MORE TIME ON THE ROAD

We began our week on the road with Osh Kosh, WI. We played with Dierks and Jack. It was a great day of getting to hang with all those guys. We really need to do some kind of tour together. Jack and ML hung for a long time and I always love when they do...I think she learns thing about the business by osmosis. I played a couple games of Xbox with Dierks. Those guys are really into Call of Duty and I had to defend our guys honor. After Osh Kosh we headed to Cadott. It was really nasty weather thru the course of the day, it rained like cats and dogs about an hour before we were to go on. We played with Brooks and Dunn and a couple others. It ended up being a really good show after the rain cleared. At the end of the night, we hung on the bus with Kellie Pickler, Blake (who had the night off) and his TM Kevin, and a couple others. Fun times. I crashed early as the whole crew was heading to Ronnie Dunn's bus for a big dance party. I hear it was a blast. I also hear that some unnamed crew members pulled the trigger and re-donated their dinner to the earth.

After Cadott, I rode back to Osh Kosh with ML while the band stayed behind to make friends with Chesney and camp. Blake was playing Osh Kosh. It rained almost the whole day. I spent some quality time with his band guys playing Tiger Woods on the bus. I wish I would have stayed in Osh Kosh and sent a sub to Milwaukee. We played SummerFest and it was an asswhip. They put us on a landlocked rinky dink stage that held about 2500 cram packed. Well, we had 3500 so imagine how cram packed. And, when it came load out time, they wouldn't let our truck back onto the grounds until after the park closed. It almost made us late to our next load in. Those folks need to learn how to do big shows on that stage if they're going to keep doing them. What a beatdown that whole day was. They did a show just before us called "Chick Singer Night" which was interesting. It was all girls singing songs to a live band and the audience voted on their favorite.

As much of a beatdown as Milwaukee was, Muskegon MI made up for it. We played with our buddy Eddie Perez (who is doing the Julianne Hough gig). I set up a vibe room early in the day and made mandatory hang time. I stocked it with about $100 worth of alcohol and told Eddie to call his crew and we'd rendezvous at the bar around 2. Kidding, had a throw a little to Biggie. Anyway, we all began to hang and our guys got along wonderfully with their guys and ML and Julianne really hit it off. Oh yea, the show was freaking amazing. We drew 12,000 and it was deafening. What a phenomenal place to play. I can't wait to get a couple pics to put up, but it was unbelievable. The stage had a 12 foot barricade and we built a thrust into the crowd that really made a huge difference. If people would listen to me more often on things this world might be a better place. Or I'd just have more bouts of self righteousness.

Go buy the new Reckless Kelly record, it just came out last week. Peace.