OCTOBER 2008
Trip Start
Oct 17, 2008
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Trip End
Nov 02, 2008
Asheville,
North Carolina,
United States
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The following night, in Flat Rock NC, Myself, Aaron Price and Zack Page all played the Flat Rock Wine Shoppe as part of a benefit for the Flat Rock Playhouse. There was a great crowd there and it was a nice time.
The next weekend I went to Charlotte to take part in one of my best and oldest friends from childhoods "bachellorette party". Let me start off by saying that I truly love my friends and I'll always be there for them, but I think this made the 3rd weddings I'd been in this year. And I gotta just say, if I have to go to another wedding, or bachellorette party in the next year, it will be to soon. It was a great weekend though none the less. Each night held a very entertaining surprise and shananagan for sure. Upon my return I went to work to learn the song I was assigned to sing for my friends wedding. And get this...guess what song I was assigned to sing..."I'm Gonna Love You Forever" by Randy Travis. If you've never heard this song, you should def. go to youtube to check it out. It was hard to act serious when I sang the lyrics, "Baby I don't care, I'm not in love with your hair, and if it all fell out, I'd still love you anyway"... However, I managed to put together a sweet little acoustic version that everyone seemed to enjoy, so mission accomplished.
The same weekend I was involved in this wedding, I was beginning my little mini tour with The Duhks. So it was a hectic weekend, but it all worked out luckily. I opened for The Duhks in Montreat NC at Gaither Chapel with my band. It was a bit stressful because they insisted on putting my drummer behind these glass sheilds for "sound purposes", but to be honest...the girl in charge of the sound seemed to be a bit flustered and out of touch with how these things actually went down. She was in her 20's and very very frustrated with the two guy who where trying to help her out for some reason... Anyway, so my drummer had trouble hearing anything because of these walls, and it messed with the mojo for the band as a whole too because it seperated us from our backbone basically! Ah well...that's just my behind the scenes point of view of course. I had an entire front row of rockers dancing and singing along with me, which made me feel reeeeally really great! Thanks girls! Then I had Sarah Dugas and Christian Dugas of the Duhks join me on stage with my band for Chains of Love, and it was sooooo much fun. I love those two so much and all of their sick talent. They're wonderful people.
The next night we were in Charlotte NC at The Neighborhood Theatre. I opened for The Hackensaw Boys and The Duhks solo acoustic!! I always get so nervous when I'm solo! I suddenly feel boring up there. However, it was far from boring I'm sure. Everyone was very sweet, and I even got an encore which was wonderful. You can actully watch a couple of the videos from that show on youtube I believe! There's one of me solo, and one of myself and the duhks doing Chains of Love acoustic as well. Check those out if you're bored.
Monday Night we went to Atlanta Ga and played Smith's Olde Bar. I had a great set that night, and Tania Elizabeth jumped on stage with me for the last 3 or 4 songs. It was amazing. I love playing with that gal, she's a musical geniuos! The Duhks later called myself and Odessa Jorgeson up to sing Travelin Shoes. It was hot and we sounded great. I also got to catch up with my good friends who live down there, Josh Lamkin and Eliot Bronson of The Brilliant Inventions and of course my dear friend Dave McDonald as well. It was a lot of fun hanging out with them. It reminded me of how much I miss those fools.
Tuesday we rolled down to Athens Ga to play The Melting Pot. I did a short acoustic set and it sounded the best of all three nights. The more I play solo, the more comfortable I get...it always takes me a min. though.
After opening those four shows with The Duhks I headed down to Mag Fest with them. We had a great time together and I truly cherished my time with them. I didn't want to leave!
After Mag Fest, I continued south to play a couple other shows in Florida that were great, and I even made a couple new connections, so all in all it was a rather productive trip.
I'm back home now and working on booking once again. It's such a frustrating process to do it all yourself, but I just keep trying to remind myself that the payoff will make it all worth while. My next show is going to be in Johnson City TN at the Acoustic Coffee. I'm looking forward to playing there seeing that I've never played Johnson City before! We'll see how that goes. After that I have a few other things that should be nice, but the day after christmas will be the date to save. I'm playing Jack of the Wood Dec. 26th. Tania Elizabeth will be playing with me as well, so I hope everyone who lives in the area will be able to make it out for that.
I hope everyone makes the best of the rest of 2008. till next time...xox
