Today was a day loaded with questions. How is Music Fog going to get to the Black Tie & Boots media check in? How do we plan a moving through "Obama gridlock" in DC tomorrow? Are we hungry? Yes! So let’s not worry about getting around, and go to Five Guys! Yeah, that’s what we’ll do. When we get there (if we get there), we get there.

So we had the bacon cheeseburgers at Five Guys and made our way to the Gaylord Resort & Convention Center. It's an emerald city in the middle of oblivion, just south of DC on the Potomac River. The place just opened about six months ago, and it’s enormous...the utility bill is half a mil each month.

Anyway, this is going to be a huge party. Six ballrooms, seven stages, and "Texas Fair” shop-o-rama one floor below. We'll cover every living inch of this titanic inaugural ball. We really hope to relay the utter size of this event...if we make it back there tomorrow night.

-Jim McBean

The big Texas State Society ball is tomorrow. Jessie, Beans, and I went over to the Gaylord Convention Center today to scam some credentials and to walk through the site. Check out these pics, as well as a crummy video that's poorly lit (my bad). We'll bring our nice HD cameras tomorrow to record artist interviews and performances. Enjoy...

-Ben Krech
 

Jessie, Beans and I all made it home alive from Steamboat after wrapping up our first event: MusicFest. As always, it was an absolute blast with some of the best live music in the world. We have posted quite a few videos to our MusicFest Live blog, and we'll be adding more in the days to come.

Now what? Well...Music Fog is taking the crew to DC to provide coverage of The Texas State Society's "Black Tie & Boots Inaugural Ball." The event will be held January 19th at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington. This is going to be a great event, as it looks like they've nailed the artist line-up. From their website on December 8th:

"...Texas State Society today announced that Neal McCoy, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Rick Trevino and Zona Jones would also be playing at the quadrennial event.

The artists join a Texas star-studded lineup that includes: Tracy Byrd, Jack Ingram, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Kevin Fowler, Dale Watson, Asleep at the Wheel, Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, Emory Quinn, Charlie Robison and Sunny Sweeney."

We'll be recording as much content from this event as possible and posting it right here on the Music Fog blog.

-Ben Krech