Luck and love and work. Days and nights. Stress time and down time. We will reveal our artist lineup tomorrow for this week’s Music Fog Fall Marathon from Nashville, during the Americana Music Festival. You will be able to enjoy the music live here on the Fog, as we will video stream the three day event, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. You might have noticed a new addition to our website, in the upper right corner, it's the Fog Feed Fund. A long time ago someone wondered if we were a cult. Actually the line was, "are you guys a cult or a pyramid scheme?" Sadly, we are neither, but we are looking for your help to defray the cost of traveling and producing this event, since sponsorship was ever elusive this time around. So your contributions are welcome, large or small. And whether you donate or not, we will be bringing you some amazing stuff to watch, and that’s a promise.
Last year at Americana, we filmed our recording sessions behind closed doors, as we will do again this year, and presented single song videos to you one day at a time; our usual setup. But this past March, we decided to stream our sets from Threadgill’s for the Spring Music Fog Marathon, and discovered that we love the immediacy of bringing it to you right then and there. This time around, it should be very interesting for you to "sit in" on our studio recordings.
One of the artists we featured in March was Brigitte DeMeyer. Her new CD, Rose Of Jericho was released at the end of August, and on Thursday night, there was a gala event to celebrate it at rhinestone studded couturier, Manuel in Nashville. For the uninitiated, he is the artistic heir to Nudie, and has elevated the form to pop culture ubiquity. Manuel was the one who created those famous logos for The Stones and The Dead.
Brigitte is fairly new to Nashville, a San Francisco Bay area transplant. It is the first time she has recorded since moving, and it is the first time she co-produced, though Rose Of Jericho is her fifth release. There is the loveliest New Orleans lilt to the song we bring you today, “Hey Big Poppa.” Herewith, is the Music Fog version of an easy, breezy, gambling tune, the original of which can be found on the new album.
- Jessie Scott
