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Somebody's Darling "Another Two Step"

San Francisco is such a tangle of influences, both sacred and profane. The air is damp and chilly, the beauty of the landscape unmistakable, the buildings are majestic. With the ever present thought of earthquakes, it seems to drive home the concept of living every day - because you just never know, coloring existence with an unspoken immediacy. I am hanging in S.F. with my friend Carren Sheldon, who is a sister really, as we think alike and even look alike. We worked together on the radio in Orlando at WMMO in the 90's. We were driving across the Golden Gate Bridge, when we discovered neither of us had ever walked it. We pulled the car off on the Marin side and parked. Sweatshirts pulled close, hoods up. We took off alongside a bunch of hearty souls who had embarked from Daly City, CA on a 3-Day for the Cure walk, a Susan B. Komen fundraiser. There were monitoring cops from San Jose with their regular uniforms adorned with the addition of pink sequins, pink tutus, and pink head wraps. They rode their bicycles on the bridge checking that their minions were safe. Somewhere halfway across, I felt very blessed to be watching the weather consume the bridge, seeing the churning water below, feeling the nip as the wind whipped. Alive. Man, but that weather really takes it out of you. And doing 20 miles a day to raise money, we Music Foggers commend you 3-Day walkers for the marathon pace, towards a cause that has touched so many families.

Photo Credit: Will Pearson

I want to take you back a couple of weeks now to the Americana Music Festival in Nashville, where we still haven't brought you everything we filmed. One of the bands we recorded on the last day was Dallas' Somebody's Darling. They create a well oiled groove, and feature a honey-voiced yet tough presence in lead singer Amber Farris. The new album was produced in Nashville by Georgia Satellite Dan Baird, and that's a real good fit for their sound and intensity, cause they roll...but in a country meets rock kind of way. And they were nominated for two 2010 Dallas Observer Music Awards, “Best Female Vocalist” and “Best Country Act.” We predict big things! This song's energy would have been a helpful accompaniment to our Golden Gate Bridge trek, "Another Two Step."

- Jessie Scott

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