Old Settler’s Music Festival is almost upon us, April 19--22, and this week, Music Fog is featuring some of the fine folks on the line up. It takes place just 11 miles south of Austin at the Salt Lick Pavilion on the outskirts of Austin. Yes, it is the same Salt Lick that has been featured on so many of those cable food and travel shows. By the way, Salt Lick has a hint of Hawaiian influence with pineapple in the barbeque sauce. That last link is a rabbit hole of its own, if you are of a mind to go chasing down the secret recipe. Old Settlers Music Fest has camping at Camp Ben McCulloch, so if you have some vacation time coming, or just get a wild hair, or is that wild hare (sorry, another rabbit hole for you!), c’mon down to Texas for a while.

There are several artists that we have had the pleasure of filming on this year’s OSMF roster: Ha Ha Tonka, James McMurtry, New Country Rehab, Sarah Jarosz, The Bottle Rockets, Bob Schneider, Eilen Jewell, and Sam Baker. Sounds like a party, right? Austin natives, The Wheeler Brothers, will be there too. They are one of the crop of new buzz bands showing up on must-see and must-listen-to lists. In fact, they just made their national TV debut with Carson Daly on March 22nd. Brothers Nolan, Tyler and Patrick Wheeler met Danny Matthews at LSU. Once back in Austin, the group added guitarist A.J. Molyneaux, and the combustion began. Portraits, their debut album, came out in June, and they played us a song from it when they stopped by Threadgill’s for the Spring Music Fog Marathon last month. It was the day the Austin Music Awards were announced, and the Wheeler Brothers picked up Best New Band, Best Acoustic Guitar – Nolan Wheeler, Best Bass – Tyler Wheeler, Best Misc. Instrument - A.J. Molyneaux, and Best Roots Rock. Here is “Sleep When I’m Dead.”

- Jessie Scott