Nudie and the Turks "The Pain in You"

The Music Fog bus attracts a lot of unusual and mysterious visitors, among them Nudie and the Turks. Jessie saw them at last year's Folk Alliance, playing the Canadian Sweet Beaver Suite.  This year, she invited them to join us on the bus.
They appeared suddenly, drank some beer, sang some songs, and disappeared once again, leaving us with more questions than answers.

Who are these mysterious gentlemen? I'm pretty sure that his real name isn't Nudie, and that none of them are really Turkish. I know they are from Canada, a "neo honky-tonk" band from Prince Edward Island, to be specific. Their website offers some clues, but no firm answers.

What is this song about? It's so catchy, at first I just bopped along to it, and then tried to parse the words. "Oh, he loves her...no wait, he hates her...oops, no he loves her....oh, there he goes again, I guess it really is a country song." So enjoy it.  It's a heckuva song, this exclusive Music Fog version, and it's from those mysterious cowboys from the North, Nudie and the Turks.

- Chris

Pork Barrel BBQ - Buy This, You Won't Regret It

I would like to take this moment to welcome a new Fog sponsor to the cult. I hope you have noticed their link on the left side of the page. It's Pork Barrel BBQ. And what a story these guys have to tell.

Heath & Brett are the originators of this remarkable rub and BBQ sauce. They are also friends of Music Fog. We both got started on our adventures at about the same time. It was with Music Fog's help that Heath & Brett made it to the ABC network show Shark Tank. We shot the video that got ABC's attention. They did the rest, and mustered up the guts to appear in front of the Shark Tank panel with a pitch and a damn good product. If you saw the show you know it isn't for the weak at heart. Hell, one of the panelists told Heath he looked "like a pig!" My God, that wasn't easy to take!

So here we are, with Americana Music fans asking us for T-shirts and hats (we are working on that) and we give you BBQ rub & sauce. Why? Because it's a product that we believe in. And we don't have a lot of real estate to dedicate for sponsorship. So anything we put up on this web site had better be top notch and not muck up the vibe. Pork Barrel is.

You may recall in our past posts that the Music Fog crew likes to cook. We're all pretty damn good at it. And you may remember reading that we like to feed musicians who perform for the cameras any time we can. So now we have a secret weapon. So do you. And we urge you to click over to The Pork Barrel web site and buy some of their wares. It will help support Music Fog and...most of all, you won't be dissappointed.

Thanks Heath & Brett for coming on board with "The Fog." Now get back to smokin' more of that paprika!

-Beans

The Morakestra "Tell You Something"

Alright, you know we still have tons of video from the Folk Alliance in Memphis to put up on the Music Fog site...and then we will have tons of video to put up when we head to Threadgill's in March. And even though each road trip is a Herculean effort to cram as much as we can when we do a shoot, we still can't possibly be everywhere doing everything all the time! I feel like we have barely scratched the surface of the rich tapestry of GREAT music that is for the most part under the radar.

Do you know about these guys? Out of El Paso, Texas comes The Morakestra with their latest Witness To Connection. The music has some tasty country flavored guitars woven into it, but also has a dreaminess to the vocals that are very evocative of the 90's to my ear. And then there is the way cool video for the song "Tell You Something,” directed by Tao Ruspoli (director of Fix) and featuring Megalyn Echikunwoke (CSI Miami). Interesting images. So this Sunday, a palate cleanser, if you will...take a frosty spoonful and swirl it around!

-Jessie