Midnight River Choir "Church of the Midnight Moon"

We still have several artists that we filmed during the Spring Music Fog Marathon that have yet to see light of day on our pages. Ya gotta know that it is so hard to sort all this out, and by no means are the last any lesser than the first. We just have to work through the process - curating 44 bands and countless songs. Quite frankly, we wouldn’t have booked the folks we did, if we didn’t want them ALL. As you know, we only scratch the surface, as we would love to do even more acts during our marathons, but we have to sleep at least a little bit. So, in answer to a post on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, it is time for some Midnight River Choir!

We first encountered MRC during MusicFest at Steamboat Springs in January of 2011. We loved having them. This year at MusicFest, I did video webcast of the sets from the "big tent." As this time the Fog production team didn’t make the trip. That left me to see music and hang out, and I got to catch up with a whole lot of folks that I know and love. Among them, the MRC guys. Since Music Fog was not in attendance in 2012 for MusicFest or for Folk Alliance, that made for a bit of a scramble in making sure we had all the musical ‘constituencies’ covered during our Spring event at Threadgill’s in March. On that roster was Midnight River Choir, and we were all super impressed with how much they have grown as a band since we saw them last. We are talking your fined tuned machine! Mitchell Pyeatt, Bobby Drivel III, Justin Nelson, and Eric Middleton played a bunch of tunes for us from their Welcome To Delirium? album. Why is there a question mark at the end of the album title? You can ask them when you see them.

-Jessie Scott

Cody Canada "Your Brother And You"

Man oh man, life has gotten FAST all of a sudden! What with my new job at KDRP on the radio from 2pm to 7pm Monday through Friday, and then working with the other usual stuff, Threadgill's, and Music Fog, and various tour stuff, artists, and writing...well ya know, there doesn't seem like there is time to eat even! Truth be told, I am loving all this, I have to say.

Making time for the family, now that is something that is always essential, but never easy for a touring musician. Cody Canada took time to write about that in a song for his sons Willy and Dierks, as he knows the drill all too well. By the way, Cody and The Departed are in the studio today recording their next album, and I am getting to sit in a watch for a bit. I am so excited! Music Fog had the honor of filming Cody in March during our Spring Marathon at Threadgill's WHQ. He played a brand new song for us, "Your Brother and You."

-Jessie Scott

Megan Reilly "Throw It Out"

Megan Reilly is a Memphis-native with a grounding in both the languages of Irish fatalism and Southern Gothic. She has just released her first album in six years. It's  called The Well, connoting both a dark and scary place, and one that is rich with depth and possibilities.

Megan began writing at age sixteen. At twenty-three, she moved to New York City, and was shepherded in her new hometown by Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth. He acted as her guide into the New York music scene and introduced her to guitarist Tim Foljahn. That duet was soon to lead to a full band - Steve Goulding on drums, Tony Maimone on bass, and Eric Morrison on piano. The group recorded Megan's first full-length Arc of Tessa, which was hailed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, No Depression and others. Her second album in 2006, Let Your Ghost Go garnered more acclaim. It has been a long time between albums, and though they are luscious to dig into, it's the video that grabbed us. Impossibly well-cast, and utterly impenetrable. It is one of the songs from The Well, vast and deep, "Throw It Out."

-Jessie Scott