Busy, busy, busy! This time of year in Texas the weather is still warm enough to do outdoor events. Saturday, I rode out to the town of Bee Cave to The Backyard for the First Annual LaGrange Fest, with ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jamey Johnson, and Corey Taylor of Slipknot. A portion of every ticket sold was donated to the Texas Wildfire Relief Fund as well as Lake Travis Fire Rescue and Bastrop Fire Department, as support to those who lost everything and the firefighters who are risking their lives to battle the worst wildfire season in Texas history. There is another benefit at The Backyard this Friday night, with Bob Schneider and friends. It is still relentlessly sunny here, not enough rain, but at least it is not in the triple digits. We are still praying for rain.
We're back from Americana Fest, with the first of 32 artists to share with you. Sunday Valley is one of a new crop of bands that we recorded. They were all different sonically from each other; but each brings an integral part of the roots music scene. Sunday Valley’s music has been called Cow Punk and Bluegrass Rock. Whatever you call it, it will propel you. Their first album is To the Wind and On to Heaven. It WILL rock your world. Here is a taste, with pictures even! It’s the Music Fog Fall Marathon recording of “I Wonder,” filmed at Marathon Recorders. And you may notice, with this first video from our Nashville sessions, that we've upgraded to high definition cameras. Now the Music Fog "look" is even more spectacular!
- Jessie Scott
