Stephen Yeargin

Today marks the first day of summer, although the weather we have been having for the last month would beg to differ. If the official start of seasons were determined by average temperatures rather than dates on a calendar, we have been in “summer” for quite some time. Sunday we were out in the heat [...]

This morning Samantha and I packed up and went to Ugly Mugs for a few hours to enjoy the beautiful weather and to get our caffeine fix. The coffee shop has become a bit of a feature in our weekend routine, giving Samantha a chance to write (or at least, outline) and me a chance [...]

This is not so much a review for Shazam, even though I personally believe that it is the best free application on my iPhone. Instead, it is about a way forward for radio and the music industry as a whole. The application can tag almost any music it records with the accurate song title and [...]

I am unusually awake for a Friday morning, listening to music and glancing around various places on the Internet. The playlist is as mellow as possible (John Mayer and Eric Clapton soulful guitar), with a bit more up tempo material (Cold Play, Matchbox 20) to get the heart pumping a bit faster. I think I [...]

Slow, mellow music has filled my iTunes playlist this evening. No particular reason; it just seems to go better with the early spring evening. Any other night it might be something a bit more high energy, but that just does not fit the atmosphere. My time away from work has become a somewhat predictable routine [...]

Tonight we went to a concert at the Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church of Country Music and a large cornerstone in the Music City, USA moniker that sets Nashville apart. But our pilgrimage was not for a country performance but instead for a rock-folk fusion packaged in a short woman named Ani DiFranco. I thought [...]

I downloaded “Christmas in Fallujah” off iTunes after hearing a bit about the song itself. Billy Joel wrote the song but had no desire to sing it because he did not believe he had the right voice for it. For that, he chose Cass Dillon. It probably will not be unseating “White Christmas” from its [...]

Hockey season is back in Nashville despite some uncertainty earlier this summer. Samantha and I went to the game Saturday night (Predators 5, Hurricanes 1) with some club-level tickets from her employer. Her company jumped on the the season ticket push bandwagon, and I am incredibly grateful for it. It has always been one of [...]

I did something today that I am not particularly proud of. No, it was not that I bowled a 58 in the second game at the company outing (the first game was a 104, still the lowest score on my foursome). No, it was not that I impulsively came home from that outing and immediately [...]

Last Friday (Aug. 3) we went to the John Mayer and Ben Folds concert (with special guest James Morrison) at the Sommet Center. It was the first time I had ever attended a concert at the arena, so I opted for the club seats to stay away from the screaming teenagers. No such luck. Between [...]