I love the profusion of music festivals, they seem to be everywhere these days. It is quite impossible to even know about them, let alone attend them all. But what's really cool about having them dot the landscape, is that you shouldn't have to travel too far from home to get to one, and be able to spend a great day, or weekend, immersed in the sonic fog (music fog?) of it all. And what with August upon us, the summer of weird weather is almost over! There is the thought of autumn, crisp air a-coming (well we can dream, can't we?) - with all due apologies to the citizens of San Francisco, and other places where the mercury didn't seem to get out of the 50's this summer!

So comes the Illinois River Jam. Music, camping, float trip, friends, family, food and music! It's happening September 24th and 25th at Peyton's Place in Tahlequah, Oklahoma...should be a fun time. Travis Linville will be there, along with Randy Crouch, Adam Carroll, Owen Temple and lots more artists. There are actually a bunch more dates for Travis, as he cruises the Red Dirt trail up from Texas through Oklahoma, which gives you a chance to see his expansive palette of sounds, if you are along the way. Travis, post Burtschi Brothers in 2006, has been taking it on the road himself. He is Norman, OK based, and he is always busy. Recently, Travis has been performing as part of a gritty electric duo featuring electric dobro/guitar with drummer Chris Foreman, though. When he's not out singing songs, Travis is producing other musicians' records at his DirtyBird Recording studio.

We met up with Travis this past February, in the early morn, on the Music Fog bus in Memphis during Folk Alliance 2010. The tune "Waterwheel" comes from his CD Hometown Blues, and a solo acoustic version was later featured on See You Around, much like we bring you here!

- Jessie Scott