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This weekend's was a live outside broadcast from the Southern Fried Festival in Perth. It sounded like they had a tremendous weekend of music planned and I loved the fact that the only advice from the event organisers was to "take Monday off work."
Highlights of the show included Justin Currie of Del Amitri doing Hank Williams covers and Nanci Griffith performing a spine tingling accapella song about her Scottish roots.

She revealed the song was written on a bus between Glasgow and Aberdeen. Her band, according to Nanci, had drunk their way across the Atlantic. While they slept it off she put the time to good use by writing the Road To Aberdeen. Listen again if you can.
Nanci's tour manager was Phil Kaufman, the music biz legend who over the years has provided what he calls "executive nannny services" to Emmylou Harris, The Rolling Stones and Gram Parsons.
Kaufman was the man who stole Gram's corpse and burned it at the Joshua Tree in order to fulfill a he'd made with the singer. Funny to think that all these years later we'd be making small talk in a concert hall in Perth and that the sweet old man making sure Nanci got her tea on time was behind one of the most notorious incidents in the history of rock.