Well, I missed Sonic Sunday this weekend, but I’ll make up for it with some quaran-tunes for your enjoyment. This week, I’m taking a voyage across the mercilessly wide state (almost as if it was added to the Union in some type of land-grab) of Tennessee. When I moved there in 2013, I made the argument that the Volunteer State has contributed more to popular music history than any other, and I still tend to agree with that idea.

This DJ mix, though, gave me the opportunity to share some wax tracks released by various friends I made in my six years of living in Knoxville as well as a few stone-cold classics.

1. Dead Man’s Lifestyle (Morristown) – “Common Lush” (split lathe 7″ with Cop Funeral)
2. Reigning Sound (Memphis) – “Time Bomb High School” (stone cold classic LP)
3. Psychic Baos (Knoxville) – “Fluicide” (Two words: Will Fist)
4. Faux Killas (Memphis) – “Anxious Love” (I saw this band set Shangri-La Records aflame last year when I went to a conference at University of Memphis)
5. Daddy Don’t (Knoxville) – “Octopussy”  (The only band, to my knowledge, with a full-time bubble blower)
6. Bark (Knoxville) – “Everything He Built” (7″ with beautiful artwork by Striped Light)
7. Daddy Issues (Nashville) – “Locked Out” (Possibly my favorite cut from my third favorite LP of the 2010’s)
8. Lavish Boars (Knoxville) – “They Accepted Me as One of their Own”
9. Koro (Knoxville) – “The 700 Club” (Off the EP repress, because I’m not a millionaire)
10. Big Star (Memphis) – “What’s Going Ahn”  (here’s a little heartbreak for you)
11. Gamenight (Knoxville) – “Take My Time”
12. Headface and the Congenitals (Knoxville) – “Beast is Better”  (The McBrides are America’s greatest rock n’ roll family)
13. The Lost Sounds (Memphis) – “Better Than Something”
14. Booker T. and the MG’s (Memphis) – “A Woman, a Lover, and Friend”
15. Saint Thomas LeDoux (Nashville by way of Knoxville by way of Memphis) – “Me Time”
16. Ex-Gold (Knoxville) – “I’m a Man”
17. Johnny Cash (omnipresent) – “Goodbye, Little Darlin'”

Knoxville, March 25, 2018. Never forget.