Ok, so I have been in New York for the last three days for Americana Live In New York, which was curated by my fellow Americana Music Association board member Chip Taylor, with excellent facilitation by Jack Grace. We had a blast, and the music was awesome, bringing three different vibes in the three days. The first night was a guitar soaked, exhilarating evening of in the key of "red" at Rodeo Bar. Night two was colored cool "blue" with Cindy Cashdollar and Steve James taking the stage at Hill Country. Friday night, back at Hill Country, was "white" hot with Chip Taylor and Kendel Carson, John Platania, The Beauties, and Oh Susanna all coming and going from the stage, playing on each other's tunes. And it was old home week for me with Howard Leibowitz from Elmore Magazine, Emily Smart from Six Shooter Records, Jessica Styles from Music City Roots, and Meredith Ochs from Outlaw Country all in attendance. A red white and true blue inaugural Americana Music Association event in New York. I can't wait for next year!
Will Kimbrough wasn't in New York with us for this event, but we did see him at the granddaddy Americana convention, the Festival & Conference in September. Will has been in front of the Music Fog cameras before, solo and with Tommy Womack as Daddy. But this time we filmed him with a band; Tim Mark, Fred Eltringham, and Lisa Oliver-Gray! From Will's blog posted on October 20th:
"It’s been a busy Fall. Since the Americana Music Conference, I’ve been to Ireland with Rodney Crowell, I’ve played a brand new festival in Indiana, played on sessions for Tom Russell, Daniel Tashian and Tommy Keenum, played New York City, appeared on Dave Marsh’s Sirius Radio Show with Darlene Love, played in the round with Marshall Chapman and Matraca Berg, started working on a batch of new songs, and now I’m in California with Jimmy Buffett. It doesn't really slow down until Christmas. See you out West or somewhere..."
Wow! We bring you one from Americana Fest last month, and be forewarned...extra-super-special rocking ahead! Time to put your dancing shoes on! I think we first heard this one on Daddy's At the Women's Club CD. And I love that these songs live on in different incarnations. Jimmy Buffett often plays Daddy's "Nobody from Nowhere" in concert, as it's on his Buffett Hotel CD, and the title track of Will's latest project, Wings which was co-written with Buffett and is on the same CD. Looks like Will is makin' his bed real nice.
- Jessie Scott
