ACL Music Festival is now a memory, and I didn’t go anywhere near it this year. Oh I heard that Stevie Wonder rocked and that Coldplay was cool, I saw some of Alison Krauss and Union Station on the stream on You Tube, and I am sure some stars were born this weekend. Now if I wasn’t doing anything else I would have been happy to be there, as I have attended for the last five or so years, but weekends are my busy time now, and you can’t be everywhere. Well, I take that back, maybe you can be everywhere, but it has to be sequential, just one day and one date at a time.
I have lots of friends who are trying to do just that, and we lovingly refer to them as road dogs. Virginia’s Sons of Bill are busy making every day count. They have been touring a bunch by themselves, and after this summer's run with Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, SOB were asked to continue with RCPM on their dates through the Northeast and the Great Lakes this month. Sons Of Bill are anxiously awaiting the release of their next album, which they had hoped to deliver this fall. But we hear now that it will be coming out after Christmas, which is only three months away! Yowsa! We had SOB in front of the Music Fog cameras at MusicFest at Steamboat 2011. Wait a minute, that means 2012 is just over three months away, and that is a wonderful thing, since we will be returning to Music Fest. Happy, Happy; Joy, Joy! The song we bring you today is as yet unreleased, but is forthcoming as part of the new album from the brothers Wilson. “Siren Song,” new music from Sons of Bill.
- Jessie Scott