I'm on the plane heading back to Austin from Nashville. Highlights of my wild week? Met the mayor, Karl Dean. Met Don Was after an amazing set at Cannery Row with the newly shorn Todd Snider. Met the folks from The Utne Reader. Was on a panel with representatives from Pandora, Clear Channel, EchoNest, and Sound Exchange. Got to host the webcast of one of the most amazing awards shows ever, which was followed by Robert Plant's Band Of Joy. Saturday night was our first night out. We ran into Stonehoney at Robert's Western World, one of those legendary honky tonk's on lower Broad in Nashville, and then headed over to the Cannery/Mercy Lounge for an upstairs- downstairs double punch of shows: The Fairfield Four, Hans Rotenberry, Mike Farris, Susan Cowsill, Tony Joe White, and then Todd RIPPING IT UP!
We are tired, but happy. To help us get back our houses, and then get them in order, we're bringing you an Amelia Curran performance we shot in Memphis earlier this year. We'll return to our Nashville cavalcade of Americana Music Association Festival artists very soon. Amelia Curran is embarking on a European adventure later this month. So enjoy "Hands On A Grain Of Sand," recorded in Memphis on the Music Fog bus during Folk Alliance......while I sleep it off!
- Jessie Scott
