Red Beet Records

Track Listing

1. 1. Silent NightListen

2. 2. Little Drummer BoyListen

3. 3. Home From ChristmasListen

4. 4. Bringing in a Brand New YearListen

5. 5. Louisiana SnowListen

6. 6. A Kiss for ChristmasListen

7. 7. (I Wanna Spend My) Christmas Time With YouListen

8. 8. Cool Yule Listen

9. 9. Silent NightListen

10. 10. Just Like Christmas EveListen

11. 11. Christmas RainListen

12. 12. Y Corryn Ar Pry’Listen

13. 13. Dominick the Donkey Listen

14. 14. Christmas Kisses (With Kookaburras) Listen

15. 15. Santa’s on a Diet

16. 16. This ChristmasListen

17. 17. Hark the Herald Angels SingListen

18. 18. GreensleevesListen

19. 19. Tighten Up - Merry Christmas

20. 20. Django Bells

21. 21. End of the Year

22. 22. Christmas Alphabet

23. 23. Holiday Season

24. 24. Snow

25. 25. Away in the Manger

26. 26. Black Friday Blues

27. 27. It Ain’t Christmas

28. 28. Holiday Blues

29. 29. Sleigh Ride

30. 30. It’s the Thought That Counts

31. 31. My (One and Only) Christmas Song

32. 32. Snowbound

33. 33. Do You Ever Think of Me?

34. 34. Kosher for Christmas

35. 35. Talking Christmas Post-9/11 Anti-Terrorist Blues

36. 36. What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

37. 37. What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

Reviews

• Nashville Scene
  YULETIDE FROM THE OTHER SIDE CD RELEASE Local-band compilations are notoriously hit-and-miss, but this collection of holiday numbers from a predominantly East Nashville crowd bats well over .500.
  
  Over the River and Through the Woods
  YULETIDE FROM THE OTHER SIDE CD RELEASE Local-band compilations are notoriously hit-and-miss, but this collection of holiday numbers from a predominantly East Nashville crowd bats well over .500. Some of the highlights: Cerys Matthews’ “Y Corryn Ar Pry’,” which is thoroughly haunting, despite being sung in Celtic; Circus Dog Serenade’s take on late Morphine frontman Mark Sandman’s “Snow” (particularly poignant since Sandman was a friend of Circus Dog’s Jamie Rubin); Meghan Hayes’ “Kosher for Christmas” (featuring the line, “Why eat ham to celebrate our favorite Jew?”); Jennifer Niceley’s sassy version of Billy Ward’s “Bringing in a Brand New Year”; and Sara Beck’s sweet “Just Like Christmas Eve.” (Beck, incidentally, sang one of her own songs with Stevie Wonder at last week’s Sommet Center show—you can’t get much holier than that.) Proceeds from CD sales benefit EarthMatters NetWORKS, an East Nashville environmental organization. 4-8 p.m. at Family Wash —JACK SILVERMAN
   
• The Tennessean
  Eric Brace of Red Beet Records released a follow-up to "The Other Side: Music From East Nashville" just in time for Christmas.
  
  "Yuletide from the Other Side: More Music from East Nashville" features traditional and original Christmas tracks from East Nashville artists.
  
  
  RED BEET RECORDS RELEASES SECOND EAST NASHVILLE CD
  
  Eric Brace of Red Beet Records released a follow-up to "The Other Side: Music From East Nashville" just in time for Christmas.
  
  "Yuletide from the Other Side: More Music from East Nashville" features traditional and original Christmas tracks from East Nashville artists.
  
  The CD release party will be held 4-8 p.m. Sunday Dec. 9 at Family Wash, and Grimey's will host an in-store event from 3-5 p.m. Dec. 15.
  
  "I was really happy to see that most people wanted to contribute original tracks," Brace said. " The covers of more traditional tunes (like Diana Jones singing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," or the Gypsy Hombres' gypsy jazz take on "Jingle Bells") are all pretty distinct, but they are the minority, by far. Most are originals, never before released."
  
  As was the first one, the Yuletide CD is a benefit collection; proceeds this year will go toward East Nashville-based Earth Matters Networks. Purchase the CD at Art & Invention Gallery, Family Wash, Bongo Java (East Nashville only), 5 Spot, Grimey's, Katie K's, Alegria, Turnip Truck and Margaret Maddox YMCA.
  
• The Rage
  By Jason Moon Wilkins
  Oct 26, 2006
  
  "The Other Side: Music From East Nashville" CD Release Show.
  
  Last Train Home leader Eric Brace moved to East Nashville from Washington D.C. a few years ago, and he has been entrenched in the East Side's obscenely rich music scene ever since.
  
  At some point, Brace looked around and thought what many musicians and music lovers have thought before him: "I have to do something about this. People have to hear this music." But unlike most folks with big dreams and shallow pockets, Brace was able to scrape up enough cash to cobble together a fairly comprehensive collection showcasing East Nashville's Americana and roots rock community.
  
  The resulting double-disc compilation appropriately begins and ends with tunes by the man many consider to be the best songwriter living in East Nashville, and the artist who immortalized the "other side" on his five-star CD "East Nashville Skyline," Todd Snider. If that sounds like a somewhat guarded compliment -- best songwriter in East Nashville, as opposed to, say, the entire city -- just listen to the other 29 artists on "The Other Side," from authentic roots original Paul Burch to insightful rock tunesmith Mack Starks, and you can hear why that is truly something to brag about.
  
  Of course, it is a compilation, so there are some musical clunkers in the mix, but even the lesser songs serve as a way to includes some of the scenes essential characters whose artistry may not be up to par with their peers but whose efforts have been important in the development of the community.
  
  Assembling such collections is a ruthlessly thankless task (we're sure Brace is already getting reamed by bile-spewing bloggers angry that their band wasn't included), and it's extremely easy to point out all the deserving voices not represented on "The Other Side," but as a snapshot of a very focused part of an eclectic scene, it works.
  
  The set is beautifully packaged and comes complete with short, smart descriptions of every artist and song that give excellent encapsulated intros to the work of these underappreciated artists. Brace has a national perspective on this music and this scene, thus his collection was built to have a broad appeal far beyond Nashville's city limits. You can imagine this set sitting in Starbucks alongside other such compilations, or being acclaimed on NPR and Amazon. For this reason -- the additional opportunity for this music to be heard by a broader audience -- if nothing else, Eric Brace deserves a pat on the back, and a shot of something strong.
  
• The Yummy List
  By Holly Gleason
  
  Eric Brace honed his eye covering culture, especially music, for The Washington Post - yet the sweet-faced musico/songwriter's love of words and melodies permeates his compilation celebrating Music City's shadow music scene. A hotbed of creativity that exists beyond the big rigs and mondo-numbers of Music Row, E. Nashville's fertile ground let Brace plant the of classic Americana band Last Train Home. Giving back to the scene and the Martha O'Bryan Center, which provides education and employment services to local people, this double disc set was born.
  Recognizing what is so obvious, yet so unseen, he gathered the tribes -- journeyman Todd Snider who bookends the project with the tenderly insightful “Some Things Are” and “From A Rooftop,” rock upstart Matthew Ryan, critic and incisive humorist grasser Peter Cooper, old school country thrush Elizabeth Cook, almost trance-folkie Kieran Kane, post-Westerburg punk/sweetness from Steve Wedemeyer, the brittle fragility of images from Stephen Simmons & Eric Fritsch and the gypsy violin- and cello-drenched'n'etched serenading of Circus Dog Serenade. As engaging as a Starbucks or Putamayo compilation, this can be loaded, forgotten and enjoyed deeply.
  Bonus: To celebrate the release, many of these artists will be appearing at Nashville's celebrated alternative venues The Basement on Oct. 27 and the Family Wash on Oct. 28. Experience a boiling over scene live and alive.