The calendar has turned to the last page of the year. December is upon us, and the holiday season is about to kick into high gear. All I want for Christmas this year is to unpack all the boxes from my recent move, so I can actually entertain! Yahoo and yeehaw. I am only sorry that this year I don’t expect to be attending MusicFest at Steamboat Springs - missing it for the first time in a decade. Of course, the new gig comes first, and the rest of the Foggers are off globe-trotting. So they won’t be in attendance either. But then again, the travel takes us all kinds of places, with the ability to capture moments that are then preserved forever.
Got one of them today, from the 2011 MusicFest at Steamboat, the father and son collaboration of Kevin Welch and Dustin Welch. Of course Dustin has been a busy boy these days, he does workshops with Wounded Warriors to bring music creation to their lives. Check out Voicesofagratefulnation.org or soldiersongs.org for more information on this worthy project. Dustin is also readying his new album, Tijuana Bible, for late February release. He slid me a copy before I left Austin, and I can’t wait for you to hear it. Kevin is on tour in Canada now, and continues his songwriter workshops in Wimberley, TX. A beautiful thing indeed.
Speaking of beauty…here is the Music Fog recording of “Things I Cannot Change,” from Dustin’s forthcoming album!
-Jessie Scott