E2TG 10/28/2021 - Senses Working - Football Shaped Mix (Good Part Remix)

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Today's Halloween-centric Greetings From Nashville radio show is available on the WXNA archives. 

6:00am Greetings from Nashville by Jason and The Scorchers on Still Standing (EMI/EMI Records (USA))

6:02am Bored Young Ghost by My Politic on 12 Kinds of Lost (My Politic)

6:06am Your Heart to Haunt by Glossary on Feral Fire (Young Buffalo)

6:11am The Ghost by Ghost Town Remedy on Dry Spell (Never Nude Records)

6:15am Skeleton Crew by Webb Wilder on Hybrid Vigor (Island Records)

6:20am Skeleton Head by Diarrhea Planet on I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (Dine Alone Records)

6:25am Dig Two Graves by Anne McCue on Blue Sky Thinkin’ (Flying Machine Records)

6:30am Rider Ghost by Amelia White on Beautiful and Wild (White-Wolf Records)

6:34am Ghost Town by Jason And The Scorchers on Still Standing (EMI/EMI Records (USA))

6:38am Rock and Roll Halloween by Bobby Bare Jr. on Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost) [Official Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Bloodshot Records)

6:41am To My Grave (feat. Fats Kaplin) by Wild Ponies on Galax (Gearbox Records)

6:46am Shallow Graves by India Ramey on Shallow Graves (India Ramey)

6:48am Halloween by Mcclendon on Mcclendon (Groover Obsessions)

6:54am American Gothic III: Pitchfork by Nashville Symphony Orchestra on Single (Naxos Special Projects)

It's the last day to check out the Featured Friday Playlist before it refreshes.  I am still figuring out how I am going to format E2TG going forward, the time has worked better for me this week- but it still needs some tweaking.  Stay tuned. 

Today's shuffle below:

 

    Featured Friday Playlist

Topical Thursday Morning Shuffle - Ain't Democracy Wonderful Mix

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Busy, busy...   Went out to see Jon Byrd and Byrd's Auto Parts at The 5 Spot. Really great set. Cool tunes, a great band. Wendy Newcomer joined Byrd to sing a few songs.  Great hang. Talked a little to Don Gallardo who shared some updates about his next album. This makes me really excited.

It is Thursday - time to head back to my Topical Thursday playlist of songs that thematically or titular-wise fit a loosely defined and unexplained topic of my creation.  The connections are in my mind only and really this is mostly an excuse to play some really cool tunes.  Read what you want into my selections, but I do not mean to imply that any of these artists mean for their songs to be interpreted how I did.

Throwback Thursday Morning Shuffle - Boiling Butter Mix

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Fun-filled night at Coverbest at The Beast (The Basement East)... Terry Rickards always does a great job putting those events on... I really dug Matt Haeck doing Tom Waits,  Darrin Bradbury doing Modest Mouse, Sarah Potenza doing Gillian Welch, and Tesla Rossa doing Beck... plus lots of inspiring conversations about music and East Nashville and creativity....

Tonight, Fats Kaplin returns to his Thursday Night residency at The 5 Spot - the penultimate week of this month-long (sans St. Patrick's Day) event...  I missed two weeks ago, and I do not want to miss this one...  It is guaranteed to be some of the best music around and highly entertaining, too.

Later tonight, Chris Scruggs and The Stone Fox Five are playing what I think is their second show since the club that gave them their name closed unexpectedly.  They will be at The Country with The Farmer and Adele opening.  I have heard a lot about The Farmer and Adele, but I have not seen them yet.

I am off work tomorrow.  I may try to do a Featured Friday Shuffle from home, but no promises... stay tuned.

Meanwhile, Thursday - means we throw it back like an undersized fish....

Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Takes Brains Mix

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Back at you with another shuffle after a day off.  Made it to four different venues last night to see friends play music.  Two downtown, two on the eastside.  Heard a couple of great songwriter circles - one with Taylor Alexander of the band Young America and one with Lindsay Ellyn.  Hustled to the East Nashville - Logue's Black Raven Speakeasy to catch the last part of Amelia White's set and a moving set from the incomparable Julie Christensen, and then drove a few block down Gallatin Pike to catch the tail end of a set from Darrin Bradbury and the Fran's Eastside Super-High Band (Tim Carroll, Cameron Carrus, and David Strayer).  As Lindsay said, the hustle is real...

Today's shuffle is long on great music, but I am short on time... so check it out, google if you need to and enjoy our little video approximation.

Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Return of the Living Dead Mix

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Well... after a week long bout with the flu, I can safely say that I am back from the grave and ready to party!



Hall of Fame update - 1. I at least have a template for the Hall of Fame page entries.  I was beginning to work more on the page when I fell ill.  - doesn't "fell ill" sound so sophisticated?  Let me tell you - the reality was pretty awful. 2. I came up with a list of notable omissions from my initial class of twenty - some of these were due to being first mentioned in the pre-blogger days, some due to alternate spellings affecting the tag count.  In any event, I will be adding those names soon.

p.s. I have a literal ton of songs waiting to be added to the active playlist.*

*confession: I have no clue how much a song weighs so I can't truly say that I literally have a ton of songs to add... but it's a bunch.

Let's ease back into things with a pretty nifty Monday Shuffle

Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Alive and Kicking Mix

Stumbling into a chilly mid-week and finally completely back into the swing of things.  I gonna try to have a better attitude today, so nobody screw with me, okay? :-)  Anyway, cozy mix of totally random song selections from an arbitrary play-list.

ONE:
 


(note: if you search Insane Jane on You Tube there is another band that comes up.  From the little I could stand to watch, it appears that they suck. Accept no substitutes!)
(click to purchase and download A Green Little Pill by Insane Jane)
Insane Jane was a incredibly awesome late 80s/early 90s Atlanta band. Lead singer Yellow belted out powerful vocals and the band ripped it live.  Once I... is the lead off track from their 1991ish album A Green Little Pill.  It definitely shows off the sound that made them a great band.  Like way too many great bands of that era, they never made it big and it all ended way too soon.  Unfortunately, I never got to see one of their legendary Atlanta live shows, but I did see them in front of way too few people in a hole in North Nashville, and even then without the energy of a crowd they still killed it. 

TWO:






(click to purchase and download Skylarking by XTC)
XTC just totally rules. Okay. Skylarking is a great album.  Okay.  Check out the lovely Ballet for a Rainy Day, and be prepared to crave fruit.

THREE:







 
(click to purchase and download the 10th Anniversary Remaster of Musicforthemorningafter by Pete Yorn)

Life on a Chain  comes from the 10th Anniversary Remastered version of Pete Yorn's debut album musicforthemorningafter. It's a good example of early 21st Century alternative pop music. 

FOUR:


 

(click to purchase and download Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case)

Neko Case is just freakin' cool.  She has one the most distinctive voices in Alternative-Folk music today.  Star Witness   comes from her excellent 2006 album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.  Her band New Pornographers are pretty awesome, too, but you already knew that.

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