Travel

Preparing for The "AMFAC" In Nashville

Phones have been ringing every 15 minutes here in the Music Fog basement offices.  We are preparing for another excursion to the South to capture more video for our followers. This time we are traveling to Nashville for the AMFAC.  Everything is an acronym these days, so I won’t bore you with the actual name of the event.  Anyway, it sounds cooler to say “AMFACs” and just be done with it.  So There.

We have a bit larger crew for this venture.  And we have loftier goals as well.  We are bringing this guy – Chris Walsh – with an eye on a prize. Chris seems to think our story is viable enough for TV.  Really!  He likes the montra of Music Fog and has heard us say it over and over again: How hard can it be? So Chris will be along to capture everything else that happens while we are fumbling with artists and mic cables.Video Camera

I look at it this way. Either he works for the government and is out to get us, or Chris is one of those savants who fathoms something we don’t. So if you see us getting set to tape an artist somewhere in Nashville, and there is a camera on us, get in the shot. Make yourself a problem for Music Fog. Who knows, Chris might launch your career as well.

- Beans -


The Trip, Part 4


"Gone to Texas baby, all I need is the ride...." Terry Allen

Such a whirlwind of tangled emotions, snippets of life eyeballed through the
windshield, miles transporting you from one region of this great land to
another. Seeing the topography and foliage change. East Texas was flat and
huge. It humbles you just knowing there is something so vast. Actually, I
felt the same way in the Mississippi Delta. And why is it that you get
spotty phone coverage and GPS, but Facebook and Twitter find you just fine?

Got followed for miles by a Texas state trooper, who didn't stop me, but
sent the message loud and clear to slow down. And when the speed limit is
already 70, that's pretty easy to accommodate. Pulled into Austin by
evening, and it RAINED! It's been awhile since that happened, things are
bone dry here. Went directly to see old friends
Paul Thorn and the band at
The Shady Grove. A wonderful "welcome to Austin" evening. Yesterday, hung at
KNBT in New Braunfels with Mattson Rainer. He had two in-studio
performances: Shelley King with Marvin Dykhuis and Chip Dolan....amazing
soul and phenomenal harmonies. And then
Radney Foster stopped by, and I got
to sit in on the interview. He is celebrating the release of the
new album
Revival
. Played Gruene Hall last night with his red hot band The Confessions
and had a guest appearance from Raul Malo. Jeff Horny did a making of the
album DVD called "
Behind The Confessions" which, among other things,
contains man-on-the-street interviews of people's takes of the concept of revival. (We've included a clip below.)

-Jessie Scott