The four-day week that follows a long weekend is like the power play after a long-delayed penalty, and it’s an underappreciated calendaric gift.
To the point: I was going to use John Conlee’s “Friday Night Blues” as this week’s Friday jam, but it turns out he really was a one-hit wonder. Instead, and in reflection of last weekend’s Nashville jaunt, here’s the Station Inn’s own Mashville Brigade with their rendition of Conlee’s hit, with a bonus tease of a planned future Friday jam:
Yesterday marked the close of the first month in ALDLAND, so it’s time to make like Texas A&M and up the ante.
As promised, this site and its various outlets will be covering college football’s opening weekend live(ish) from Nashville, where Vanderbilt hosts Elon tomorrow night. In that spirit, here’s today’s Friday jam, which happens to include appearances from some folks featured here before (Bruce Hornsby and Jerry Garcia):
For a slow week, that went pretty fast. Any week that begins with a Monday night concert probably is going to go pretty well, though, and I’ve already started my report on that night with Lyle Lovett, so watch for that in the next few days.
Onto the good stuff. Like this post, I’m a little late with this selection, helpfully entitled “Friday Night, August 14th,” but it is better late than never. As they say (said), free your mind, and everything else will follow:
This Roger Goodell-Terrelle Pryor suspension thing got me all worked up yesterday, so I had to put that post up first this morning, but I’m back on track now.
In case you had a long week and can’t remember how you got to Friday afternoon, let David Bowie refresh your memory:
It’s the end of the week again, and this Friday finds ALDLAND having avoided (I think) a week-two sophomore slump. Friday-themed jams seem like a good idea as long as I can keep thinking of them. Suggestions are welcome.
After last week’s inaugural jam, the selection for this week was the next logical choice. I wanted to offer a live cut instead of a generic slideshow of grainy stills, and, as it turned out, there was only one real option readily available. The band apparently went through its Amish phase in 1980, but don’t worry if you don’t recognize the group since you’ll get a pretty good clue around the 1:35 mark.
Perhaps improbably, ALDLAND has survived its first week. I am happy with the content so far, and I’m looking forward to getting some more folks on board, hopefully starting next week. (As I’ve said from the beginning, if you’d like to be a part of this group, send me a note: aldland[dot]com[at]gmail[dot]com. Would love to have you.)
Maybe not for every Friday, but definitely on the first Friday, I thought it would be good to start things off with a Friday-themed jam. Once I got the idea, there really wasn’t much choice as to which one to go with for the inaugural ALDLAND Friday groove:
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