Point of Pride
Many musicians I've come to know lament both the "need" for a day job and very often the job itself.
I don't share that sentiment.
And not just because my co-workers occasionally peak in on this blog. ,-) But because my job really doesn't suck.
In fact - it has several high points that makes whatever "sacrifice" my music takes seem irrelevant.
One of those high points for me is the release of our annual charity CD - "KFOG - Live From the Archives"
Every year - dozens of major & emerging artists come to KFOG to perform small private concerts in our little performance space. I engineer, record and mix those sessions.
Then once a year, our music programming people (Kelly and Benson) spend WEEKS putting together a collection of songs from these various sessions - convincing the artists/management and labels to give it to us FOR FREE so we can SELL the songs on CD for $16.99 and give all the money to local San Francisco Food banks.
Despite what you may have heard about the generosity of artists and their labels - not everyone says yes. But enough do to make this a highly anticipated project for our listeners. Great music and a great cause. It works.
We do a limited release. That's usually the only way the artists/label etc will agree. To date the project has raised over $3 million for local food banks.
Our 14th edition is coming out Nov 3.
It always sells out pretty fast. The radio station certainly does not need my blog post to sell copies.
But I thought I'd share with you in case you were interested in something I'm proud to be involved in musically - even though I didn't play a single note!
Details about the artists and songs on this years edition can be found HERE
Of the tracks I engineered my favs are Ben Harper's haunting "Morning Yearning" and Andrew Bird with innovative looping drummer DOSH doing "Imitosis".