Various Artists - Other Side: Music from East Nashville / Various

There's more great music coming out of zip code 37206 than any place in the country, and this double-CD compilation is proof. You can't swing a cat around East Nashville without hitting a great musician. Songwriters cause traffic jams at the local coffee shop. Sidewalks are crowded with folks like Todd Snider, Garrison Starr, Paul Burch, Elizabeth Cook, Kevin Gordon, Last Train Home, Thad Cockrell, Chely Wright. This CD's got them allâ€"and tons more-30 tracks that benefit an East Nashville community service group, the Martha O'Bryan Center, offering employment and education services to the neediest of our community’s residents. East Nashville: prepare to be amazed at how much great music is coming from such a small patch of land. This stellar CD has plenty of new and previously unreleased material. Check out: -Last Train Home's brand new rocker, 'Last Good Kiss' -Chely Wright's intimate 'Wish Me Away,' with pedal steel legend Lloyd Green playing a coda that brings tears to your eyes. -Matthew Ryan's brand new 'Misundercould.' -Thad Cockrell's gorgeous 'Senselessly Blue.' -Garrison Starr's duet with Neilsen Hubbard, 'Try.' -Eric Fritsch's techno remix of Stephen Simmons' song, 'Drink Ring Jesus.' -Music writer Peter Cooper's scathing 'Ol' Strom,' part hilarious, part sadder'n hell. -And finally, hear what Todd Snider has to say about East Nashville on this set's final song, 'From a Rooftop,' recorded especially for this compilation. It sums up perfectly how these musicians feel about East Nashville.

1) Todd Snider Some Things Are
2) Last Train Home Last Good Kiss
3) Claire Small Rewind
4) Jon Langford Poem John Peel
5) Paul Burch John Peel
6) Dave Coleman Closing Door
7) Elizabeth Cook Don't Bother Me
8) Jon Byrd Jackknife
9) Amelia White Black Doves
10) Kevin Gordon 24 Diamonds
11) Peter Cooper Ol' Strom
12) Thad Cockrell Senselessly Blue
13) Chely Wright Wish Me Away
14) Mack Starks Orphan
15) Matthew Ryan Misundercould
16) Stephen Simmons ; Eric Fritsch Drink Ring Jesus (Remix)
17) Kieran Kane Hysteria
18) Tim Carroll Five Year Town
19) Garrison Starr Try
20) Steve Wedemeyer Matchbox of Promises
21) Tom Mason Ramblin'
22) Sergio Webb a Better Place to Be
23) Rick Clark Crack in the Sky
24) Jennifer Niceley Nightwalk
25) Casey Driessen the Confusion Before Dreams
26) Circus Dog Serenade Nothing Is Wrong
27) K.S. Rhoads Dead Language
28) Meghan Hayes Birthday in the Pawn Shop
29) Rich Gilbert 400 Miles to Go
30) The Skylighters Nevertheless
31) Todd Snider from a Rooftop