Happy Mother's Day from all us MF-ers! Hope you get to share it with someone you love no matter what generation you are part of, either in person or by phone, Skype, text, Facebook, whatever.
So much to tell! Of course, the Music Fog guys were recently on the road with Paul Thorn and the band, and they had a blast together, shooting some video that will accompany the release of Paul's new CD Pimps and Preachers, coming out on June 22nd. What, you are not yet familiar with Paul? There are new people finding him every day. This is a descriptor from his bio: "At turns soulful, raw, melancholy, brazen, funky, circumspect, serene, brooding, and mutinous, the voice expresses the range of human emotions, from forlorn grimness to incandescent optimism." Eric Alterman of The Nation wrote a blog about Paul after seeing him for the first time this week in NYC. He writes, "I see from his website that Kris Kistofferson calls him 'the best kept secret in the music business.' Sounds overstated, but I don’t think I’m going to protest."
We can't wait to catch up with Paul again, and we will, as the Fog rolls again this coming weekend to the Cherokee Creek Music Festival in Texas, with The Paul Thorn Band headlining on Saturday, 5/15. Lots of other folks coming to play the two day event, too: Jimmy LaFave, Jude Johnstone, David Jacobs Strain, Griffin House, Robert Earl Keen, subdudes, Delbert McClinton, John Fullbright, Kevin Welch, Sam Baker, and Bob Schneider, though not in that order! Cool Cool Cool!
We filmed one of Paul's songs from the forthcoming CD in Memphis back in February, on the Music Fog bus. It is all things his Mom has said through the years, so we figured what better way to celebrate Mother's Day than by bringing you this video again. And I still can't watch it without tears of gratitude rolling down my cheek. Thanks, Mom. And thanks to Moms everywhere. "That's Life." Kisses.
- Jessie Scott
