Big Meme Energy, Nashville 80’s Music with Alex Steed

The podcast Nashville Demystified has been doing a 10-part series looking at Nashville in the 1980s. It's a really fascinating series that covers how different the landscape of the city was during that time (including, but not limited to, an anecdote about a US Congressman named Bill Boner going undercover to learn about the homeless population with the pseudonym Hoot Jackson - no joke).

Inspired by this series, I decided to do some research on what the Nashville Music Scene was like during that decade. After much googling and cross referencing and sampling of songs, I came up with this episode of WOTT Music. Nashville Demystified host Alex Steed joined me for the recording as we listen to 9 songs of New Wave, Punk and Glorious Saxophone. We had a blast and I think the music is phenomenal.

It is wild to me to imagine any band during that era to have the resources to record, mix, master, produce artwork and distribute music on any scale. Several of these bands only produced 2-4 songs in total, an understandable limitation given how much harder it was to make music at that time.

Give it a listen and consider subscribing on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, etc. We have fun.