Americana Music

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The Wiyos "Promenade"

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We bring you The Wiyos from a couple of weeks ago at Cal Ripken Stadium, as they are still touring the ballparks with John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, and Bob Dylan, with just a few more dates to go. Of course, you should know they have a brand new album out called "Broken Land Bell," whereupon this song is cut two. Music Fog brings you a live version of Promenade, it's an easy, breezy, summertime-friendly feel good tune…heck even if it's hot where you are, this will cool you down!

-Jessie Scott

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Anne McCue "Hangman"

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My kitchen is presently being disassembled, to be rebuilt later today, kinda like the smell of a new car, but instead with all new wood and granite. I am getting ready for a move to Austin, Texas, and for the last two months I have been paring down, with POD in driveway.

I am happy to report that we are almost done, and the POD is only half full right now. Freedom is in the lightening of one's load. Took a break from the sorting and the packing and the donating to go up to Cyclops in Baltimore on 8/4 to see Anne McCue. You know, she is a friend of the Sin City Social Club folks, who we love dearly. They do shows in L.A. and Austin, and are like the eternal flame of roots music, they keep the drumbeat going surely, steadily, at all times. Not sure how they know Anne, but it might be the L.A. connect. Anne is Aussie, by way of the left coast (what is it about Australia that breeds such talented Americana women?) I had my kid meet me after work; he loves Anne's music from me playing it on the radio. When he shook hands with her, he said it would be OK with him if she threw the set list out and just did an extended version of "Hangman" for an hour and a half. He loves this song….so do I! As I recall, it was on the album Roll. We bring you a haunting, sparse, stripped down, lightening one's load version of it!

-Jessie Scott

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Bonnie Bishop "Almost Like Home"

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She is blond. She is beautiful. She is undeniably talented. Now, you could be jealous, but that would be a sheer impossibility! She is Bonnie Bishop, and she is sweet, and accessible. She is a recent transplant Texas to Nashville, and before you turn your nose up....she moved there to make the music SHE wants to, to make a difference, to swim upstream. She sings with a heartbreakingly beautiful bluesiness. She takes note of the journey through life, represented in her songs. She is not a tourist, but a traveler. We taped Bonnie a couple of weeks ago in Alexandria, VA, as she is readying a new CD "Virginia"coming out August 11th. Here's one that was originally released on Bonnie Bishop and Friends; Live at Magnolia Avenue from 2006, and which will be on the new album too! Almost Like Home...

-Jessie Scott