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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I had my first experience hearing someone be fooled by an AI artist in real time. A woman requested this at my local bar and I knew immediately it wasn’t from 1953 as anyone with ears should have. Shame on @bandcamp.com for allowing this slop to distract from real artists they claim to support.

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Ain’t No Man Alive Can Handle Me, by Bertha Mae Lightning

track by Bertha Mae Lightning

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

RIP Max Eider. A cool older friend recommended The Jazz Butcher when I was 15 and the comp Draining The Glass has been a sacred musical text to me ever since. I was lucky enough to see them in 1999 and will never forget it. This video seems fitting since it’s so unpretentious and max is on lead vox

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D.R.I.N.K.

YouTube video by BrianDmage

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I’m not a big #recordstoreday guy but I couldn’t resist the Son Volt reissue. Hearing demos of those songs that have always seemed eternal and like they were manifested into existence is kind of unnerving. I consider Trace to be among the few musical sacred texts of my life.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Now that Fat Bear Week is over is Hegseth going to host Fat Generals Week on Fox News? Maybe Linda McMahon can make a call and it can be an exclusive PPV event.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I don’t know if anyone in Western Mass even follows me here but I’m selling a collection of bluegrass vinyl if there is somehow anyone interested. I’d rather not take the time to ship it but I guess I can if someone’s willing to spend the money. I’ll sell individually if I’m unable to move the lot.

westernmass.craigslist.org

Classic Bluegrass/Old Timey/Folk Vinyl Collection 100LPs - cds / dvds / vhs - by owner - electronics media sale -...

This collection is chock full of bluegrass classics and lots of reissues of early country and old timey as well as some mountain music field recording type comps. Included are several original King,.....

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Greenfield Mass #nokings. More clown wigs than Trump hats. One sad little rusted old truck surrounded by the resistance.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Picked this up from a friend for 15 cents when we were drunk. There are many other songs with the same title and several versions of a couple of those but none as good as this country disco banger. Of course I’m biased toward New England country artists and also obscure ones so your mileage may vary

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Sharlene Hooper "Not Tonight I've Got A Heartache"

YouTube video by wilburscott

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

After two solid crowds for the March and April meetings of Twang Club the Voo has booked me for 2nd Thursdays through August. I think this time I’ll focus on Horny Country inspired by the Loretta song Spring Fever. Way more fun than my first idea of songs about flowers.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Continuing to do my part to provide a small bit of musical distraction from the demise of democracy. Let’s get twangy and weird and drunk. Planning on more cowpunk and Western swing this time.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I was thinking today that maybe the burgeoning progressive alternative to the tea party should be the Town Hall Party. Then I remembered why that sounded so familiar.

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Johnny Cash at Town Hall Party 1958/ Part 1

YouTube video by Katzeleine

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

After years of being a hardcore honkytonk purist my ears softened to string sections in some country records from the 70s back but I just do not understand the resurgence in recent years. I’m not sure if it’s the producers or the artists making the call but they still make most songs sound cheesy AF

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It better not freaking snow this time.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Tonight someone said I was “here for the vibes” and that is my new goal in life. To always be there for the vibes. Fuck everything else.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If the US stops making pennies does that mean it’ll now be “a nickel for your thoughts”. I thought he was going to do something about inflation.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just picked up this Carl Perkins record. It came out on a tiny label in 67 between his UK rediscovery in the mid 60s and re-rediscovery in the 70s. This is one of 4 great originals. Some tracks remind me of a less funky Tony Joe White, others a modernized TN Ernie Ford with a little Roger Miller too

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Carl Perkins - Home (That's Where The Heart Is)

YouTube video by Tom Page (Real Country)

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I know the world is on fire but all the more reason to hang out and listen to country records in Western Mass. Think of it as the “answer song” to Valentine’s Day. 2/15 8pm at The Voo in Turners Falls. No cover. Country song bingo if anyone wants to play.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I kinda thought it would take until at least the second episode of the trumpocalypse limited series before the planes would start falling out of the sky. Usually the zombies have to take over before that happens. Oh wait.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hard to hear that Wayne Hancock is having such a rough time. There are no words for what Thunderstorms and Neon Signs meant to me when I was in high school. I don’t have a lot of extra $ to contribute but I have a DJ gig coming up and will be taking donations to send to his gofundme.

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Donate to Keep Wayne on the Road: Winter Relief Fund., organized by Sebastien Bordeaux

Help Wayne Survive Winter Hello, I’m Sebastien Bordeaux, and I've h… Sebastien Bordeaux needs your support for Keep Wayne on the Road: Winter Relief Fund.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Fair warning to anyone in New England DO NOT trust the tire inflation machines at Cumby’s. I set the machine to inflate my tires to the correct amount of 33 and 35 and they were all up to 40 when I brought my car in thinking one was low because my alert went on.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Two things that get me excited about a record are “recorded in 10 days” and “co-producer Shooter Jennings.” More records should have those two things going for them.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Last week was a terrible week to be a federal employee but this weekend was a great weekend to be in Western Mass. Two awesome shows, friends old and new everywhere I went, great beers at Floodwater and shawarma from the food truck in Shelburne Falls and ribs from North Village Smokehouse. Hell yeah

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

More like “More Sparks with Farts.” I look forward to the addition of fart lighting as the newest event at the greenfield winter carnival. #westass

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Excited to finally try the new west coast IPA from Incandescent Brewing in Bernardston, MA. I can’t think of another western mass beer that has a crisper combo of citrus and bitterness with a cleaner finish. The best west coast IPAs around here usually lean towards piney, grassy or dank. #beersky

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The rare exception to Betteridge’s law of headlines. Also, duh.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Not sure what my dad did to necessitate writing this to my mom but it feels like a good sentiment to put out there now.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It’s nice to see Western Mass finally taking steps to act more regionally. We’ve been held back for so long by the provincial thinking of all these small towns fighting for funding scraps from the state and duplicating efforts that would be more successful when combined together. More of this please

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Pilot program would add downtown coordinator for Shelburne Falls, Turners Falls and Northfield

Three Franklin County communities — Turners Falls, Shelburne Falls and Northfield — are set to be part of a pilot program adding a shared rural downtown coordinator position to lead revitalization eff...

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

RIP Melba Montgomery one of my favorite country singers. Too often thought of as just a duet partner not only did she release many incredible solo records she wrote a ton of her own songs including the first song in this video the B side of her second release. Good luck getting it out of your head.

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Melba Montgomery — Happy You, Lonely Me / I'm No Longer in Your Heart (~1962)

YouTube video by k8track

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Speaking of Ringo this is one of the best things I’ve found so far while going through my parents letters from the 60s. My dad was working at the Library of Congress at the time not long before being called up for Vietnam. My great grandfather included this clipping and a note that read…

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A new Gary Louris song is always a cause for celebration but a stripped down Gary Louris song with Gary Louris harmonizing with Gary Louris even more so. youtu.be/Z5rs6tRVT8g?...

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Getting Older (Official Video)

YouTube video by Gary Louris

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I’ve been scanning the 1000+ letters (yeah, really) my grandparents sent each other during WWII and can’t help but wonder if my grandpa who died in 1980 would have been a Blue Sky or Truth Social guy. And if my grandma who died in 1990 would have been sending dank memes. Also V-Mails are annoying.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Don’t tell me boss but while my office is being renovated and we’re working from home I’ve started taking dance breaks to old records. I was thinking maybe I should make a rockabilly exercise video and call it twangercise. Only problem is I can’t actually dance. youtu.be/9BXUdxNi1j8 #vinylcommunity

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Gram Parsons - I Can't Dance

YouTube video by Fernando Vieira

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I somehow don’t think I’d ever heard this incredible song until a few weeks ago. When I did I listened to it probably 30+ times in a couple days. I’ve been thinking about it again in lieu of the Brian Thompson murder and the way the Internet has turned Mangione into a folk hero youtu.be/ooaMFtzn5uQ

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James Talley - Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again

YouTube video by Mané João

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Always fun finding a funky tonk gem with no info available online. Especially when it costs 16 cents. That mystery pile of 45s from my buddy is paying off in spite of the mostly terrible 70s country. This tune has a tight groove and then the fiddle hits. It happens to be just under 30 seconds #vinyl

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Sometimes I come up with silly tshirt ideas. This one was inspired by the film Janet Planet in that it made me realize how many times I had uttered the words “not quite a cult” while telling stories about Western Mass communes and history. It seemed like a fitting slogan. dearmisterward.com/antifun

A tshirt design that says “Western Mass, Not Quite A Cult”

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Get yerself a friend who has boxes full of 45s he’s never listened to and then pull out ones he definitely won’t want and offer to take 45 of them off his hands for $7 without hearing them or checking condition and you might just end up with a gem like this killer DAC cover #vinylcommunity

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Take This Job And Shove It - Ona Watson - 1978

YouTube video by The Vintage Soul Machine

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

As per usual People’s Pint in Greenfield, Mass knocks it out of the park with their red ale tribute to Ray McNeill of the dearly missed McNeill’s brewery in Brattleboro, VT. It’s sending my taste buds back in time to the early 00s when I used to get a Firehouse Red bomber on my way home from work

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Another Aussie dollar bin blind buy. Apparently not considered their best album but I dig it. Yet another for my ever expanding shelf of power pop/new wave records that I don’t play as often as I should. 1st track was probably the highlight for me but a bunch of good tunes. #vinylcommunity

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I just looked at the Black Friday @recordstoreday.bsky.social list and as usual it’s full of an absurdly priced rainbow of vinyl. Anyone who is thinking of buying the $30 Buck Owens-Tiger By The Tail reissue I’ve got 3 NM original monos I’ll sell you for $25 each. All of which I got for under $5

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I guess until the video limit/quality is increased instaspam will still be necessary to keep tabs on musicians, comedians, etc. I don’t envy them trying to rebuild their following on another platform while trying to survive as an artist. At least @jennydont.bsky.social is here to start the party.

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Evan Gregg @djbrewfoot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Figured my first post should be my best dollar bin find in a while, maybe ever. Truly killer Australian #cowpunk of the janglier variety. Up there with the best of rhe genre #vinylcommunity #recordcollecting #cratedigging #vinyl #vinylcollecting

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