11/18-11/20: Busy Week!

Hey everyone,

It is ag here to recap on the last three days... starting off the week Monday morning I had a writing appointment scheduled with my producer Keith Follese and his wife Adrienne. We were blessed with yet another great song! I sure do love when great songs come out of sessions. It is a very rewarding feeling to me. The three of us as well as my piano player David Aide went to lunch after that. From there, I had to go get the oil changed in my truck. This time, I decided to go the synthetic route so that I’ll get a few more thousand miles out of my oil change. It just made more sense doing that even though I haven’t been driving my truck that often seeing I’ve been out of town so much. I just chilled the rest of the evening. Tuesday morning Shelley, Mark and myself left super early for Milwaukee. As soon as we got to Milwaukee, we immediately had to rush to a Cricket in-store event. I have to say, it was an amazing visit!! FM 106 must have done an incredible job promoting it because there were a lot of people there. They really made us feel welcome. Mark and I were happy to play some songs, meet people, and sign autographs. After the in-store, we made a visit into FM 106. Mark and I played an acoustic set to 20 special radio listeners. Our original plan following the radio visit was to go to dinner with Kerry from the station, but unfortunately he wasn’t able to make it due to family plans. So us three and Jack Purcell from Big Machine hit up a Sushi restaurant for dinner and the food was awesome!! Wednesday morning rolled around fast. We were again on our way driving to Chicago. The trip was going so well until we hit the worst Chicago traffic ever. It probably wouldn’t have been so bad and stressful if we wouldn’t have had to catch a flight, but we did and we were cutting it very close. Shelly dropped Mark and I off at the airport not knowing if we would even make it, but on top of that Shelley had to take the rental vehicle back and catch the same flight as us. Luckily, all three of us made it just in the nick of time. When we landed in Louisville, we met up with the band and bus at the hotel and then made our way from there to the venue. Robin, who works for Cricket-- bless her heart, was so nice to pick us up for the Cricket in-store event. We kind of played this in-store visit by the seat of our pants because on the way there we were notified that it had not been promoted by radio. Fortunately though, people still go by my website info and were waiting there to meet me, which was awesome! Afterwards, I went to dinner at Lilly's with Coyote from WAMZ. The food was awesome and we had a great time. The show afterwards at Jim Porters had a good turnout. After that, we hit the road to Memphis later that night. Today we are doing a show here in Memphis, the home of the King, Elvis Presley! Hope you guys are having a great day and I will talk to you soon. God Bless!

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