Track By Track: Forget Cassettes – Salt

I believe this is what you might call synergy. I run a podcast called We Own This Town: Music that highlights local Nashville music. I also run a small indie label called yk Records that, primarily, releases music from Nashville based artists. The latest episode of WOTT Music is a lengthy interview with one of my yk Records artists discussing a very personally influential record released in 2006; and re-issued by yk in 2022. Forget Cassettes was formed in the early 2000's and I've been an ardent follower since the very first show (literally!). The sophomore album Salt was never issued on vinyl until this year when yk released it and I couldn't be more happy to help them celebrate the sixteen year anniversary.

It was a treat to sit down with Beth Cameron, Jay Leo Phillips and Aaron Ford to discuss how the album came together. They were kind enough to spend a length amount of time going over each track, discussing what they remember about the writing, recording and overall evolutionary process of the whole thing.

I've always wanted the label and the podcast to serve as a bit of historical documentation for the local music scene that I enjoy so much. With this particular episode, I think I checked both boxes quite well.

You can listen to the episode in the embed above, over on the WOTT site, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you prefer. I hope you'll give both the album and the podcast a listen.