My name is Denise and I'm a Fogaholic. {"Hello, Denise."} I really didn't expect to get addicted. I thought I could just dabble in visiting the Music Fog website from time to time, but soon I was getting extra fixes by following the Fog on Facebook and Twitter. I was introduced to Jessie Scott at a time when I was most vulnerable, out of a job and looking for a way to get back on my feet. Jessie saw my potential as a cult member and asked me to join the team on the Celebrity Coaches bus for the Memphis Folk Alliance...and that is when I completely succumbed.
I come from a production background and have mingled with celebrities on all kinds of sets, but oh, the bus...the bus! We packed our schedule to try and accommodate as many artists as possible, so I imagined that we would be running a tight ship allowing little room for variation; artist load in, play a couple of tunes, load out - next. And in reality? Artists in their best attire bearing all kinds of gifts from home-brew to bottles of every imaginable alcohol. Laughter, joking, friendship, no pretension. The fog descended and all inclination for nervousness evaporated as I arrived in the moment of clarity.
Our very last performers at Folk Alliance were Eric Brace and Peter Cooper. It had been a long day and the Music Fog team was "well oiled." These two appeared and immediately knew how to slide into that intimate space. Yesterday, Jessie wrote about how we like to start the day with lovely girls to set the mood. Well, whatever town Music Fog is in, as long as Eric Brace and Peter Cooper are on the bill, they get to come up on the bus last. We absolutely love winding down our recording marathons with these guys. They provided the perfect two song coda. Here's the first selection, "Wait a Minute," a Herb Pedersen song which they recorded a version of last year with Mike Auldridge, as a Seldom Scene inspiration, but haven't released yet. Gnaw on this version for a while!
-Denise
[Update: We heard from Eric that they were mixing their studio version of this song on the same day this article was posted! So, you can expect it to be on the next Eric Brace and Peter Cooper record. Nice.]
