E2TG 2/28/2022 - Music City Monday - Closing Jam Mix (Talking Dogs Remix)

Tweet #E2TG

Be sure to "Like" Ear to the Ground on Facebook!

It is Monday and time for another jam packed Music City Monday Shuffle - below the jump....

 

    Featured Friday Playlist

E2TG 2/25/2022 - Featured Friday - Amazon Mix (Deeper Mix)

Tweet #E2TG

Be sure to "Like" Ear to the Ground on Facebook!

We have a long Featured Friday Playlist.  So please check it out at your leisure.  We highlight the first several songs below the jump. 

 

    Featured Friday Playlist

E2TG 2/24/2022 - Absolutely Nothing - Hymn Mix (singular-plural Remix)

Tweet #E2TG

Be sure to "Like" Ear to the Ground on Facebook!

There is a lot of bad things in the world.  We should never ignore that fact, but I also believe it is important not to let those bad things define our lives. One can be aware and engaged and still be able to see the beauty in the moment.  For me, music has always been a way to stay grounded in the moment and even to temporarily escape from the sometimes harsh realities of the world. So, while I am trying to stay aware of what is going on right now, and I am sending thoughts of peace out into the universe - I am also grateful for the music that makes my life better.  

Last night, a great non-Americana/country/folk kind of night at The 5 Spot - with alternative/post punk/new wave night with Slark Moan and Palm Ghosts playing the Swill TV show early, and Slump Test, Bad Bad Cats, and Ghost Town Remedy playing punk music at the Decline of Southern Civilization with Shakes opening with a comedy routine and a great DJ spinning punk songs. 

Today's Greetings from Nashville is up on the archive at wxnafm.org.  Here is the direct link. 

6:00am The Profits Speak by Slump Test on Slump Test (2045724 Records DK2)

6:04am Fire Under the Bridge by Cold Equations on Ghost Town (Poor Yorick Records)

6:08am Houston Memory by The Coal Men on Kids with Songs (Funzalo Records)

6:12am Tullahoma by Nellen Dryden on Standstill (Fairfax Records)

6:15am Rome to Paris by India Ramey on Snake Handler (India Ramey Music)

6:19am Wide Awake 5AM by Megan Palmer on Take Good Care – EP (Blue Rose Music)

6:26am Tongue Kiss by Griffin Winton on I’m Not Trying to Flirt with You or Anything (Griffin Winton)

6:29am Mississippi Line by Daniel Seymour & Mark Robinson on Chug It Down and Go (Blind Chihuahua Records)

6:33am Pretty Polly (feat. Kristi Rose) by Fats Kaplin on The Fatman Cometh & World of Wonder (Deluxe Edition) (Pulp Country Records)

6:39am Lord, Take Me from This World (Live) by David Newbould on Live at the Building – EP (MondoTunes)

6:44am Festival Song by Tim Easton on You Don’t Really Know Me (Black Mesa Records)

6:47am The Alabama Waltz by Miss Tess & the Talkbacks on The Love I Have for You (Signature Sounds Recordings)

6:53am Angel of Death by Nashville Symphony Orchestra on George Whitefield Chadwick (Naxos)

Today's Shuffle is below the jump...

    Featured Friday Playlist

E2TG 2/23/2022 - Mid-Weak - Emptiness Mix (Compass Remix)

Tweet #E2TG

Be sure to "Like" Ear to the Ground on Facebook!

 

Sitting here in the latter part of  February - in an uncertain world that seems on the brink of something.. I guess what is on my mind is how there are always many stories happening at the same time, and how some of them only occasionally interact. From the macro level - global events to the most subtle nuances of our internal stories. To me what is interesting is how memory sometimes compartmentalizes the various stories.  Like you remember falling in love and those feelings and experiences. You also remember the nation on a brink of war - for example. But unless those stories intersect in some significant way - you may not remember that they happened at the same time.  So, a novel might put the falling in love story in the context of the global upheaval. While, in real life, you may never make the connection that the two events coincided. 

The other part of it - is that the stories that unfold are experienced and remembered through our lens of perception. To that end, I love novels or stories that tell the same story from different points of view - sometimes the stories can be so different. Documented facts don't change, but how much of our lives - how much of our stories is properly documented. So, I remember it happening one way, and you remember it another.  We can choose to fight over the differences or embrace them and learn about one another from how we experienced the story. 

Looking forward tonight at The 5 Spot.  Early - it is SwillTV always a fun night and the one and only Palm Ghosts will be playing.    Later, it is return of Decline of Southern Civilization (the first since March 11, 2020) with E2TG favorites Slump Test and Ghost Town Remedy and more. 

Today's extended shuffle is below the jump

 

    Featured Friday Playlist

E2TG 2/22/2022 - Twosday - Better Love Mix (Read the Forecast Remix)

Tweet #E2TG

Be sure to "Like" Ear to the Ground on Facebook!

Today's 50th Edition of Ear to the Ground radio is up on the archive at wxnafm.org.

 6:00am Sonny Boy by Owsley on Owsley (Giant)

6:01am Good Times Never Last by Sara Syms on Good Times Never Last – Single (Sara Syms)

6:04am I Can Face the Truth by Dana Cooper on I Can Face the Truth (Dana Cooper)

6:07am Tape by Evan Barber on Tape – Single (Commit Records)

6:10am Truer Than Them All by Chris Robley on Truer Than Them All – Single (Cutthroat Pop Records)

6:13am Window by Eric Bolander on Can’t Get There From Here (Eric Bolander)

6:17am Mother Earth by Rozz on Time (Nub Music)

6:19am Sweet Mary by Mathilda LEIN on SIngle (Mathilda LEIN)

6:21am Keep Multiplying by Livingmore on Keep Multiplying – Single (Livingmore)

6:28am A Girl Like You by Late TV on A Girl Like You – Single (Forcestress)

6:32am Keep Up (feat. Suavee) by Joaquin Garcia on Hearttunes (Legacy)

6:35am Progress (Or the Lack Of) by Klammer on Progress (or the lack of) [Single] (Heavy Metal Records)

6:38am Entertainment by Tangled Up on Silk Embroidered Light – EP (Knife Hits Records)

6:45am Looks Floating by No One from No Place on Single (Independent)

6:49am Parasite by Original Son on Currents (Sell the Heart Records)

6:52am Faceless by Human Issue on Faceless. Nameless. – EP (Rad Girlfriend Records)

6:55am Believing (feat. Grainne McCarthy) [Instrumental] by Danny G & the Major 7ths on The Lookout Instrumentals (Instrumental) (Hipdrop Records)

Today's shuffle is below....

    Featured Friday Playlist

E2TG 2/18/2022 - Featured Friday - Good Times Mix (Window Remix)

Tweet #E2TG

Be sure to "Like" Ear to the Ground on Facebook!

It is time for another E2TG Featured Friday Playlist.  Time is short so you can listen to the playlist and see the songs included below. 

 

    Featured Friday Playlist

E2TG 2/17/2022 - Rainy Day Music - Mendocino Mix (Diamonds Remix)

Tweet #E2TG

Be sure to "Like" Ear to the Ground on Facebook!

Today's Membership Drive edition of Greetings from Nashville on WXNA is up on the archive.  You can listen and look into becoming a sustaining member of the stations at wxnafm.org.   HERE is a directly link to the show on the archive. 

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

6:03am Burdens Down (Live) by Kyshona Armstrong on Live from the Sanctuary (Kyshona Armstrong)

6:08am Thank Me Later by Devon Gilfillian on Black Hole Rainbow (Capitol Records)

6:12am I Wonder (feat. Patrick Dailey, W. Crimm Singers & Caroline Randall Williams) by Louis York on American Griots (Weirdo Workshop, LLC)

6:20am We Shall Be Free by Jason Eskridge on We Shall Be Free – Single (Jason Eskridge)

6:23am Quarantine Funk by Otto Gross on Quarantine Funk – Single (Otto Gross Music)

6:27am Frustrated by R.LUM.R on Afterimage – EP (PRMD)

6:32am Freedom by The New Respects on Before The Sun Goes Down (Credential Recordings (CRE))

6:35am South Gotta Change by Adia Victoria on South Gotta Change – Single (Atlantic Records)

6:39am Black Like Me by Mickey Guyton on Mickey Guyton – EP (Capitol Records Nashville)

6:44am Crazy Things by Lauren McClinton on Dawn (Lauren McClinton)

6:47am Feeling the Pain by The Shindellas on Hits That Stick Like Grits (Weirdo Workshop, LLC)

6:52am Break N’ Lude 1 by Daru Jones & Bobby J From Rockaway on One Mic & Drum Breakstrumentals (Fat Beats Records)

6:56am Sword and Stone by Victor Wooten on Sword and Stone (Vix Records)

Today's shuffle is after the jump!

 

    Featured Friday Playlist