Living in Austin, it is hard to stay home. The strains of music seeping out from the clubs beckons to you. The enticement of the Austin Chronicle’s list is such, that it is better not to look at all if you don’t want to wind up out somewhere. And I am trying really hard to not be out all the time. It is counterproductive to having day things to do, and there are plenty of those too! Austin is not the only city where the muses call one’s name. Nashville would be another city with too many choices every evening. One of the more recent musts is Music City Roots on Wednesday nights at the Loveless Barn. It is an outgrowth of the Loveless Café, which first started serving its famous fried chicken and biscuits in 1951 at picnic tables in the front yard. They converted the rooms of the early 1900′s home into a dining room for folks driving on US Highway 100, and the food is well worth the trip, not far from Nashville.

Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe is a weekly, two-hour event and radio show that brings together different roots styles, from country and Americana and beyond. Today’s video was filmed there, from JP Harris & The Tough Choices, a band on the move. They hit the Northeast in support of their just-released debut album, I'll Keep Calling. They were in Nashville, then headed down to Texas. There are June and July dates in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and on and on. They'll be back up in the Northeast at the end of July for the Lowell Folk Festival. Whew.

Loving the old school approach here. This is “Badly Bent,” one of the songs you will find on their new album, filmed at Music City Roots a couple of weeks ago.

- Jessie Scott