Americana Music

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Mac McAnally "Blame It On New Orleans"

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Mac McAnally hails from Mississippi by way of Muscle Shoals and is a singer songwriter extraordinaire, and Nashville treasure. Mac Album

While I am busy running around Texas, The Fog crew took off to the State Theater in Falls Church, VA this past Friday to do a green room location shoot. Mac is on tour playing guitar for Jimmy Buffett, but did this date as an "and friends" affair. Beans, Ben, and Aaron taped this with him before the show. It's "Blame It On New Orleans," which can also be found on his brand new album Down On The River.

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Elliot Randall & Gina Villalobos Music Fog left coast tour schedule

The tour kicks off in Sacramento on the 11th before heading back to Randall's home base of San Francisco for a show on September 12th at Bottom Of The Hill. It will then move south withRandall Band stops in Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, San Diego and Villalobos' home, Los Angeles on September 19th at the The Bootleg Theater, culminating with a show in Ukiah. We have the dates and ticket info.Gina 2

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Elliot Randall "Take The Fall" - Here's Jessie

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As we await a brand new release and the tour getting started, we are revisiting the album that turned us on to Elliot Randall at X Country, Take The Fall. San Franciscan Randall has a sweet voice, a keen eye, a deft hand with lyrics, and a great command of production dynamics. By the way, a couple of bonus tracks have been added since the original release! What a good album this is! We can hardly wait for the third one! My recommended tracks for you POD-ing pleasure:

 

Cut 1 "How To Get Old" -  great hook as country meets rock meets popElliot Randall album cover

Cut 3 "Second Time Around" - a modern classic

Cut 4 "Take The Fall" - Luscious, brooding

Cut 5 "Everything Reminds Me of You" -  countrified singer songwriter fare

Cut 6 "Don't Give Up On Me" - tuneful, sentimental, and driving

Cut 9: "We Don't Talk Like We Used To" - gentle, aching

Cut 10: "Leaving This Town" - pure fun- hands in the air

Cut 11 "Red Velvet Curtains" - new bonus track - cogent, relatable, rockin'