We are just a month out from SXSW descending on Austin, and today is last day of our Kickstarter campaign for this year's Music Fog Marathon.  Kickstarter is an all or nothing proposition.  If we don't hit our total goal, we don't get partial funding (and donors don't get charged).  We're close, but not there yet, so please consider donating a dollar or two to support the broadcast.

SXSW is, in essence, spring break for the tragically hip. Every color hair, every imaginable personal style from the macabre to the flamboyant, visiting this hamlet en masse in March. It’s like the wildflowers of the Texas countryside blooming, only way louder.  Actually, Austin’s population is pretty weird anyway. On a recent trip to the HEB Supermarket at midnight, I saw blue hair (not elderly, but cerulean) red hair (not with freckles, primary color red) and I saw pink hair (not cotton candy but flaming strawberry.) There was a guy in a sugar skull do-rag. There were ghoulish types and bikers and bad-asses of every ilk.

Photo by Senor McGuireAustin is a city that believes in letting its freak flag fly, and that is a wonderful thing.  I wonder how much of these looks are wish fulfillment from childhood. When I was about 7, my favorite article was a turquoise leather bomber jacket. It held magical powers, and I wonder whether that didn’t imprint me in some way as to what my future taste would be. Today’s tune is a throwback to childhood from Guy Clark, who our Nashville Music Fog Marathon at Marathon Recorders during Americana Fest. “The Cape” is a song that you can find on Guy’s most recent album, Songs and Stories.  Patty Griffin does the honors on the Guy Tribute album just out, This One’s For Him. We bring you the Music Fog version today. Oh yeah, and always trust your cape!

- Jessie Scott