So I'm sure if you're reading this you who I am and that I tour manage (or mangle, depending on your role on the tour). This will be a great distraction from the humdrum life of the road, where nothing really goes on anyway!
I'm actually sitting at home in Nashville today on a rainy Thursday. Jimmy Buffet said he moved from Nashville to Key West because he got so tired of it always raining. I wrote a song about that line from his autobiography before I'd ever even been to Nashville. It has a pretty obvious title...yep, "Raining in Nashville." Pretty clever, huh?
I leave in about 15 hours to go on the road with Chris Young, an artist on RCA. I'm filling in for my good buddy Troy, Chris' regular TM, whom I may not be calling "my good buddy Troy" after tomorrow night. Troy booked me for the gig, a 914 miles bus ride to Miami for a two song set and then a 914 mile jaunt back to Nashville, before telling me one small transportation detail...we would be doing all this on an Eagle. Seeing as how Eagle quit making buses in 1993, this bus is AT LEAST 15 years old. I do hope I'm pleasantly surprised, however I have a feeling I won't be. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. And yes, I do realize I'm completely shallow and a bus snob. Chris Newsom, my production manager with ML, will be on the gig with me as well. Bus misery loves company.
On a political side note, I've yet to endorse a candidate in the '08 presidential race yet. I know all the pundits and commentators are eagerly awaiting my ringing endorsement, but I have yet to decide. I like Edwards but he reminds me of a Saturday Night Live character with the accent and the waxing and waning eyebrows. Obama has charisma but seems like he lacks confidence sometimes. Hillary is too far of stretch. I'm still trying to come to grips that after arguing for months in 2000 with my good friend and former band mate Kinley Wolfe (of The Cult fame) that I might actually vote Democrat. I like Huckabee's demeanor and he plays a mean 4 string axe, but I think putting a minister in office would jeopardize too many political decisions that need to stay non=religious. I'd like Ron Paul a lot more if he wasn't such a whack job. I watched Howard Stern on Letterman tonight...he said there's way too many people in the race and he was waiting until there were two or three left to make a decision. Maybe he's on to somehting.
India introduced a $2500 fully functional automoble today that may be introduced in America in the next few years. I doubt the automakers let it happen, but we'll see. It looks like the little mini cars you see on Key West or in Carribean islands, except these have doors, A/C, etc and get 60-70 mph. I might have to buy one just to have something to laugh at myself in.
If you don't read the NY Times or Wall Street Journal you should.
I've got to get some sleep. I started this blog at 1 pm and it's 2:18 am. I've got bad ADD.
Peace.
2 comments:
Glad to see you're getting some use out of your English degree. Speaking of said accomplishment, did you ever bribe anyone at school to actually mail you a diploma? Nice blog though, I'll have Whitney link it up to our family blog. That should bump your Arbitron rating up in the Married with Children living in College Station demographic.
Woodrow out.
Welcome to the blogger world, Jordan! I'll check this often for some juicy Nashville scoop! Tell Brit hey for us.
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