Seth Walker "Are You Open?"

The waiting is still the hardest part. We live these days with drama and stress, and the unknowable length of this marathon before we can stem the tide and start returning to normal. It is still one day at a time. And a day and another day, they string together like pearls. I actually had to think about whether we had summer yet, and realized that yes, we are almost at the end of 2020, so we must have had. At the beginning of the year, I had the good fortune to go on a Caribbean cruise, Delbert McClinton’s Sandy Beaches. We were in port in Old San Juan, when I ran into Seth Walker coming around the corner, we chatted for a few minutes, catching up on what was new. He was performing on the ship, along with many other folks I consider friends.

Photo Credit: Chad CrawfordSeth has used the quarantine time to put pen to paper, and just announced that he will be releasing his first book after the first of the year, Your Van Is On Fire: The Miscellaneous Meanderings of a Musician. It’ll be part memoir, part meditation, and part art gallery. There is a sucessfully funded Kickstarter campaign to aid and abet its release. Seth does it all so effortlessly. Well, that is how it seems.

Seth’s most recent album is Are You Open? Today we bring you the Music Fog edition of the title track, filmed in a private performance in Nashville last year. Easy peasy!

- Jessie Scott