Toggle navigation Menu. Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. Manage followed notifications. Close Followed notifications. Please log in to use this feature Log In. Don't have an account? Sign Up Today. Apparently, the locals are clueless about Junior and there was a stack of copies available. And thank you to Daft Punk.
Random Access Memories is amazing, go get it. I am going to cut a new version of this to offer as a free download, and produce some banjo tab for those who are interested, probably within a week or so. Very Entertaining Records Bill Davis is excited about the light being shined on his label mate and friend.
How far can this go? Meadownoise at The Groove, Aug. With beer on tap and moderate temps, The Groove hosted what could have been called more of a house party than an in-store at their current location.
The songs ran the gamut, like a verbal historical narrative of a Nashvillian middle age soldier viewing the changes as the Civil War was starting. Even Toddlers got the beat! Meadownoise at The Groove. Meadownoise publicly thanked family, friends and a laundry list of supporters that helped to make the release happen as well as inviting everybody over for an after party at his house as well as a late night gig at the Secret Identities Art Show.
Meadownoise, handcrafted packaging, limited run, 7 inch- CD combo. Ben puts a twist on Chet Atkins picking style by covering the low end through an Ampeg Bass rig, with some gnarly snaking fuzzy bass lines a la Vincebus Eruptum , with stripped down Ministry- influenced- at- Motorhead speed chords and notes through a Marshall. How does the two-man-heavy-stoner rock go over at The 5 Spot? Hey Mr. Marshall meet Mr. Ampeg and try to keep up with Abby. Abby was a solid Bill Ward influenced box beater going from kick to heavy thrashing of the Toms between solid grooves and stoner prog breaks.
Four songs to irritate office workers as you roll down the window of your Ford Fiesta and crank it full volume. If you want yours, you better show up for their next set at The Zombie Shop on July 27 th.
Easter is all about a renewal, as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and what it means to us. Nashville itself is a town of resurrection, a place where Jack White has produced two great albums by Loretta Lynn and Wanda Jackson and where the underbelly that was East Nashville is the place to be.
Speaking of East Nashville, Bob Dylan came here in the Sixties to make a in his career and where Robert Plant came just a couple of years ago to do just the same.
What is Nashville to me? A Californian-slash-Alabama bluesman? I started making the drive up to Nashville quite often starting in from Birmingham. I liked the fact that you could wander from one honky tonk to another and check out all the Telecaster blasters playing through mostly Fender tube amps almost any hour of the day. I finally made the move after getting positive feedback about my songwriting abilities from a local publishing head at the end of It was a very surreal world, where one Saturday morning, wandering around a guitar show, I ended up talking to Scotty Moore about how many Bill Black Combos, Bill really had.
I realized that everybody had a story, whether it was the Baskin Robbins on Lebanon that said Porter Wagoner used to come in all the time, or a snapshot in the window of Robert Plant stopping in to check out the guitars. Strange Karma down on Lower Broad celebrating the bassist birthday! I wonder if it was like this when Keith Urban first came here and was playing at the Guitar Bar? As far as diversity goes, you can get world class Indian Cuisine, of which I am all about Tamarind on Demonbreun.
There are several ethnic communities here, whether it be Egyptian Coptic Christians or Somalis, the list goes on and makes for Eateries that go way beyond the meat and three. Something is in the water in East Nashville, with several upstart, one of a kind places like Far East Nashville , not only your typical Vietnamese Pho and Vermicelli bowls, but, the actual family recipes fixed by the owners brother, in a totally unique way.
In fact, that is what I had for Easter. I could have whatever I wanted, so, I faxed three eggs with some sharp Vermont Cheddar and some of that Andouille Sausage on the side. In fact, there is a plethora of radio station promo copies which are usually on heavier, better quality vinyl. Record Store Day is almost like a city holiday where a huge migration descends mainly on Grimeys by the thousands.
My only gripe would be, is there no bootlegs? Music is everywhere, as I laid down to bed the first few months in Nashville, I could hear music in my head like never before, like ghost radio stations, it seemed like there were thousands of songwriters who had passed on and never left Nashville, they were just trying to get that next big hit.
It seemed as if there was singing in the netherworld and all you had to be was a little bit spiritually aware. I think there are more Telecasters in a 30 mile radius than the whole state of California, where they were invented. As far as electric guitar parts go, Rock Blocks Guitars has a wall of supplies juts minutes away.
Looking at the Musical Instrument section in Craigslist can be eye opening. Z Stang Ray in the backline. My favorite personal story is about my Dr. Z Amplifier. I had been writing and playing my own brand of Ragtime Blues when I moved to Nashville. I had been using a 45 Watt Samamp from Birmingham when I got here and it was just too much. I was ready for a little 30 Watt or less combo. There are so many and I just decided to try them all. Finally, when I plugged into this Dr. Z Stang Ray at Rock Blocks, I had met my match, a simple tone stack, where you could really fill out the bass and a simple good looking black with white trim amp.
The speaker had been changed out to a Cannabis Rex and it had a sound all its own. I needed that amp. Well, things looked bleak when I lost my job in , in fact, really bleak, I left Nashville, worked five months in Memphis, then that company went bankrupt and I ended up taking a job with a national company in Utah and moved out of Tennessee.
On a whim in early , I looked up the Nashville Craigslist and found that exact Dr. Z Stang Ray for sale.
It looked identical. I called him up and explained that I was stuck out in Utah, but, that I knew the amp and through our talk, he knew I was the real deal.
I wired the money to his bank account including the cost to ship it. I was able to come up with that only because I went out west to a company on a bad stretch, because of the economy, they let me have all the overtime I could handle. I sat there and cried. Thank you Brad Paisley for input on the AC30 hybrid design, what a great amp. I still own it and fire it up almost every day in hopes to lay down some tracks here soon. I was in Utah almost a year, when I came out here on vacation in September I will drop his name, because Kenneth Bargers is an amazing Realtor.
He emailed me faithfully every month some houses I would be interested in. When I was here for a week in September , Kenneth Bargers took me around on two afternoons to look at houses. I felt like I was back home, I wanted to be back in Nashville, I did not want to get back on the plane. We found a house I really liked. The last night I was in town, I was hanging around and moping by the pool at the airport Courtyard over on Elm Hill Pike, not wanting to leave Nashville.
I decided I needed to go do something, pull myself up by my bootstraps. So I got dressed and headed over to Commodore Grille to check out some songwriters. Cowboy Jack Clement was in the round and it gave me goose bumps. I thought, if I had stayed at the hotel, I would have missed this.
I decided I need to get back and I was heading out the door when I heard somebody call my name. It was a great reunion of old friends. I have so much respect for Daniel as an all around musician. He can play, write and sing. If anybody could make a great classic country album, he could. He has such a great voice, but, he had really been influenced by a lot of the Alabama Blues that is around Birmingham. I went back to my hotel room on cloud nine. I could hardly sleep. I was going to find a way to get back and I did.
I interviewed by phone and got a transfer. I found a house on Zillow. In fact, Kenneth represented me at closing in November and I never walked into the house until the first week of December as an owner. He is the best Realtor in Nashville as far as I am concerned. Okay, so, I am back. I work hard. I have got to hang with some great musicians and do some great interviews. I work hard at the music and I have some great friends. This would be the year that Indie makes more news in Nashville than Country; what Music City is known for.
There seems to be much more going on with the ever developing spider web of Funk, Rock and strange magic underbelly from the Gulch to East Nashville. Computers, what a blessing and a curse as all the creative occupations occupied by humans are eliminated by this gift we call knowledge at our fingertips.
Well, Steve Jobs, one of the great Priests of the digital age has passed onto the spiritual realm. Okay, before I get to something positive, there were some disappointments. Janes Addiction , while preparing to release their newest album, The Great Escape Artist , put down their last effort, Strays as not being that good, when in fact Strays did have a couple of great guitar hooks, while this dark piece, weak on guitar, ended up being more reminiscent of Porno for Pyros.
There was not one solid hook on the entire album. The album brims with openly strange explorations of warbled sounds and fleeting vocal observations culled from surreal anecdotes, clarinets large and small, a worn Dr. Sample, invented horns and percussion, tubas yes, plural , and the bizarre Hammond x Further setting Threeve apart from its predecessors is the fact that it is at least partially a collaboration.
Glassmeyer started welcoming friends into his live shows early on, but his recordings had remained steadfastly a slow solo trek. With Threeve, though, some of those same folks have made an appearance on record. There was a problem saving your notification. Manage followed notifications. Close Followed notifications. Please log in to use this feature Log In. Don't have an account?
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