All in a day's work. What am I talking about? Everything it takes for an artist to even be afforded the opportunity to share their music. Before the cameras rolled for this Music Fog session, Madison Violet had played late into the evening before at Mountain Stage in West Virginia, woke up at 4am to catch a flight to DC, shuttled to The Mansion on O Street to drop off some gear (minus an airline-lost piece of luggage with equipment), whisked over to Bob Edward's studio for a performance and interview, then taken back to The Mansion for our session! They filmed three songs with us, then went straight into soundcheck for that evening's show. Afterwards, they finally got the first meal of the day, a quick break, and then performed into the evening---a full set in front of an audience. A van was waiting for them at 7am the next day to jump a flight to New York to do it all over again.
That's just a mini-snapshot of one day. This repeats daily for as long as an artist is out on the road. So, if you like an artist's music, by all means tell your friends and co-workers...it helps more than you may think. This video doesn't show how hard these women worked just to make this session happen, but you certainly can see the passion that is the result. A passion fueled by your love of the music.
A twisted take on over the river and through the woods to Grandfathers house we go, for a wacky family reunion. Currier and Ives it's not. James McMurtry from his latest Live In Europe, with the classic, "Choctaw Bingo." Happy T Day Foggers!
The Music Fog crew is preparing for The MusicFest in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Sounds simple enough…but you would marvel at the various alternate plans we have considered to get there.
It is akin to those old WWII movies that feature the “War Room” where troop movements are monitored on a large glass map in the middle of the room. There are uniformed men and women swarming around the map with long wooden sticks, pushing toy soldiers, tanks, airplanes and supplies around on the map. All of them are smoking. Some are yelling on telephones to god knows who. That is what we look like right now.
Plan A: Get on a plane and fly to Denver. Then take a Go Alpine taxi up the mountain to Steamboat. Total cost (with equipment) One bazillion dollars.
