Video Geeks, YouTube, and You!

A lot of video geeks out there wonder why we use YouTube as our method of online video distribution. They say things like, "That's TERRIBLE! They crush your video down to nothing! Use Vimeo instead! Idiots..." Seriously, we've heard this.

Our answer is simple: go to where the people are. While Vimeo is of higher quality, well, a vast majority of it's small audience are video geeks sharing their videos with other video geeks. At the end of the day, we want to put these great artists in front of the largest audience possible, and right now, that's YouTube. 

Anyway, YouTube is constantly tweaking their digital "stuff" and it looks like they'll be switching to completely new profile pages soon. Another thing we've discovered is custom video players, and we thought a test would be in order. 

The player below is a playlist of our "Completely Random Videos." Enjoy!

-Ben Krech

New Single From Eric Brace: "Tranquility Base"

Okay, I know we're a little late with this one...my bad. With all of the shooting, editing, phone calls, and emails associated with Music Fog, I totally spaced on an email from Jessie Scott pointing me to the latest single from Eric Brace. Let the beatings begin...

-Ben Krech

EBphoto "Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module and onto the surface of the moon.  As the first man to walk across the lunar surface, one would expect Armstrong to have a lot of profound thoughts about it all.  Curiously, he's never talked about how he felt, satisfied to discuss the event only in engineering terms.  

 

I thought that was pretty strange, and one night under a bright moon, all the questions I had for Armstrong arranged themselves into a song.  With the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing coming up, I headed into Eric Fritsch's East Nashville studio and recorded Tranquility Base, with Mike Webb (keyboards), Fred Eltringham (drums), Eric Fritsch (electric guitar, bass, organ), and Charlie Rauh (electric guitar).


Tranquility Base is streaming on the Red Beet Records website and is available for download on iTunes. The video is the creation of another fine East Nashvillian, Stacie Huckaba, who managed to get some very cool footage from NASA.  You're welcome to forward it, embed it, share it with your mom."


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Catherine MacLellan "Something Gold"

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It's time to revisit the shoot we did with Catherine MacLellan. 

Of course, you know we didn't put it all up when we shot her a few months back. It is so nice to have goodies "In The Can."  Got a couple of links for you: her tour dates, and her blog. 


Don't know about you, but I still love plaid! And the sweet, soulful delivery of Something Gold, another song from her most recent CD Water in the Ground.


-Jessie Scott