Welcome to the first #guitarmonday of 2024! Somehow it didn't feel like showing up until March. It does what it wants. Anyway, your #guitarmonday song is a new one by my pals in Year of October, "Spell on Me."
Disjointed days make for awkward scheduling, and that's what I've been having. Still, I felt it was worth telling you about and showing photos from two shows I was at on Thursday & Friday of last week.
On Thursday, I went over to the OG Basement in Nashville to see Terra Lightfoot and Brandy Zdan rock out at an early show. And rock out they certainly did! Both women love rock-n-roll and exceeded any half-formed expectations I might have had. Lightfoot and Zdan are both Canadians, although Zdan lives in Nashville these days. I am the third Canadian mentioned in the title of this blog post - two came to rock, one came to witness.
Terra Lightfoot and her band started out the show with a bang. I highly recommend checking out her 2023 album "Healing Power".
Zdan is a righteous rocker as well. And HER album "Falcon" is also worthy of a listen or ten. You can trust that a musician like Zdan is also going to have a badass band.
Special thanks to Sarah Bennett of The Green Room PR for the invitation to the Lightfoot/Zdan show - it was fantastic!
The very next night, Friday March 8th, I was out at the Cobra (again - three weeks in a row!) for the Black Bra, sugar sk*-*lls, and Pressure Heaven show organized by the excellent Michael Eades of YK records. If you've been hanging around The Light Pours Out of Me blog (or me) for a while, you know that Black Bra is pretty much my favorite Nashville band, and one of their live shows is always a treat. They opened the show with the fire they always bring.
sugar sk*-*lls have been featured in this blog before (December 2023) and don't need much introduction other than that they make excellent electronic music and bring their own extra light to every show (kudos!)
Pressure Heaven is relatively new and the buzz is just starting to build in Nashville about their industrial dream-pop, a description that perked my gothic-industrial ears up. It's good to know people are still making this music I've been listening to for a long time, and bringing their young and fresh perspectives.
Two very different nights of music, both excellent in their own way. That's my Nashville - great music everywhere you go. Your next favorite song is just waiting around a corner or hanging around in front of the 5 Spot. You just never know.
So while you're going about your week, listen to great music and be excellent to each other until I talk to you again.