the playlist today are not the exact song I listened to during my morning commute. It's still a fine video playlist, and I hope you like it.
I should also say that we don't really do theme shuffles here at #E2TG - we used to, but whatever... still by the laws of randomness and selective playlist creation, we do have some Halloween themed songs...
Shall we...
I need to give some credit where it is due.... About a year and a half ago, based upon a suggestion from the enigmatic and amazing The Danbury Lie, I began compiling a daily Video playlist based upon my daily shuffle. Before that I just posted videos with the song, but my hope was to create an easier listening experience.
Now, due to the newishness and/or obscurity of some of the music I feature - as well as the vagrancies of what is available on You Tube, sometimes I can find the exact song, sometimes I can find a different song from the same artist or a different version of the same song, and sometimes I just have to punt.
Anyway, I mention this today because many of videos in the playlist today are not the exact song I listened to during my morning commute. It's still a fine video playlist, and I hope you like it.
I should also say that we don't really do theme shuffles here at #E2TG - we used to, but whatever... still by the laws of randomness and selective playlist creation, we do have some Halloween themed songs...
Shall we...
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Gallatin Pike Mule Mix
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It is axiomatic that on any given night, if you go hear live music in Nashville - no matter how epically awesome your experience - there is something equally epic and awesome going on either next door or across town. This is even more true - if something axiomatic can be "more" true during Americana Fest week which is going on now. I just added a corollary to this axiom (Can an axiom have a corollary? Can it have a coronary?), which states that if you hang out in the same smoky dive bar in East Nashville long enough you will hear "Freebird" accompanied by a trombone and it will be amazing.
Tonight - E2TG favorite Mark Robinson joins an amazing line-up of Rocking Roots Guitarists at The Five Spot from 5-8pm. At 8:00 - another E2TG favorite - Pony Boy will be leading off a Five Spot Favorites show at that same location. And it goes on...
It is axiomatic that on any given night, if you go hear live music in Nashville - no matter how epically awesome your experience - there is something equally epic and awesome going on either next door or across town. This is even more true - if something axiomatic can be "more" true during Americana Fest week which is going on now. I just added a corollary to this axiom (Can an axiom have a corollary? Can it have a coronary?), which states that if you hang out in the same smoky dive bar in East Nashville long enough you will hear "Freebird" accompanied by a trombone and it will be amazing.
Tonight - E2TG favorite Mark Robinson joins an amazing line-up of Rocking Roots Guitarists at The Five Spot from 5-8pm. At 8:00 - another E2TG favorite - Pony Boy will be leading off a Five Spot Favorites show at that same location. And it goes on...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Ear to the Wall Mix
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Life is a balance of patience, hard work, dumb luck, and the occasional moment of happy coincidence. Or so it seems from this particular moment in my existence. I was thinking about the two recent reviews I wrote, and the circumstances that lead me to having the opportunity to write those reviews. In 2011, when I started Ear to the Ground, I was trying to find a blog platform that would be easy to use and be visually interesting. I came across Posterous which seeming fit the bill. Through that site, I came into contact with Howard Rabach and his enigmatic band Ubiquity Machine. We became Facebook friends, and now Howard plays bass for The Grey A, and he sent me their new album to review.
About six months later, around the time that I decided that Posterous could not do everything I wanted to do*, I happened upon a cool band from New Jersey called Those Mockingbirds. That band lead me to Don Ryan, Popa Tunes, The Dead Exs, The End Men, and my whole fascination with New York/New Jersey/Connecticut bands and artists which continues to this day. Through all of that, and I think through a direct recommendation from Don Ryan, I became familiar with a band called Big Wilson River - a cool band which featured Darrin Bradbury who put out Motel Oatmeal, the other album I reviewed last weekend.
Just thought I'd share... I don't know what it all means... The End Men have taught me the idea of saying yes to almost everything, and so far that philosophy seems to be working out okay.
Well we have a shuffle to put on... so enough musing...
Life is a balance of patience, hard work, dumb luck, and the occasional moment of happy coincidence. Or so it seems from this particular moment in my existence. I was thinking about the two recent reviews I wrote, and the circumstances that lead me to having the opportunity to write those reviews. In 2011, when I started Ear to the Ground, I was trying to find a blog platform that would be easy to use and be visually interesting. I came across Posterous which seeming fit the bill. Through that site, I came into contact with Howard Rabach and his enigmatic band Ubiquity Machine. We became Facebook friends, and now Howard plays bass for The Grey A, and he sent me their new album to review.
About six months later, around the time that I decided that Posterous could not do everything I wanted to do*, I happened upon a cool band from New Jersey called Those Mockingbirds. That band lead me to Don Ryan, Popa Tunes, The Dead Exs, The End Men, and my whole fascination with New York/New Jersey/Connecticut bands and artists which continues to this day. Through all of that, and I think through a direct recommendation from Don Ryan, I became familiar with a band called Big Wilson River - a cool band which featured Darrin Bradbury who put out Motel Oatmeal, the other album I reviewed last weekend.
Just thought I'd share... I don't know what it all means... The End Men have taught me the idea of saying yes to almost everything, and so far that philosophy seems to be working out okay.
Well we have a shuffle to put on... so enough musing...
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