Bands are getting their gear ripped off, and it has been happening with too much regularity these days. What it is about vans and trailers that screams expensive stuff to thieves? And how incredible that it is musicians getting taken advantage of, who can’t afford to lose their gear because they can’t afford to replace what was stolen. At least, now we have a network of like-minded folks on Twitter and Facebook that can get the word out. Not that solves anything per se. You have to wonder what kind of desperation would yield this behavior, but I sure can attest the desperation it causes among musicians. It’s their livelihood, after all, and the bond between musician and axe is the stuff of legend.

The Midnight River Choir are suffering the loss of their equipment. A week ago Sunday they held an “Up Shit Creek Without A Paddle,” to raise money to replace it all. If you can, please donate here. The song we bring you today is from our Spring Music Fog Marathon, in March at Threadgill’s WHQ. It is one of the songs you’ll find on MRC’s Welcome To Delirium? CD. Here are Mitchell Pyeatt on drums, Bobby Drivel III on bass, Justin Nelson on lead guitar, and Eric Middleton on lead vocals with the Music Fog recording of “Soul Food.” 

- Jessie Scott