Hey Jerry how are you man? I have been very busy and haven't heard from you in a few days so I thought I'd drop in at the table and say hi. I had a few gigs this week. Thursday night was the best gig I have had in a long time. I backed up a guy named Craig Russell from Gilbertsville Kentucky. Craig is making a MAJOR splash in the music scene around here and has been for about a year now. He is spreading like wildfire people are using his songs as ringtones for their phones and kids are making videos to his songs for school projects etc... He is a SUPER nice guy and he and I hit it off very good right from the start. He is a big fan of one of the bands I had several years ago. So when we met it was kinda funny. I contacted him after hearing a song of his that I just loved. When I did he was like wait a minute aren't you one of the guys that was in that band man I have 4 CDs and wear them out.So it was really funny I didn't realize he knew who I was but right off the bat we had a mutual respect. The crowd was insane they were yelling and dancing like you wouldn't believe. They kept running up onstage asking all kinds of questions like "What kind of guitar are you playing?" "Where are ya'll playing next?" "Are you cutting out after the gig or can you stay and hang out with us?" It was cool of them to be that interested but it made it hard to play the songs. I played acoustic lead, Craig played acoustic and was singing, my brother Joey played mandolin, washboard, I think harmonica on a song or two, spoons, and bozouki. Craigs Dad Steve played harmonica most of the night. The place was packed out and they were WILD. They were eating it up security had to get involved at one point because some guy tried to climb on a table. He knocked it over and then he and some girl started dancing where the table was. Security came and escorted the guy and a friend of his out. It was great we got 2 standing ovations and 3 encores but we only played 2 encores. They were so loud that by the time we ended the 2nd encore Craig's voice was shot. We told them to come to the next gig to hear more lol. That was our 2nd time playing together and we had a blast. I took the weekend off and just hung out with my kids and with Jamie. Besides that everything has been going good around here. The weather has been beautiful so I have been eating it up. Fall is my favorite time of year. Summer is always so hot and humid it is such a gift to have Fall come colling everything off and making all the trees so beautiful. Well I am going to jump off of here but I just wanted to touch base with you man. I have been jamming to Clarence Ashley. I had never heard him before you turned me on to him. I love his music BIG TIME. I appreciate it man. Well I will talk to you later,
cya
JT