Monday morning.  Carmageddon fizzled like the Y2K scare.  Over the weekend on Facebook, my friend Peter Rodman posted a rewrite sung to the tune of “Carmelita,” with apologies to the late, great Warren Zevon.

"I hear demolition noises on the radio/and my cell phone glows, in the dark, This GPS says "Encinada"/but I haven't gone around the block! Carmageddon! (didn't happen)/I think it fizzled out...'cause everybody listened to the cable news/Now, nobody's goin' out..." 

I LOVE that.  It is actually amazing what we can do when we are paying attention.  And since our attention is focused out west, and we were holding on to this tune, here goes.  We taped Rodney Crowell, the multi-talented and eminently thoughtful and thought provoking singwriter (you heard me) at the Americana Fest in September of 2010.

By the way, this year’s Americana event has been pushed back a month, to October 12 through 15 in Nashville. They've started announcing who will be iplaying: The Civil Wars, Robert Plant & Band Of Joy, Foster & Lloyd, Gregg Allman, Justin Townes Earle, The Jayhawks and the North Mississippi All Stars, just to name a few.  Ticket prices are going up soon, so if you want to be there, here is the skinny for registration and wristbands.

But I digress....today Music Fog brings you a sweet, solo version of one of Rodney’s songs from the Sex & Gasoline album. “Moving Work Of Art.”  Catch him on The Chinaberry Sidewalks Tour named after his recently released memoir.

- Jessie Scott