TAG: NASHVILLE

Feeling this a little to much today.

Full assault hardcore.

This isn’t normally my type of thing. I’m not big on 90s throwback stuff. But there is something about this album that rises above 90s grunge worship. It’s a little rougher, some songs even have a touch of noise rock, and her voice is great. 

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

Yes, “Hurt” is a better song and “Rusty Cage” is sillier, but “Solitary Man” is pretty damn great. I actually have spent a fair amount of time this month trying to pick the right Cash cover to post. The American albums are full of covers, many of them good, but not that many really stick with me. "Solitary Man,“ "Hurt,” and “One” do.

How I’ve avoided posting JTE before now is beyond me. 

The time I heard of Justin Townes Earl, he was opening for Lucero. He was great live, and I bought his first record, “The Good Life,” that night. A year or two later, “Midnight At The Movies” came out, and I wasn’t thrilled with it. It lacked the old-timey/honky-tonkness of the first record. But it slowly won me over, and eventually eclipsed “The Good Life." 

The same thing happened when "Harlem River Blues” came out. I heard a few songs and immediately dismissed them. And now I’m on my fifth or sixth listen through the entire album in as many hours.