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The We Own This Town Eight Hour 2022 Celebration

posted December 29, 2022 #

Throughout a calendar year, I constantly compile new releases from the Nashville music scene and share them on my podcast - We Own This Town: Music. It's a passion project that results in hundreds of songs for a given year. It's not everything released but it's a healthy amount.

At the end of every year I pick through all those tracks and make my own "Highly Enjoyed" playlist. It's subjective, of course, but it's a great compilation of songs. Every year the playlist is incredibly long but I just randomly pick 20 tracks and turn that into a "selective retrospective" episode for the show. But not this year...

This year I decided, why not put the entire playlist into one episode? Who says you can't have an eight hour podcast episode? Sure, the likelihood of anyone actually listening to the entire thing is slim to say the least but the end result will be a pretty robust document of the year's music. So, that's what I did.

The Eight Hour 2022 Celebration is exactly that. Eight hours of local Nashville music all compiled into one episode of a podcast. I chunked it out into hour segments and sequenced everything thematically. It's a good listen if I do say so myself.

It's not holistic as I can't physically hear everything released in a calendar year but it's a solid offering. I'm proud of it... even if I do recognize that eight hours is absolutely absurd.