Ange Boxall "A Heart That Loves Like Mine"

Music Fog hit a new milestone this week, 30 million views on our YouTube channel. Yowsa, you guys! Thanks for watching, thanks for sharing, and thanks to all the artists, managers, and music biz operatives that stepped up along the way to make it happen. The amazing thing about the Music Fog movement is it has been totally viral. This is virtually friends telling friends, and so on.

What an exciting time it was a week and a half ago, as I got to broadcast live from SXSW© on Sunradio.com. If you used to listen to XCountry, on XM Satellite Radio, and have been looking for something to fill that audio void since it went dark in 2009, I have been building the Sun Radio music library since 2010. Stream it live anywhere in the world, listen on the broadcast frequencies in and around Austin, and of course you can download the app for your smart phone for free from your App Store. All the sets we broadcast will be archived on Sunradio.com and let me tell you there were too many magic moments to even begin to pick just a couple of favorites. Everyone BROUGHT it! Thanks to Maudie's Triangle and El Mercado on S. 1st in ATX for making us so welcome. This weeklong immersion actually just might be my favorite way to experience music, sequential days packed with brilliant sets from incredible artists. All told, there were nearly 50 artists broadcast last week, talk about a music fog!

We did a Music Fog Marathon in Nashville in 2011, which was jam packed with musical goodness. Ange Boxall was on the lineup that year, all the way from Tasmania. She is back there now, playing gigs and a blues festival a couple of weekends ago, and generally having a blast. It is so great to be able to take a gander on FaceBook to catch up. Ange just posted a photo recently with another Music Fog alum, Steve Poltz. From the Music Fog Marathon 2011 in Nashville, during AmericanaFest, here is "A Heart That Loves Like Mine."

- Jessie Scott

Lost Bayou Ramblers "Les Filles A Nonc Elaire"

Happy Mardi Gras! I wish I could be in New Orleans where, party aside, it is a day of religious celebration with friends and family coming together to share food and make memories. It is ironic that the day is now more known for its excesses. In typical 'next best thing to being there' fashion, on Sunday my club Midtown Live presented CJ Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana band. With Creole food and Zydeco dancing, a fine time was had by all. We braved the cold, with the temperature dropping Sunday night in NY to 1 frigid degree, so these were hardy souls to come out! Midtown Live is the site of another Let's Zydeco concert on February 27th, when Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys come to town.

A few weeks back during our Music Fog Mini Marathon, we had the pleasure of filming The Lost Bayou Ramblers. They bring the strings and the soul, and the feel of a sultry day amid still water with Spanish Moss hanging in the trees. The band was formed in 1999, a family affair, by brothers Andre and Louis Michot. They learned roots Cajun music performing with their uncles and father as part of Les Frères Michot which was founded in the 80's. They were voted as Best Cajun Band in 2012, 2013, and 2014 by Offbeat Magazine's "The Best of the Beat" awards.

On this Mardi Gras Day, as we dream of warmth and sunshine, the Lost Bayou Ramblers provide the perfect accompaniment. This was our loudest session of the day, so it's best you play it loud, too, and dance!

- Jessie Scott

Shawn Camp "Building The Fire"

There was a wonderful piece on 60 Minutes a couple of Sunday's back, about a singer/songwriter named Rodriguez. He made two albums decades ago that didn't hit, and then fell into obscurity. Somehow his music found traction in South Africa.

He didn't know that in South Africa, he had cult status. His music was ubiquitous, he was the voice of a generation...but Rodriguez didn't know anything about it. The legend sprang up that he had committed suicide, but, Steve Segerman who owns a record store in Cape Town, decided to go hunting for him in Dearborn, MI. Rodriguez has now toured South Africa, and the US as well. His music is now on the sales charts in the US, too. At the age of 70 he is the subject of a documentary that is being hailed as an Oscar contender, Searching For Sugar Man. The 60 Minutes segment reminds us all of the value of poets and musicians, and is especially poignant in light of so many talented folks who labor in obscurity. I don't know what it will take to turn the trend around so that music is important to more people again. If we lose the opportunity for it to be a significant part of our communication, our society will be the poorer for its loss.

We have a video from Shawn Camp to bring you today, but before we do, here is a question. Are you hip to the new band he is in, The World Famous Headliners? They are Big Al Anderson, Michael Rhodes, Pat McLaughlin and Greg Morrow....yeah buddy, it don't get no better than that! Their songwriting, sideman and solo projects are the stuff of musical who's who. The self-titled album just came out a few months ago. Worthy stuff indeed, it simply makes me crazy that more folks don't know about this music, and these artists. It is where the good stuff lives. Shawn Camp came to play forthe Music Fog cameras two years ago at Americana Fest 2010. This year at the Americana Honors & Awards, as co-producer with Tamara Saviano, they picked up Album Of The Year for the Guy Clark Tribute, This One's For Him. Today's song is not from any of the above mentioned projects, instead it is an as yet unreleased song, "Building The Fire."

-Jessie Scott