The Basement, Nashville...

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Monday Night...
Chuck Ragan, with opener Joshua Black Wilkins. Ah SAY boy, This is serious electrified countryfied seriously good shit! Man it was a killer show. The Evil Stout went down right smooth too

NSFW Joshua Black Wilkins
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Then there was Chuck Ragan, He played with Social Distortion on, hell yeah, THE FREAKIN STAGE OF THE RYMAN! Yessir, punk rock and killer US folk on the freakin Greanbd Ol Oprey stage! The Basement show was in a small concrete floor bar, a real killer dive, man, straight in the crap industrial side of Nashville

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and I love me some California Burritos!(it's the name of the song, I say boy, the name of the song!)

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The show was kick ass. PAnty 6 and I had a lot of fun just hanging out with teh musicians and getting all the swag signed for we an the kids...who had to stay home because it was a 21 ove place...not a bad thing now, but well they hated us for it if only until they go t their hands on the signed stuff for their walls

 

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Joshua is one heck of a good kid. His parents are both Marine's from Vietnam to retirement. On 9-12, he went up to them and told them he was going to join the Corps to go fight in Afghanistan. His father as any good Marine father who has been in the shit, explained to him that there was no fucking way on earth he would do so without his Mother's permission. His mother explained to him in her best Marine voice(as told to me at the show), that there was no way in hell that her only son would go into the Marines or any other branch of service to fight based on revenge. Both parents thought the best course for Joshua would be school and a good job. Sometime after that, Joshua decided that music would be his way on the world. His parents both blessed off on it and the kid is doing pretty darn good these days.
US, well we just want to insure that this kid's music gets out there, get's bought up, and goes totally viral with a fan base of thousands. Afterall, he does have two Marine parents to look after in their old age...man, I could never even thin what it would have been like growingup with TWO parents as Marine's. My stepfather was a Marine and that was bad enough!

 

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Been listening to both CD's in teh truck almost non stop. Damn good tunes!

 

[Queequeg]

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I like it Switch. Man you have eclectic tastes!

Thanks.

 

[Rhys]

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I like the first one. The second one doesn't do much for me.

 

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The acoustic stuff is good. The second one from Josh is a bigger production, and his 40 Volts band is a little more country, but I still like it...it caters to my inner hillbilly blood.
QQ, I just love music period. Classical Brahms and Beethoven to Punk and a lot of stuff in between. Celtic based folk/punk is my favorite as is most punk. Rock n Roll is always good, and I even like country if it's styled closer to the older stuff or the rockabilly stuff. One of my absolute favorites is Greg Graffin's(bad religion) Moonshine Whiskey off his acoustic CD. It's country as hell, and damn good!