Christina Aguilera is still hanging around Nashville as her character Jade St. John, the pop star looking for country music legitimacy, but at the Bluebird that’s only ever one story being told. This week sees the potential for a new liver transplant, a big charity gala, band auditions, a li’l bit of gay sex and a lot of Daphne Conrad without any of her family to help her perform. Only Andrew and Johnny can navigate waters as deep and soapy as these.
065 - NOBODY KNOWS BUT ME
Juliette has a baby name! And it’s been 3 weeks. Avery and Scarlett and Gunner’s band are doing an interview! And it’s been 3 weeks. Deacon and Rayna are living together! And it’s been 3 weeks. Jeff is being Layla’s manager! And it’s been 3 weeks. Maddie and Colton are dating and Andrew has the inside scoop! And it’s been 3 weeks. Johnny and Andrew are taking the Bluebird to the London O2 for Country2Country this weekend! And it’s been 3 years.
063 - I CAN'T KEEP AWAY FROM YOU
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of opening a fresh episode of Nashville and smelling the aromas inside. This week, with Season 3 Episode 16, the familiar scents include Rayna and Deacon in their remote home together, Gunnar, Scarlett and Avery on the road, two more recent characters randomly meeting to pad a run time, and Juliette Barnes in Facetime: The Shot Three Scenes In Two Hours Story.
062 - THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES
Rayna’s celebrating 10 years of being part of The Grand Ole Opry with a concert, whilst Layla and Jeff plan Layla Grant’s next career move, Scarlett goes on a Doctor Date and, hey, why don’t Avery and Gunnar spend an episode thinking of band names? Don’t fret, Andrew regails us with memories of his friendship with Colton ‘Colt’ Wheeler, a young man Andrew has had the pleasure of witnessing at the breakfast table wearing a baseball cap. That’s real intimate friendship there.
061 - SOMEBODY PICK UP MY PIECES
Goodbye Edgehill-brick road, where the beancounters of Harvard hound. You can’t plant me in your record label, I’m going back to Nashville!
There’s a huge fallout when the big label is disbanded, every artist is up for grabs, and somehow Jeff Fordham the bean counter from Harvard has sparked a love affair with the way-too-young woman he pushed to near-suicide just weeks ago. Andrew dives deep into his own bad-time-at-a-job experiences, and Johnny runs through so many different storylines in this packed episode about a packed episode.
060 - I'M LOST BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG
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.
058 - I'M NOT THAT GOOD AT GOODBYE
Layna/Ruke is no more, and it’s Wheels Up on Luke’s party-time angerfest, but more importantly Jeff Fordham, the bean counter from Harvard, is dealing with covering up an attempted suicide and a party gone wrong, whilst Will Lexington has to play the gay card on his recently-drowning wife to get the most sympathy from her on the hospital bed. That’s Johnny’s favourite character, and now we know why…
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.
055 - TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY
It’s Winterville Nashfest in Season 3 Episode 9 of the show, and Juliette is stalking Avery, Will and Layla are trying to avoid reality TV stans, Zoe is leaving ZAG, Scarlett is forcing a homeless man to dance for a crowd, and Rayna & Luke (Layna? Ruke?) are recording their charity TV Christmas special, which sounds absolutely wonderful and not at all cringe-worthy. What larks the herald angels will sing upon this week’s Nashville outing?
054 - YOU'RE LOOKIN' AT COUNTRY
It’s the Country Music Awards and everyone in Nashville has some claim to stake, but more importantly a storyline about a missing child brings Andrew and Johnny to open up about tales from their own pasts in this very funny, hopeful episode
053 - I'M COMING HOME TO YOU
In a horny episode of the podcast, Andrew thirsts for Daddy Gunnar, Johnny examines the wonder of Scarlett helping Terry, and best friend Colt makes out with Maddie to get on the cover of Rolling Stone. Also examined: the pre-release festival cycle of Juliette Barnes’ new biopic.
052 - NOBODY SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE EASY
Gunnar’s got a kid, Juliette’s in the hospital, Deacon’s written a song and Maddie’s making out with her soon-to-be step-brother. Nashville is a very normal drama where humans are coping with life and music through actively discussing their problems and finding reasonable solutions.
051 - ROAD HAPPY
What is Road Happy? Is it discovering you have a child? Is it learning that a stranger can finish your song for you? Is it getting two celebrity families together on set of a car commercial? Well, in this Nashville recap where the show is set in many non-Nashville locations, we really dig into road happiness, and how you, too, can achieve it.
050 - I FEEL SORRY FOR ME
Episode 50 is upon us, and the Bluebird is dressed to impress with an epic episode about tour busses, adoption agencies, surprise parties and an extended nostalgia for the Christian Bale Terminator Salvation tape. Classic Backstage At The Bluebird shenanigans.
049 - I CAN'T GET OVER YOU TO SAVE MY LIFE
After a break, Andrew and Johnny are back to talk Season 3 Episode 3 of Nashville, with Juliette’s Camera test, Luke and Deacon’s Hollywood rivalry, Maddie and Scarlett at a party and, of course, Teddy Conrad, Mayor of Nashville and Blockbuster Member. We create several Marvel-style Nashville What If? Episodes too!
048 - HOW FAR DOWN CAN I GO
Johnny is prepping for a holiday to Ireland, escaping the Bluebird and leaving it in the grasp of downtrodden Andrew, but before that comes to pass it’s time to watch Season 3 Episode 2 of Nashville. This week’s episode introduces us to Nadine, Drawdrobes and the mean bean team of Benton Media, whilst the Conrad/Clayborne/James/Hampton clan really spend time bonding and bonding and bonding.
047 - THAT'S ME WITHOUT YOU
Season 3 of Nashville is here, and in the aftermath of Will Lexington’s coming out, Deacon AND Luke Wheeler’s proposals to Rayna James, and Juliette telling Avery about her affair with Jeff Fordham, Johnny and Andrew tackle the drama, the music and the epic roadtrip that commences this run of the TV show.
046 - SEASON 2 PART 2 SOUNDTRACK
Ending the season in true BATB fashion, Johnny takes Andrew through the second season’s second soundtrack release. Join the two as they go track-by-track through the highs, lows and mids of Nashville’s rocking, harmonising music.
044 - ALL OR NOTHING WITH ME
Gunnar saw Juliett and Jeff Fordham the bean-counter from Harvard leave a screening room to appear in their own NC-17-rated movie, and Andrew is determined to list a whole bunch of other films they could have been in instead, whilst Johnny runs down an episode with Former First Lady Michelle Obama, the troops and Will Lexington’s new reality show.
043 - YOUR GOOD GIRL'S GONNA GO BAD
Oh dear, Scarlett’s had a bit of a breakdown, it’s almost like she knew what 2021 would be like and experienced it in 2014. Andrew and Johnny talk through her recovery, the further adventures of Gunnar Scott’s ascent in the financial world, and a few songs get a talking to for good measure.