The Music Fog crew is busy doing the due diligence, getting ready for another trip, but this time on a private shoot for an artist. Sometimes we move like a military cadre, quietly making our preparations out of the line of sight. There is a clandestine feel to it. We are scattered in different cities, and that is not an obstacle to us as a company, what with communication being what it is these days. But when we get mobilized, it has a kind of George Peppard "A Team" vibe, though I hear it with different music. Of course, the "A Team" is back as a movie this year. I get a little worried that our culture spends so much time recycling rather than inventing. I guess there are always periods like this before moving on, but it seems we've been in ennui land for a decade. TV shows coming back to life as movies, sequels, prequels, and now I see that Cheap Trick is playing Vegas doing a reprise of Sgt. Peppers! Yikes.

Photo Credit: Martin Diver Photography

We don't subscribe to the notion that everything good has already been invented, and that there is nothing new to explore. The building blocks remain the same, but even when people pick up threads from before, they can create something new. And so it is with the melting pot of Americana. Throw all that roots music into the gumbo pot, and form something that isn't a pure bit, but instead a Heinz 57 of music. Morgan O'kane is true to the roots, but his music has a rock and roll energy to it. We hold this truth to be self evident, that a society without artists is a less rich one. You have to have dreamers, schemers, to move things forward. Morgan O'kane, Ferd Moyse and Zeke Healy have been on a campaign of their own, to conquer Europe these last three weeks. They are playing a free show this Thursday (9/23) at King's Cross Social Club in London, and we are all invited to their Hootenanny. This ain't your Grandpa's string band music!

- Jessie Scott