Good to be home…for now

I’m sitting on my couch watching sportscenter on this beautiful wednesday afternoon – reflecting on my trip out west/east last week. San Fran was wonderful; Portland was brief and rainy, but successful and a lot of fun. I found a great little thai restaurant (i’m blanking on the name right now) and then snuck into some sort of awards banquet and watched a terrible beatles cover band while I ate free mini quesadillas. The next morning I left at 5am for Boston. I was supposed to perform at Bentley College, opening for a well known and incredible musician from Nashville (I’m probably not supposed to say who it was) however, the show was cancelled at the last moment. Perfect. The good news was I was still able to play a show at the school by myself in the student union for a bunch of kids and it went very well. Not exactly the 2,000 seat auditorium I was expecting, but hey, I got a free buffalo chicken panini out of it, so…

I hung out the rest of the weekend with my manager and his two brothers, as well as my girlfriend, her roommate, and her british boyfriend. We stayed in a friend of a friend’s home – complete with an original andy warhol painting in the hallway and a heated pool in the backyard. It was amazing to say the least…

I left on sunday evening to return home to Nashville for a few days and was pleasantly surprised to run into Food Network Star, Paula Deen, on my layover in Washington D.C. She was walking out of the bathroom when I approached her for a photo so she was probably completely freaked out and caught off guard when i threw my arm around her and smiled, ha.

We leave in the morning for a little Chicago trip – playing with Greg Laswell tomorrow night and then coming back sunday for Ten out of Tenn rehearsals; we leave in 2 weeks for the west coast Christmas tour!!

til next time.

ab