Apparently someone painted this on the Rock at my alma mater. Go Vols. The kids are alright.

Treating myself to a late birthday show by seeing Damien Jurado tonight at The Grey Eagle.

The War on Drugs at Asheville Yards tonight was incredible. This was my wife's bucket list song, while I got "Harmonia's Dream" a few selections later.

I survived the Nate Sib concert at the Grey Eagle!

I usually subscribe to Paramount Plus every football season, but if they only carry the Titan games and they continue to play like this there would be very little reason to renew next month, especially considering the low quality of their other offerings.

The first two Sturgill shows for this tour just dropped on Nugs earlier today. That cover of "Life During Wartime" is blistering.

After hearing it for the first time last night, I can completely understand why people are raving about the Bill Orcutt "Four Louies Live" album. I waited until this morning to buy it for Bandcamp Friday. This is a banger.

Maaaaaaaan... "Rusty Cage" still slaps so damn hard, regardless of having heard it hundreds of times in my life.

I read "Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy" by Alan Lichte on and off over the past few weeks and it is a bit like the Bonnie Prince's discography. Some sections were worthwhile/wonderful with some sections repetitive/inessential. It was basically as described: a 400-page interview.

Liam Kazar is quickly becoming one of my favorite young songwriters. His new single "Brain Dry" is definitely worth three minutes of your time.

My father once danced with Dolly at a high school social function and always said it was his proudest moment. I will also say that he had two sons, but I can't blame him for saying that one topped our births.

I will watch Kyle Chandler or Kelly Macdonald in ANYTHING. "Lanterns" has set the bar extremely high with this first episode.

PlutoTV has a station that is 100% 1980s Transformers cartoons and I am here for it.

I am really looking forward to the day Bryce Elder is no longer part of the Braves organization.

In my ongoing efforts to get my twelve-year-old into live music, she chose someone named "Nate Sib" to see in September. I will be taking her three days later to see MY choice, The War on Drugs.

One can never go wrong listening to any of the albums from The Long Winters.

I do enjoy an easy-listening music experience, and "Love & Devotion" by Sam and Louise Sullivan certainly fits that bill.

I appreciate folks trying to cover "Hammond Song", but there is only one true version and it is absolute perfection.

Ronald Acuña, Jr. is a very unserious baseball player and if we are being honest, I wouldn't mind seeing him play baseball somewhere OUTSIDE of Atlanta.

I had pizza for lunch earlier and I won't lie - I would really like to have some more of it.

I will once again posit the question based on today's news: do you think people close to Lebron call him "Lebron Jim"?

People probably rightfully shit on Tennessee, but I'll be damned if my heart didn't swell upon seeing that "Tennessee Welcomes You" sign upon coming home from Louisville, Kentucky this morning.

This is a periodic reminder if you have been sleeping on one of this year's best releases... alwayshappeningrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jason-...

Jason P. Woodbury & The Night Bird Singing Quartet, by Jason P. Woodbury

11 track album

alwayshappeningrecords.bandcamp.com

The Braves play at 2:15 and with the way they have been playing the past six weeks, I believe a nap will be a better use of my time today.

I am pretty certain the new Burning Man documentary on HBO Max will do very little to change my opinion on the culture surrounding said event.

Explored Tom T. Hall's discography a little today. Dude had some legit slappers.

Do you mean to tell me that EVERY single game on the MLB.TV app is blacked out due to NBC/Peacock streams today? Utter horseshit...

I got to share my story of Lee Greenwood crotching himself at a Knoxville mall in 1998 at the family reunion today.

Is it a coincidence that my neighbor got a rooster this past Tuesday and I have been awake by 4:30 AM every morning since Wednesday? I think not. In other news, I hate my neighbor.

Sabbath's "Paranoid" just came on the radio at this oil change place!