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.

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.

056 - FIRST TO HAVE A SECOND CHANCE

It’s wedding time for Luke and Rayna in the mid-season finale of Nashville Season 3, and the tours are over for the time being. Deacon and Scarlett are off to walk Memphis, Gunnar’s kid is meeting his grandparents, Layla maybe overdoses on some pills, Will proves how straight he is by cringing through sex with a woman, and why not have some big surprises and cliffhangers all around the town?

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.

045 - ON THE OTHER HAND

It’s the Season 2 finale and the air-con is busted backstage, so Andrew and Johnny melt and sweat whilst touching on Livin’ With Lex ‘n’ Layla, Deacon’s recovery concert, Jeff Fordham’s bean-counting relationship, Rayna’s album release and, of course, Why Is Gunnar Scott? What will happen in the dramatic, climactic finale of this second run of the show?

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.

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!

040 - WE'VE GOT THINGS TO DO

It’s Rayna’s record label launch party, and Andrew and Johnny aren’t invited. But don’t worry, from Backstage they can handle all the situations unfolding, from Teddy’s angry dad vibes to Deacon’s new potential gig, and of course whatever’s happening to hurt precious Scarlett in this week’s episode. Nobody must put her in danger, for she is the light that guides humanity to the next evolutionary step. Also, Will Lexington without a ha

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.

038 - THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE DADDY ANYMORE

There’s a death in the family, and it’s shrouding the episode in HILARITY! Ahem, sadness… Yes. Scarlett’s starting an affair, the Bungalow Boys start a band, we go to LA to experience Randy Newman’s nightmare, and there’s a funeral to fix all the problems.

037 - TOO FAR GONE

We have Avery Barkley himself handling the audio recording as we capture the essence of the Bluebird for this week’s podcast. Deacon’s recording his own live album, the Bungalow Boys are dealing with Will Lexington’s closeted nature, Daddy is out of prison and Rayna has some stark revelations to deal with. It’s jam-packed drama all the way from Nashville.

034 - I'LL KEEP CLIMBING

Season 2 continues with the revelations and fallout from the midseason finale, who lives, who dies, who sings their story? Andrew remains hung up on if Gunnar Scott is, like, funny, or maybe has a big donger or something? Johnny runs through the highs, lows and mids of episode 11, and we discover new character Joe ‘Mama’ Mamasetto.

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?