Mike Farris with John Fullbright "Mercy Now"

What is it they say, that moving is one of the most stressful activities on the earth. And I am still knee deep in the experience of my trek back to New York. Last night, my truck came and as the men were doing the heavy lifting, one thing and one thing only fell out of a box. It was the receipt for the wedding ceremony to my late husband Robert in Los Angeles in 1987. He just might have been welcoming me home!

Everybody could use a little mercy now…the immortal words of Mary Gauthier here, from a session we did with Mike Farris at the Spring Music Fog Marathon at Threadgill’s in March, oh yeah, with John Fullbright sitting in. Can you say lightning in a bottle? Here is “Mercy Now.”

-Jessie Scott