I saw Kathleen Edwards live for the first time Saturday night at the Exit/In here in Nashville. She was great. Dark, raunchy, and as she shows in this kiss-off, the lady can rock.

We did another “Songs From My Couch” session last night, this time with the Nashville band Stagolee. They were fantastic.  It’ll be a couple weeks before the sound and video are mixed and edited. But in the meantime, here’s a little preview from what I’ll call the “drum cam.”

The great Warren Zevon would have been 65 this week. Here’s my favorite:

A few of my favorites . . .

From Paste:

Today . . . Wilco tweeted a slightly more serious, albeit still outrageously awesome video. Before a show at the Civic Opera House in Chicago last month, Staples and singer-songwriter Nick Lowe joined the guys for a rousing rendition of The Band’s hit “The Weight.”

Not my favorite Guess Who song (the commies!), but what a glorious vibe in this video.

No voice evokes the late 60s/early 70s like Burton Cummings’.

Given that he seems to have been the theme this week, a commenter has asked for some John Hiatt. Here’s “Lift Up Every Stone,” of Hiatt’s 2000 back-porch stomper, Crossing Muddy Waters.

Heard this band for the first time in Nashville last week. The rich, smoky, throwback voice belongs to Katie Robertson. The band is called Stagolee.

I was introduced to the Alabama Shakes last week by way of the No Depression Twitter feed.

Wow.

One of my favorite covers. Beck and Emmylou Harris sing Gram Parsons’ “Sin City.”

I have a new post up at Nashville Byline that profiles Nashville blues band the Cold Stares. It includes the acoustic tunes they played from my couch earlier this year, an interview with the band, and my first attempt at using iMovie, below.

Here’s another one of Keb’ Mo’ at the Americana Music Fest.

The Blind Boys of Alabama, in Nashville.

The Jayhakws, in Nashville.

Kenny Vaughan, in Nashville.

Carrie Rodriguez, playing in Nashville.

We’ll go with a Nashville-based Griffin House this week. Love the ambiguity in this song. Can’t decide if it’s a sappy love ballad, or a sarcastic, passive-aggressive kiss-off.

My Nashville Byline blog has relaunched over at Huffington Post.

The first post today is my report from the Americana Music Fest. It comes with a slideshow of photos from the festival, including an uncomfortably up-close photo of John Oates.

The introduction to this Buddy Holly performance on Arthur Murray Dance Party . . .  is simply wonderful.

(Hat tip: Lucy Steigerwald.)

Here are a few shots and a short video of a great old-timey band I caught on Royal Street in New Orleans Saturday. They’re called the Loose Marbles.

Still working out how to shoot video with the new camera, as you can see by the (lack of) focus.

We’ll go with “Falling Down,” the Redwalls tribute to the FCC’s obscenity rules. I don’t know about the accompanying drawings. This was the only non-live version I could find on YouTube.

Light posting today because my Wifi has been down most of the day. I happened to be watching the Frontline episode on John O’Neill when the repair guy arrived. (Highly recommend the Frontline episode, by the way.) This led to the repair guy not only fixing my Wifi, but also explaining to me how there’s no possible way a plane could have crashed into the Pentagon on September 11. Apparently, it’s all in the skid marks.

Here’s “Kings,” by Nashville favorites the Cold Stares. Recorded in my living room.

Half of early rock ‘n’ roll’s best songwriting duo has died. Here are my three favorite Leiber & Stoller songs, not necessarily by the artists that made them famous.

Pour Me Coffee’s Twitter account reminds me that today is the late John Lee Hooker’s birthday. And that this duet with Van Morrison is one of the great songs-to-brood-to ever made.