We are just two weeks out from Americana Fest in Nashville. Music Fog will be setting up shop at Marathon Recorders on October 12, 13 and 14th, and we are going to live stream the mini sets. We have booked some very cool sessions; Guy Clark, The Black Lillies, Ian McLagan, The Bottle Rockets, Sammy Llanos, and The Blind Boys of Alabama, with more to be announced soon. Taking a kind of cliff’s notes version of what Music Fog has attained over our almost 3 years of existence: We generate over 20,000 impressions a day, not counting our 15,000 Twitter followers. We have over 5.5 million views of our 700 videos on YouTube. We are averaging around 100,000 views of those videos each and every week. We add 10 to 15 subscribers everyday on YouTube. We generate between 5,000 and 10,000 impressions on everything we post on Facebook within 24 hours. And maybe the most amazing thing about this campaign we have been waging to bring real music to you, is that it has been viral. We haven’t done any advertising. It has all been word of mouth - that’s yours, and the artists we film who share Music Fog’s videos with their fans, and so on. Thank you for being part of our tribe.
The one thing I know, is that this is music that deserves to be heard whether it is played on the radio or not. I wish Americana Radio could be in every city in this country, all over the world, really. Today’s era reminds me of the early progressive rock period in the 60s. Before the music was widely played on the radio, it was shared by friends, by tips from folks at the record store, and ultimately it found its own level and acceptance. I wish the same for these artists. We filmed Mary Gauthier at last year’s Americana Fest. She is an American original, an exquisite poet and performer with an eye for heartbreaking detail. The song “I Drink,” is a modern classic, having originally appeared on Mary’s landmark album Mercy Now. If you are not familiar with her work, that is a very good place to start. She performed it for our cameras with Tania Elizabeth.
-Jessie Scott
