If you are coming to Austin this week for SXSW, be prepared. Cell phone calls are already dropping midstream from the amount of people on line and traffic is already a snarled mess. It took me 45 minutes to go cross town today. (If you leave in a big city that is known for gridlock and traffic jams, please forgive me. Austin is a hamlet, and it usually takes 15 minutes or less from the west side to the east!) The restaurants are hopping, the taxis are busy, the hotels are booked solid, and the people watching is simply sensational. There are road closures to be aware of over the next week, but being at Threadgill’s means you can skirt much of that, and you can PARK!

I am so excited to be pondering the great avalanche of music that will be coming upon us for the Music Fog Marathon starting on Wednesday. We will be bringing you 44 artists, and streaming it all live here. One of them, by another name this time, is Jon Dee Graham. We will welcome him on Friday with his brother from another mother, Freedy Johnston, along with their other ’sibling’ Lil’ Sis Hobart, Susan Cowsill. Wow, is THAT gonna be cool. Jon Dee Graham is solo here, from our Spring Music Fog Marathon last year at Threadgill’s. It is a rare and beautiful love song, from a man who will tell you how happy he is today. So good to hear that, and so good to see Jon Dee at his “Best.”

- Jessie Scott