Happy 2022, we’re dusting off the old year with a watch of Season 3 Episode 13 of Nashville, featuring Deacon’s sadsack cancer prognosis, Avery the producer being micro-managed by Bucky with the no hair, Rayna versus Jeff Fordham, the bean counter from Harvard, over who has daughter Maddie’s musical contract, and hey for good measure why not a new addition to the Bungalow Bachelor Boys? It’s all happening in Tennessee this week.
059 - I'VE GOT REASONS TO HATE YOU
Deacon needs a new liver, so Scarlett calls her mother in, maybe fills a bathtub full of ice and preps a rusty knife just for her own sense of vengeance. Johnny runs through the compelling nature of Maddie Conrad being considered a potential next Taylor Swift in the eyes of Harvard’s pre-eminent beancounter Jeff Fordham, and Andrew firmly embraces a new form of sexuality through Blue Sky thinking.
057 - SEASON 3 PART 1 SOUNDTRACK
It’s mid-season fi-party time and Johnny is taking Andrew track-by-track through the season’s first half in songs. Chill out, relax, we’re putting on a playlist, chatting about an art neither of us are fungible with and engaging in the fact that Charles Esten wrote and performed one song on this album and that’s far too few for any good human.
042 - CRAZY
Things start to get out of hand on tour when Scarlett’s mother stops by, whilst the Teddy/Rayna/Deacon situation causes Nashville to enlist an EGOT winner, what a coup! Andrew and Johnny discuss Gunnar’s royalty cheque, and whether he even deserves any kind of money for his art.
041 - YOUR WILD LIFE'S GONNA GET YOU DOWN
What happens when a new single release is a flop, a big engagement announcement is questionably fast and two different fathers feud over how to parent their daughter? Well, you got yourself an episode of Nashville Season 2! That’s right, we’re talking Will Lexington going straight, Deacon versus Teddy and a side amount of Scarlett and Avery doing some good ol’ fashioned songwriting, Nashville style!
039 - GUILTY STREET
Hanging out and watching Nashville Season 2, Episode 16, Andrew and Johnny break down Deacon’s road stories, Juliette’s record-label hunting, Scarlett and Liam’s relationship and Will Lexington in a hat. Some things never change, whilst other things change a lot. That’s a generic statement that is very true, as always.
032 - TOMORROW NEVER COMES
On the season 2 Mid-Season finale Music City plays host to a Music Festival, where loves, businesses and gossip stories run rampant. Andrew is mopping up the juice and Johnny is dishing the deets, running through Jeff Fordham on Jeopardy, hair height of Gunnar Scott and multiple Tandy/Rayna sister hang-out scenes. Who will live? Who will die? Who will still be stuck in isolation?
030 - HANKY PANKY WOMAN
Luke ‘Hands Off The’ Wheeler is starting his stadium tour and Scarlett’s got a bit opener to go. Juliette’s kink-shaming a couple, Jeff’s counting beans, Gunnar’s writing a song, Rayna is spending time with men, and Teddy is the mayor of Nashville still. Andrew and Johnny spend time discussing the logistics of the ongoing Tampa-stadium-shows of it all, and prepare for another classic last-minute Rayna James Sorts Things Out With A Live Performance story beat.
024 - NEVER NO MORE
It’s a relaxing day backstage at the Bluebird Cafe, a perfect time to catch up with the events in Nashville, like Deacon’s guitar playing future, Juliette’s Conan appearance and the arrival of Oliver Hudson to the show. Johnny has lots of show notes, but Andrew is more interested in declaring Scarlett the next Dolly Parton, and he has the receipts.
022 - NASHVILLE SEASON ONE SOUNDTRACK
Johnny compiles the multi-disc soundtrack releases for the TV show and the two go track-by-track discussing the songs, context in the show, and have a lot of fun in this break between seasons.
021 - I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE
THE SEASON FINALE IS HERE!
There’s a lot of plots ramping up, but Deacon is spending his time making crazy noises upon the discovery of a daughter he barely knew. People come in through the back way, the Bluebird returns to the show, drinks, deaths and Daddys come home to roost. Where are we at, so deep into lockdown, remembering the times we could hang out, singing and dealing with potential indictments.
020 - A PICTURE FROM LIFE'S OTHER SIDE
It’s the penultimate episode of season 1, Johnny is excited about all the moving and shaking in the world of Nashville, and Andrew is mostly concerned with protecting Scarlett from all the bad people out there trying to hurt her, even accidentally, for their own gain. Will the return of Dante change anything? Will we run the Jolene joke into the ground? Will Big Deac Energy ever stop working on us?
019 - WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME
Deacon gives away his dog. I guess there are other storylines in this week’s episode, but Andrew gets significantly hung up on Deacon giving Sue away so suddenly. What is Nashville without the iconic Deacon/Sue partnership of the past few weeks? Johnny feels like Will Lexington and Scarlett are gonna be the BFFs of the year, and can’t seem to get Andrew’s head around who is biologically related to whom.
018 - TAKE THESE CHAINS FROM MY HEART
It’s our longest episode, because there’s stuff to get to with the world of Country Music in Nashville. Juliette is succumbing to Dante’s peak, and it throws Deacon, Jolene and the whole industry into a tailspin. Meanwhile, Johnny’s love for new character Will Lexington continues to confuse Andrew, and has made it so Johnny can no longer remember the term ‘Roadie’, nor the Showtime hit TV show Roadies.
017 - MY HEART WOULD KNOW
It’s a new year for the podcast, and the same season for Nashville. We bounce between New York and the titular town to discover Dante’s side-hustle with the Barnes ladies, Avery’s new gig, Will/Ted Lexington’s take on dealing with death, and how many people call Lamar ‘Daddy’ when he’s unconscious.
011 - YOU WIN AGAIN
There’s some real catty attitudes abound with Andrew and Johnny this week. An episode full of big emotional monologues and shock moments has Andrew getting angry and hurt in equal measure, as Johnny kindly lays out the continuing adventures of those wacky musicians in the titular town. Will Ming-Na Wen be the game-changer of the season, or another complication for everyone on the show?
010 - I'M SORRY FOR YOU, MY FRIEND
It’s the day of the election in Nashville, and the mayoral race comes down to this episode. It is also the election of the United States, and some of the aftermath is mentioned throughout the recording, Andrew falls into the charms of Big Deac Energy, and references A Serious Man non-stop, as Johnny frets about guitarists and the landscape of American politics in 2013 and 2020. A healthy episode of healthy, mentally-fit humans enjoying a TV show during a perfectly normal year.
009 - BE CAREFUL OF STONES THAT YOU THROW
It’s 2013 on Nashville, and the week before the election Backstage at the Bluebird Cafe, so tensions are high, hopes are breaking, and love is forming around so many people. Deacon is taking centre stage in the Revel Kings, Scarlett and Gunnar are going through heartbreaks, Rayna and Juliette’s tour might save their personal lives, and there’s a big game of ‘Who’s Your Daddy’ at play. Packed ep? Of course, we’d not have it any other way.
007 - LOVESICK BLUES
Scarlett and Avery’s fallout looms large over an episode about togetherness, redressing the balance, and of course Nashville geography. Johnny gets to talk Johnny Cash, Andrew discusses songs that slap, and there’s hope building for the future of the show, the city and the podcast in a fun filled episode.
006 - YOU'RE GONNA CHANGE (OR I'M GONNA LEAVE)
A not-so-routine traffic stop leads the conversation as Johnny and Andrew stay active in this trying time. Rayna hangs out with a new producer, Juliette has a PR date, Avery and Scarlett are definitely forever, and the town of Nashville will never have any dramatic things happening within it, so long as we keep vigil on the show.