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Reason I love Nashville #(somemadeupnumber...prettybigI'dguess):
To be able to say that I saw Brock Zeman, Blair Hogan, Darrin Bradbury, Megan Palmer, Lilly Hiatt, Jesse Lafser, John Jackson, Brian Wright, Aaron Lee Tasjan and more.... and for that to be in one night not over the course of a week or a month. You know - Monday night!
Brock and Blair will be playing as part of $2 Tuesday at The 5 Spot tonight. Aaron Lee will be part of a line-up at ACME Feed and Seed sponsored by No Country for New Nashville. You probably won't be able to do both, but you should definitely done one or the other if you around.
Probably the highlight of the night was Brian Wright and his incredible band that included Aaron Lee Tasjan on guitar ripping through an mind-blowing version of Big Wilson River's "Astronaut". Long time and careful readers of this blog will remember that Big Wilson River was a Featured Artist/Band way back in 2012. They were probably in the process of breaking up when I was featuring them, and I kind of lost touch until head BWR dude, Darrin Bradbury showed up in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Nashville in late 2013. Anyway, it was a really amazing version of the song, and I was trying to record it when my stupid phone ran out of memory and then didn't save the part I did record. Fortunately there is a video someone made floating around.
Here is the original:
