Paducah, Kentucky

We’re driving near Paducah, Kentucky right now… cruising down Hwy 24 westbound, headed for Kansas City. The weather is gorgeous, a bit crisp and cool, but clear. We stayed at a hotel just outside of Nashville, Tennessee last night and spent the evening walking Broadway Street in downtown Nashville. There was live music in every single bar that we passed, though it was pretty much all country music (I know, it’s Nashville – but I figured there might be a bit more variety). We grabbed dinner and a few photos, then headed for the hotel for the night. Wow, we just passed the “National Quilting Museum.” If only we had time to stop…

Man, what an incredible tour this has been. We’ve all been talking in the van about how there’s this feeling of being “on a little snowball, just starting to roll down a hill”… we played every single night over the last 11 nights, covering the midwest, northeast, mid-Atlantic seaboard, and the south. And every single night we finished our set and then had to get our Sharpies out to sign autographs for people coming up with CD’s, guitar picks, posters, etc. to be signed. We were all surprised by it at the beginning of the tour, but it’s become a normal part of the night for us now. It’s a pretty cool feeling to know that we’re nobody right now – just four guys making noise on a stage – and yet people want us to sign their stuff… because they see the potential in what we’re doing. In their minds, at some point, sometime soon, those autographs will be worth some bragging rights (“I saw those guys in a tiny room with 10 other people”). The staff and audience at shows have been SO incredibly friendly this whole week. We can’t wait to hit the road again in April with a new album to present along with This Room Becomes A Crowd.

It’s been really tough to stay on top of the Road Journal, because I dropped my laptop and it’s basically worthless. We’ve been sharing Anton’s laptop between the four of us, and then we accidentally left our camera bag up in Vermont, so I don’t have the chargers and USB cables to get photos over to the computer – what a technology nightmare. I’m going to publish all of the journal entries that I’ve done here in a minute. You’ll see them below.