Ten out of Tenn Christmas Tour.
I just arrived back home to my parent’s house for Christmas after a whirlwind December. The last time I wrote on here, it was Thanksgiving and I was about to leave NYC for Baton Rouge to kick off the Ten out of Tenn Christmas Tour (with Erin McCarley, Trent Dabbs, Matthew Perryman Jones, Tyler James, Butterfly Boucher, Katie Herzig, Andy Davis, K.S. Rhoads, and Jeremy Lister). About 3 weeks and 7,000 miles later, I’m sitting in a lounge chair – watching the ‘George Lopez Show’ on TBS and wondering what just happened to me. This tour was magical and easily one of the best times in my life thus far. I will always look back on it with fond memories and with a warm place in my heart. After looking back at all my footage, I realized that maybe I should have blogged here and there along the way, because to try to recap and tell it all now would be a disaster in text form. Instead, I think I will just post my top 3 favorite moments of tour and then a bunch of random tour photos after that…Ok, here we go:
3. SEATTLE, WA – Erin McCarley and I were having a nice little afternoon in Seattle when we decided to have a quick lunch at a local noodle shop. As I was returning from the men’s room, I caught eyes with the guy behind me and was shocked to see it was my childhood icon, Dave Matthews (Or ‘David’ as he introduced himself to me a few minutes later) of the Dave Matthews Band. Erin eventually wandered over to chat with him about a mutual acquaintance they shared and so I tagged along for the story. Besides my legs and stomach being jello for those 5 minutes, it was pretty great meeting Mr. Matthews. He was extremely nice and recommended a few delicious menu items, which I enjoyed soon afterward. Despite the rainy weather, it was a really great day. oh, and the show that night ended up selling out!
2. LOS ANGELES, CA – Our 4th date of the tour was a stop at the world famous ‘Troubadour’ in L.A. Besides the weather and mexican food, I don’t typically care for southern California that much, but this night was certainly the exception. Playing that sold out show was an amazing experience and afterward we all when out on the town with some of the Hotel Cafe fellas. East met West in a very good way that night.
1. EL PASO, TX – We didn’t even play a show here, haha – we just had the day off but it ended up being one of my favorite days of the tour. We all went out for a movie and then dinner/margaritas afterward, before coming back to our hotel room and finding ways to amuse ourselves via youtube and Tyler’s webcam. Somehow, K.S. got the idea to put on one of Erin’s bikini tops and film himself singing her single ‘Love, save the empty’, karaoke style into the little laptop camera while we all watched with great joy. This was hands down my favorite moment of the tour – or at least when I laughed so hard, i fell off the bed.
Here are some other random, but great, memories…
