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Eric Brace & Peter Cooper "Sheboygan"

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EB&PC-cover The crew was a little punch drunk and there may have been some Jack Daniel's green label floating around the bus...all day. Eric was riffing on his guitar and stealing lines from me for songs. I didn't mind; in fact he asked if he could use them. I mentioned that he could have anything he wanted, except my then current favorite fictional song title, "200 Miles to Tupelo." We sipped some more Jack, and laughed. Yes, we were sittin' on the bus drunk again. It almost felt like we were parked in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Cheers!

-Aaron

Peter Cooper - Mission Door - Sheboygan

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Sarah Borges "Me And Your Ghost"

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Borges & Band Two of our favorite babes (now HOW can I say that when the Americana Fest yielded such a high percentage on the distaff side…and WHERE did the word DISTAFF come from anyway?
 
As a noun, a distaff (also called a rock[1]) is a tool used in spinning. It is designed to hold the unspun fibers, keeping them untangled and thus easing the spinning process. It is most commonly used to hold flax, and sometimes wool, but can be used for any type of fiber. Fiber is wrapped around the distaff, and tied in place with a piece of ribbon or string. The word comes from dis in Low German, meaning a bunch of flax, connected with staff. As an adjective the term distaff is used to describe the female side of a  family." from the WIKI!
 
And Beans, FYI-that's the word of the day. But I digress. Eilen Jewell and her band and Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles are cruising down the east coast this week! Kick Ass! http://www.sarahborges.com/calendar.html
 

Now Eilen's "Sea Of Tears" so far is in the lead for the most watched Music Fog video with an astounding 27,400 views (James McMurtry is next in the Music Fog YouTube sweepstakes with nearly 25,000 for our video of Choctaw Bingo) But I digress again…we just recently taped Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles in Nashville, and we are sure that she will run up some big numbers as the months slide by. She and the boys are road doggin' it, old school-like…hey, it is what ya gotta do these days to get to the audience. Not to mention, then you have to deliver live…and they are magnetic in concert. Here's proof in a low key stripped down setting…imagine what they are like full tilt!

-Jessie

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles - The Stars Are Out - Me and Your Ghost

Scott Miller "Claire Marie"

Scott Miller When the Music Fog crew went to Arlington, VA for the Scott Miller taping it was a warm sunny night. The streets were alive with the usual brown sandal wearing crowd. There was this guy Frank who owned a pizza place and insisted on us eating everything he had set out for sampling. This was a weird night in Arlington.

We walked two blocks to a drug store to pick up batteries, and met a 20 something woman who wanted this pair of bedazzled flip flops that were selling for $5.99. She didn't have the money, so we offered-up the green to make her day and watch her gush. The gushing never came. But the flip flops looked really good on her feet. She told us all about the Scott Miller concert that was happening down the street. We already knew, but never let on.

When the show started, Scott was his usual entertaining self. A story, then a song...another story and another song. But we noticed a common thread to most of what he had to say. Amtrak. Yep, Scott got himself a sponsor and it was Amtrak. He was traveling around the country by train and performing on the train as well as stops he had booked in advance. 

Damn! How did he pull that one off? We just hope that Scott doesn't become the old guy on the block with the giant train set in the basement when he grows up. We know all of those kind of guys just ain't right.

-Beans

Scott Miller & The Commonwealth - For Crying Out Loud - Claire Maire