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Trey Deuce Club member Good Americans just recently released their Christmas Single. It’s quite low key but it’s often best to err on the side of quiet and pleasant than to go all out and end up with something less than ideal.

A six-song EP featuring Christmas classics, male-female vocal trade offs and just the right balance of energetic style and introspective musings courtesy of The Haunting Party. It came out last Christmas but, hey, timeless music is timeless music – go grab it for free.

Keegan DeWitt offered up a Christmas Eve EP last year – featuring collaborations with Caitlin Rose and Madi Diaz – that still holds up. It’s not quite as pop/rock/upbeat as his offerings from the Nothing Shows EP but it’s perfectly appropriate for sitting around a fire and enjoying a night with friends.

Everyone’s favorite locals The Features recorded an original Xmas tune way back in 2004 entitled “Father Christmas.” You can find it on iTunes.. or just out and about on the web. It is, as one would expect, quality.

Fan-Tan / Channing & Quinn

Michael Eades | Posted Mon December 6, 2010

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Volume 40 (The Best of Nashville)

Michael Eades | Posted Mon December 6, 2010 from WOTT Music

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I am happy to present the fortieth edition of the We Own This Town podcast and, consequently, the Best of 2010 yearly summary release. Putting together any Best Of list is often an insurmountable task but when paired with the avalanche of good music coming out of a relatively small area.. well, it becomes markedly more difficult. With that in mind, there are a few ground rules to make it easier:

No Music From Future Releases.
So, the new music that’s trickled out from the likes of JEFF, Hotpipes, James Wallace, PUJOL, Caitlin Rose, etc. are ineligible until they’re official out there in their full form.
Unfamiliarity Exempts Inclusion.
With so much good music out there I just can’t simply hear it all; despite if I hear that it is absolutely fantastic. So, bands like KORT, Casa Castile, Swing States, Shark Week, William Tyler, etc. are exempt because I simply have not heard enough to make an informed call.
Not Everything Makes the Cut.
A Best Of podcast that included everything that caught my ear would be far too long for practicality. Bands like Ocelots, Makeup and Vanity Set, Non-Commissioned Officers, Grayces, Uncle Skeleton, Super Bowl Rocket Ship, etc. are not excluded because they weren’t worthy, there just isn’t enough room. They should still be looked into.

But enough with the jibber jabber – my rationalization is a moot point now. Please download the podcast, enjoy and let me know in the comments what feels like a egregious error in omission.

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