Saturday Shuffle – Getting Stuff Done Mix

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Hey, I needed to get some “stuff done” today, and I decided to shuffle some music while I got the “stuff done”.  So, welcome to a rare Saturday shuffle.  Limited descriptions  – just a ton of cool tunes.

As I mentioned yesterday, E2TG’s reigning Artist of the Year was selected by Nashville’s Lightning 100 to be their Artist of the Week.  As part of that, he played a free show yesterday evening at Soulshine Pizza, and he played one of the best shows I have ever seen him put on. I could not have been more proud.

“Bluebird” by Brian Wright and the Waco Tragedies

The title track… one of the best songwriters I know!

“Bright Dreams, Lonely Days” by Sara Syms

“Earie” Award winner from Way Back Home

“The Pilgram  (Chapter 33) by Paul Burch

From Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down – a tribute to Kris Kristofferson. Burch is doing a residency at The 5 Spot in February. 

“Oh, The Places” by Fendrick and Peck

From Lucky Penny

“Dying Oceans, Poisoned Seas and You” by Bashful Hips

From Too Old for a Coming of Age Story

“The Marriage of Coyote Woman” by All Them Witches

From Lightning at the Door

“Way Back Home” by Sara Syms

The title track…

“Mountain” by All Them Witches

Another from Lightning at the Door

“I Love My Dad” by Sun Kil Moon

From Benji

“All Across the World” by Dan Coyle

From Random Thoughts and Incomplete Sentences

“University Blvd.” by Los Straitjackets

The seminal modern day surf rock band!

“For the Swans” by Bosveld

Another from Velbrand

“Backstreets” by Bruce Springsteen

From Born to Run

“Hang Me in the Tulsa County Stars” by John Moreland

From High on Tulsa Heat – one of the best of 2015.

“My Mother’s Son” by All the King’s Men

From the EP Making My Escape

“Old England” by The Waterboys

From This is the Sea

“Honky Tonk Moan” by Cale Tyson

From Introducing Cale Tyson

“Eunice Two Step” by Beausoliel

Some sweet Cajun music – this is from the World Cafe Sessions

“I Don’t Think They Understand” by Tom Schreck

A favorite of mine.  From The Added Glory EP (aka Added Glory) (not aka The Added Glory – EP)

“Coming Soon” by Brian Keenan

From Fits and Starts

“Problems of an Atheist” by Bashful Hips

Another from Too Old for a Coming of Age Story.  Atheists have problems, too.

“Only the Sad Songs” by Brandy Zdan

From her self-titled album


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Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle – Per Annum Mix





May 15, 2011

This is my very first post, and I don’t know exactly how this is going to work.  A more informative post will follow, but I want to see how this works.
If you are reading this, it worked just fine.  If not, well – it didn’t.  Or something….

– Work-in-Progress
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Thus began Ear to the Ground: A Music Blog – one year ago today.  

By the numbers:

1 Year
12 Months
52 Weeks
366 Days (leap year)
8,784 Hours
527,040 Minutes
31,622,400 Second
Over 400 posts
Over 21,000 Page Views

We started at Posterous, and toward the end of 2011, we moved over here to Blogger. There is so much I want to tell you about the experience I have had writing here. Numbers do not begin to tell the whole story. I didn’t know what I wanted the blog to be – I think I somehow thought my cleverness and handful of personal accounts of shows seen and songs heard would sustain this blog. Truth be told, if not for the amazing music I’ve come to love, the friendships (musicians, fellow bloggers, fellow music fans) I have come to treasure – I would have quit this experiment a long time ago.  

I can honestly say that the best ideas I’ve had for Ear to the Ground have come about by following my heart. The converse is probably true as well, whenever I get a bright idea, I’m best to set it aside until it seems right.

Enough, at Ear to the Ground, we do like to look back every now and then, but what we like better is moving forward….

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Added a bunch of songs to the list last night – here’s a shuffle:

The Monks of Mellonwah hail from Sydney, Australia. Today we have the radio edit of the title track to the forthcoming Neurogenesis EP (May 24). (The full track is below). The band recently won The Best Indie Rock Band in the Artists In Music Awards in Los Angeles.  The band worked with some real heavy weights on the Neurogenesis EP and one track in on the May CMJ Mix-tape. So the year ahead should be a big one for the band. And now they are on Ear to the Ground so… 😉

https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38598373 “Neurogenesis” (2012) by Monks of Mellonwah by independentmusicpromotion

Next,  We have some aching country blues from the delta region of New Jersey… okay I’m not sure if New Jersey has a delta, but regardless – Jo Wymer’s music comes from a swampy and soulful place.  Stay Away from Me is from her 2011 album Living with Scars.

   
And finally, we have a track from forthcoming (May 29) Sun Kil Moon album Among the Leaves. The song is called That Bird Has a Broken Wing . Thoughtful, intelligent alternative music. Sun Kil Moon features Mark Kozelek  of Red House Painters. 
Link below to Pre-order Among the Leaves