Getting ready for SXSW© in Austin, Texas and I can’t wait. Spring starts to get sprung after this annual rite of passage. The weather is already warming up in ATX, and though the rest of the Music Fog team won’t be there this year, I have been involved in putting the line up together for Sun Radio’s live broadcasts from Sonesta and El Mercado. They are open to the public, no badges or wristbands are needed, but since we are listener supported radio, a donation at the door is suggested. And if you are not in Austin, you can listen live on the app for iPhone and Android, and online at sunradio.com. To view many of the artists joining us click here for the full schedule.

Being in the thick of the music is what I love best. Back at the end of January, I scheduled fifteen artists to come play for the Music Fog cameras at 3rd & Lindsley Backstage. I had run into Paul Burch at Christmas, and was so excited to hear about his new project, an ‘imagined autobiography’ of Jimmie Rodgers, "The Singing Brakeman." Released last week, the album Meridian Rising follows the arc of Jimmie’s life, from his birth in Meridian, Mississippi to his death at the Hotel Taft in New York City, in 1933, at the age of 35. His music foretold the merging of traditions which was to become Rock and Roll. Paul enlisted GRAMMY© Award winner Fats Kaplin for this Music Fog session, doing “Meridian” for our cameras. Catch Paul in Austin if you are down SXSW© way!

- Jessie Scott