Merry Christmas everyone. I just wanted to make sure that I wished you all a Happy Holiday Season. You fans have been so great to me and I'm so thankful for your non stop support. I wish each and everyone of you all the happiness this Christmas and New Years can bring and all the best for 2010. I look forward to seeing y'all eventually out on the road again. God Bless and be safe.
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
11/26/09: Happy Thanksgiving!!
I just wanted to wish y'all a Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope y'all take the time to really cherish your families and friends, and of course just maybe fill up your belly's with some good ol home cooked meals.. Thank you all for your continued support and dedication, I will always appreciate it. Talk to you soon and God Bless!
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
11/16/09: Show Last Night!
Hey y'all, just wanted to fill you in as to how the show went last night. It was in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia at the Rodeo Lounge. The event was to raise money for Leukemia patients and their families, and it turned out to be an awesome evening. Derek Cain, whom Barry and I got to know before the show had told us about his story and what he had gone through being a Leukemia survivor himself and he truly became an inspiration to me hearing how positive he was about life. Derek had met us at the hotel early yesterday morning and we all went over to FX 101.9 where I played "What It Takes" live on the air. After leaving the radio station, Derek invited us over to his place for breakfast, and his wife June cooked up a very tasty breakfast for us all. Being that I didn't get much sleep the night prior, I went back to the hotel after that and slept for about 2 1/2 hours before having to go to soundcheck at 3pm. We did soundcheck and Carla the club owner was nice enough to feed the band and I a great meal. (Does it seem like all we do is eat? LOL) The show last night started at 10:30 pm and I did a 90 minute set. I tell you, the audience last night was incredible. I've done a lot of shows in my time to small crowds and big crowds and there are certain ones that stand out in my mind for being the loudest crowds and this I would definitely have to put near the top of the list for loud. There were times while I was singing, when I couldn't even hear myself over the audience. I swear they knew every word to pretty much every song. I was certainly blown away by that, and it helped to make a great evening for us. In closing I just wanted to say it was a real honor to help out the cause last night and thank you to Derek, Carla, Russ and Nikki from FX 101.9 for the support, I'll never forget it. Now Barry and I are sitting here in the Halifax airport and we have some time to kill before our flight. Our final destination is Cleveland, I'm going to sing at a church there tomorrow morning and then again later that night and we'll follow that up by the showing my new movie WWJD. I'm curious to see how it goes, I hope the people dig the movie, It has a very positive message that can touch people in several different ways. Anyhow, I'm gonna sign off now, but I hope y'all have a great day, and God Bless!
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
11/4/09: What I Did For Halloween
Hi guys!
Just stopping in to say hi. I spent the weekend in Indiana with family- it’s a great place to be at Halloween because the leaves are turning colors now and falling down like snow. It’s beautiful driving down the country roads. Didn't get to experience the whole trick or treating thing this year, but made up for it by visiting Bonds Chapel gravesite. You're probably thinking, “Wow, what's exciting about that?” But here’s the deal- anyone that lives in that area knows about some of the haunting stories that come out of that graveyard, and it was an experience to do it on Halloween. I don't have any real freaky stories to share with y'all, but it was still kinda chilling to go there. Have any of you seen the new Step Father movie yet? I went and saw that in Indiana as well and it was pretty good. I recommend it to anyone that's up for a bit of thriller. I don't want to forget to mention I had a very enjoyable visit to NDHS High School. It wasn't planned at all- just a last-minute decision. I went and entertained pretty much half the school, I'd say. The minute I started singing “Crazy Days,” people started piling in. When I got to “What It Takes,” there were quite a few students gathered around singing and mouthing along. That kinda spur of the moment stuff is neat to do and from what I heard, it made the students’ day, which, in turn, made my day. Now I'm back in Nashville and getting to enjoy the sunny weather for a bit. The days are getting shorter and shorter now and colder the later it gets, but I'm used to the cold for the most part…or am I? Hahah. I've been here for awhile now and I believe my blood has thinned out a lot, so I don't think I'm as used to the cold as I used to be. lol Anyways, I hope y'all have a great rest of the evening and I'll talk to you later. God Bless!
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Just stopping in to say hi. I spent the weekend in Indiana with family- it’s a great place to be at Halloween because the leaves are turning colors now and falling down like snow. It’s beautiful driving down the country roads. Didn't get to experience the whole trick or treating thing this year, but made up for it by visiting Bonds Chapel gravesite. You're probably thinking, “Wow, what's exciting about that?” But here’s the deal- anyone that lives in that area knows about some of the haunting stories that come out of that graveyard, and it was an experience to do it on Halloween. I don't have any real freaky stories to share with y'all, but it was still kinda chilling to go there. Have any of you seen the new Step Father movie yet? I went and saw that in Indiana as well and it was pretty good. I recommend it to anyone that's up for a bit of thriller. I don't want to forget to mention I had a very enjoyable visit to NDHS High School. It wasn't planned at all- just a last-minute decision. I went and entertained pretty much half the school, I'd say. The minute I started singing “Crazy Days,” people started piling in. When I got to “What It Takes,” there were quite a few students gathered around singing and mouthing along. That kinda spur of the moment stuff is neat to do and from what I heard, it made the students’ day, which, in turn, made my day. Now I'm back in Nashville and getting to enjoy the sunny weather for a bit. The days are getting shorter and shorter now and colder the later it gets, but I'm used to the cold for the most part…or am I? Hahah. I've been here for awhile now and I believe my blood has thinned out a lot, so I don't think I'm as used to the cold as I used to be. lol Anyways, I hope y'all have a great rest of the evening and I'll talk to you later. God Bless!
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
10/20/09: The ICM Awards & Update On WWJD
Just wanted to let you all know that the ICM awards went very well here in TN. It was nice having the support of my family and friends in the audience and it was great being able to meet and hang out with all the talented musicians and artist that were on the show. The day prior to doing the award show my manager and I were in LA and had a couple good visits with some churches in the area, where we premiered my movie, WWJD. We were very happy with the turnouts and if that was any indication as to how the rest of our Church visits will go, we're really going to have a great time. Kevan who is the Director of the movie was our tour guide in LA taking us everywhere from the original Guitar Center, all over Beverly Hills, and to the City Walk. From a distance we were able to see the cemetery where they laid Michael Jackson to rest. So all in all it was a great visit to LA. Other than that I'm continually working on music and keeping myself busy. I hope y'all have a great day, and week and God Bless!
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Friday, October 9, 2009
10/8/09: Drayton Valley
Hello, everyone!
It is now 1:30 AM here in Edmonton, and I'm getting ready for bed. We had a great turn-out in Drayton Valley for the show on Saturday night. It was called the R.E.A.C.H Foundation, and it was to raise money to build an orphanage in Kenya, Africa. This orphanage will eventually shelter 50 kids who desperately need the help. My heart certainly goes out to them, and that I was able to help out in a small way was a true blessing. I'm having some good quality time with my family again, and my road manager Barry and his wife Vivian are up here as well. Barry took Vivian to West Edmonton Mall yesterday and practically spent the whole day there, which isn't hard to do. It's Vivian's first time here so it wouldn't have been right for her to leave Edmonton without seeing the mall. That mall is so large that between the two levels, you can easily spend a whole day there. The two of them will now be spending the next few days in Jasper (the Rocky Mountains) and it is absolutely beautiful there. I highly advise anyone that hasn't had a chance to take in the Rockies to do so- you won't be disappointed. I can assure you of that. I love my dog Todd cause right now he is stretched out on my bed next to me passed out- lol. Todd is now 17 years old- hard to believe- he's been such a good dog all these years. Well, according to some weather reports I'm hearing, my home town of Edmonton will be seeing some good ole snow fall before long. I remember growing up and being able to build snow forts and snow angels in the backyard and all that- it was good times. It's been unpredictable the last few years whether or not we'll get much snow. We don't seem to get as much now-a-days as we used to. A few years ago we didn't have any snow at Christmas time. Christmas here in Edmonton just feels a little odd without snow; it just doesn't seem complete without it. Not to mention I love snowmobiling. Well, I'm starting to see the inside of my eyelids so I better call it a night now. I hope y'all have a great day tomorrow or shall I say today. God Bless y'all.
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It is now 1:30 AM here in Edmonton, and I'm getting ready for bed. We had a great turn-out in Drayton Valley for the show on Saturday night. It was called the R.E.A.C.H Foundation, and it was to raise money to build an orphanage in Kenya, Africa. This orphanage will eventually shelter 50 kids who desperately need the help. My heart certainly goes out to them, and that I was able to help out in a small way was a true blessing. I'm having some good quality time with my family again, and my road manager Barry and his wife Vivian are up here as well. Barry took Vivian to West Edmonton Mall yesterday and practically spent the whole day there, which isn't hard to do. It's Vivian's first time here so it wouldn't have been right for her to leave Edmonton without seeing the mall. That mall is so large that between the two levels, you can easily spend a whole day there. The two of them will now be spending the next few days in Jasper (the Rocky Mountains) and it is absolutely beautiful there. I highly advise anyone that hasn't had a chance to take in the Rockies to do so- you won't be disappointed. I can assure you of that. I love my dog Todd cause right now he is stretched out on my bed next to me passed out- lol. Todd is now 17 years old- hard to believe- he's been such a good dog all these years. Well, according to some weather reports I'm hearing, my home town of Edmonton will be seeing some good ole snow fall before long. I remember growing up and being able to build snow forts and snow angels in the backyard and all that- it was good times. It's been unpredictable the last few years whether or not we'll get much snow. We don't seem to get as much now-a-days as we used to. A few years ago we didn't have any snow at Christmas time. Christmas here in Edmonton just feels a little odd without snow; it just doesn't seem complete without it. Not to mention I love snowmobiling. Well, I'm starting to see the inside of my eyelids so I better call it a night now. I hope y'all have a great day tomorrow or shall I say today. God Bless y'all.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
9/27/09: Adam Update
Hey everyone, I hope y'all are having a great weekend. I've just been here at home practicing my guitar and I'm gonna hook up with some friends later this afternoon. I noticed I hadn't mentioned anything about how the Leonard Cohen Tribute show went last week, so I thought I would fill you in. The show was a success, thanks to the great bunch of folks who worked together to make everything run so smoothly. Adam Cohen flew in from LA to be a part of the show, so even though we didn’t have Leonard Cohen present, his son was there, so that was cool. It was such an honor to work with all the talented artists, organizers and, of course, my band that backed everybody up during the show. On another note, I was actually gonna go canoeing today. It would have been my first time doing that, but there have been flash flood warnings all day here in Nashville so I'm not gonna take the chance- although a boat would probably be one of the safer places to be with all this rain. Ha-ha. Other than that, I'm excited about going home again on October 1st. I have a few shows up that way that I'm looking forward to doing. Take care everyone and God Bless!
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Friday, September 18, 2009
9/15/09: Hello from Canada!
I made it home safely this past Sunday and have been spending some good quality time with my family. The Leonard Cohen show is on Friday the 18th. The first official rehearsal will begin tonight at 7:00 pm. I've been practicing a ton for this show as I've mentioned in previous journals. Learning my Leonard Cohen selection will be cool because my band is the house band for that entire show. I haven't seen the band in a little while so I'm looking forward gigging!
One of the things I love about coming come is we have a fire pit in the backyard. Sunday night the whole family hung out after I arrived from the airport. We sat around the fire, talked, roasted marshmallows and grilled on the BBQ. Nothing like good company and good food! That's the simple sort of stuff I love.
I spent the day cruising around town yesterday in my parents’ truck. I think I'm going do a little bit more of that again today before tonight's rehearsal.
I hope y'all have a great day and thank you for the continual support. God Bless!
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One of the things I love about coming come is we have a fire pit in the backyard. Sunday night the whole family hung out after I arrived from the airport. We sat around the fire, talked, roasted marshmallows and grilled on the BBQ. Nothing like good company and good food! That's the simple sort of stuff I love.
I spent the day cruising around town yesterday in my parents’ truck. I think I'm going do a little bit more of that again today before tonight's rehearsal.
I hope y'all have a great day and thank you for the continual support. God Bless!
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Friday, September 11, 2009
9/10/09: Still In Nashville
Hello everyone!
I’m just here at home in Nashville gearing up to watch the Mothman Prophecies for the second time. HA! I love movies like that! The weather has been nice in Nashville lately. I went out and washed my truck the other day. It was a perfect day for it.
I wrote yesterday with Nicole Witt and Jeff Ross. We came up with a pretty cool song called "Look Inside". The writing has been going well. I'm getting a good variety of songs, which is never a bad thing.
On another note, I don't know if they sell this product up in Canada, but in Nashville they have this type of Cereal (which I'm loving) called Oat n’ Wheat Bran Swirls. I discovered it at Trader Joe's and I've been hooked ever since.
I'm heading back to Canada on the 12th for that Leonard Cohen show. Also, I missed both my mom and nephew's birthday, so we'll probably celebrate again while I'm home. My mom said just having me home will be a gift in itself, but maybe I can convince her that we should all go out to dinner!
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well. I will be sure to update you on my Canada trip.
Have a goodnight and God Bless!
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I’m just here at home in Nashville gearing up to watch the Mothman Prophecies for the second time. HA! I love movies like that! The weather has been nice in Nashville lately. I went out and washed my truck the other day. It was a perfect day for it.
I wrote yesterday with Nicole Witt and Jeff Ross. We came up with a pretty cool song called "Look Inside". The writing has been going well. I'm getting a good variety of songs, which is never a bad thing.
On another note, I don't know if they sell this product up in Canada, but in Nashville they have this type of Cereal (which I'm loving) called Oat n’ Wheat Bran Swirls. I discovered it at Trader Joe's and I've been hooked ever since.
I'm heading back to Canada on the 12th for that Leonard Cohen show. Also, I missed both my mom and nephew's birthday, so we'll probably celebrate again while I'm home. My mom said just having me home will be a gift in itself, but maybe I can convince her that we should all go out to dinner!
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well. I will be sure to update you on my Canada trip.
Have a goodnight and God Bless!
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
8/26/09: Practicing Leonard Cohen Songs
Hey everyone, how's it going? I'm here at my loft, and I’ve been practicing a bunch on the Leonard Cohen songs. I'm feeling more and more confident the more and more I practice them. I'm sure some of you are reading this and wondering what I'm talking about- well, let me just fill you in a little. Leonard Cohen is known for the countless number of songs he's written over the years for himself and for other well-known artists. There's going to be a Leonard Cohen tribute show in my hometown of Edmonton, AB, on August 18th, which I've been asked to be a part of. It's a great opportunity as well as an honor to have been asked. I'm learning 5 of his songs right now, so that's kept me pretty occupied today. Since the last e-mail, I've had some shows here in the US as well, in both Wichita and Kansas City, which went over very well. The show in Wichita was originally an acoustic event, but Chad and Dustin both accompanied me, giving the audience a little bit more. The show itself was to raise money for the American Cancer Society, so hopefully we were able to help out a little bit. Thanks to Melissa Easterburg and everyone else involved with the organization- we had a great time. Earlier in the day before the show, I stopped in at Kissin Country 102.1 and went on-air with Rick Reagan. We chatted for a whole hour, had a bunch of laughs, and it was just an all-around great interview. Rick was able to make it out that night and catch our show at Sam's Place, which was the name of the club. Thank you to Rick and everyone at Kissin Country for all the support. The next thing on my to do list is obviously the Leonard Cohen show on the 18th in Canada, but up until then I'll be hooking up with some writers here in Nashville and hopefully with enough prayers we'll be able to get some good songs writing. Anyways, hope y'all are healthy and have a great night. God Bless!
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
8/1/09: On The Road
How’s everyone doing this weekend? I'm doing well, but at the moment I have a headache I'm trying to get rid of. I think it has a lot to do with the heat and humidity here in Nashville.
Yesterday my manager and I drove to Owensville, Missouri. We met up with my band to do a show at the Owensville fair. Trent Tomlinson was also on the bill for the evening’s entertainment. It was good to hang out with him and his band again, not to mention it was a great evening show and crowd wise. There was a lot of livestock at this fair, as well! I took some time to walk around the grounds to take it all in. There were cows, horses, a couple elephants, dog shows, so as you can tell there was a lot of entertainment for the families. It was good that I drove my truck there because after the show we dropped the band off at their hotel. Then, Lawrence and I headed back to Nashville. Five hours later (at about 5:00 in the morning) we arrived back to Nashville.
I'm getting excited for the 4th of August to roll around because I'm heading back up to Canada to do a show in Darwell, Alberta. I'll get to see my family, which I'm always thankful for. My parents are super excited about the deck my dad is building on our house. I'm looking forward to lounging around on it with them. He has had plans to build a deck on the front of the house for quite sometime, but was just waiting for the right time do it. That time is now! I saw the progress of the deck the last time I made it home and it looked awesome, can't wait to see it this time around!
Anyway, I hope you all have a great rest of the weekend and have a good night. God Bless!
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Yesterday my manager and I drove to Owensville, Missouri. We met up with my band to do a show at the Owensville fair. Trent Tomlinson was also on the bill for the evening’s entertainment. It was good to hang out with him and his band again, not to mention it was a great evening show and crowd wise. There was a lot of livestock at this fair, as well! I took some time to walk around the grounds to take it all in. There were cows, horses, a couple elephants, dog shows, so as you can tell there was a lot of entertainment for the families. It was good that I drove my truck there because after the show we dropped the band off at their hotel. Then, Lawrence and I headed back to Nashville. Five hours later (at about 5:00 in the morning) we arrived back to Nashville.
I'm getting excited for the 4th of August to roll around because I'm heading back up to Canada to do a show in Darwell, Alberta. I'll get to see my family, which I'm always thankful for. My parents are super excited about the deck my dad is building on our house. I'm looking forward to lounging around on it with them. He has had plans to build a deck on the front of the house for quite sometime, but was just waiting for the right time do it. That time is now! I saw the progress of the deck the last time I made it home and it looked awesome, can't wait to see it this time around!
Anyway, I hope you all have a great rest of the weekend and have a good night. God Bless!
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
7/1/09: Happy Canada Day & Happy 4th of July!
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian fans!! Also, Happy early 4th of July to my American fans!
I'm home here in Edmonton with my family just chilling in our living room watching some TV. I just got done having dinner at the Olive Garden with family and friends. It was delicious. I so appreciate being back here for not only the fact of seeing my family, friends and fans, but also just to be able to sit in the backyard on the deck at my parents’ house and reminisce on memories while my dogs are jumping up at me wanting to play. Actually, only one dog has the energy for that, my dog, Tod, is going on 16. The age is really starting to catch up to his brittle little body. I took them for a walk while taking my niece and nephew to the park the other day and Tod unexpectedly got a burst of energy. For a moment, I thought I had my little energized, excited pup back, but unfortunately, it didn't last.
I had a fun day with my sis and niece and nephew today. We took in the Canada Day festivities in Sherwood Park at the Millenium Park area and it was great for the kids, especially. Aubrie and Joe got their faces painted and we were all just able to spend some quality time together, which comes few and far between lately.
I'm not a parent yet, but could imagine it must be hard to see your children grow up so fast. I'm just the uncle and its shocking to me to see how fast they are growing up and becoming their own little individuals. Sure, you want them to grow up healthy and have a good life, but keeping them young remains at the top of the list.
Well, Barry flies into Edmonton tomorrow just after 1:00 in the afternoon, so we'll go pick him up…or not… Haha. Just kiddin’. Then, we will head for Calgary on Friday. I'm looking forward to playing the Calgary Stampede! Previous years have been awesome and memorable and I look forward to seeing what this year brings. Anyway, I will talk to you all soon when I have more to talk about, but until then, have a great evening. God Bless!
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Monday, June 29, 2009
6/29/09: Adam Update!
Well, with a successful CMA (Fan Fair) week in Nashville and being able to meet so many great music lovers, to a show back home in Canada and spending a very productive week in the Smokey Mountains along with some writing friends on a Christian writers retreat, I can’t complain and I can be very thankful for God’s Blessings.
Thank you all for continually letting me share my music with y’all and for your continued comments on my MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages. I’m excited about the things in the works. With upcoming shows in both the US and Canada to the WWJD movie, which is coming closer and closer to being finalized, its definitely good times!
I head to Denver mid-July for the premier of WWJD. Having not seen any of the footage yet, I am eagerly waiting to see the final movie, as I’m sure you could imagine! There is a trailer to view on WWJDmovie.com which gives an idea to what it is going be like, and I’m very pleased with how it looked! It was such a great opportunity to play a roll in this movie and can’t wait for y’all to see it!
I head home on the 29th of June, because I’m playing at the Calgary Stampede on the 3rd. This is a very big event held every year and attracts so many people from around the world. In addition to being a part of the Stampede, I’ll get that extra time with my family, which is always priceless. The last time I was home was the 14th through to the 20th of June, I had a chance to go see the Pixar movie, Up, with my Mom and Dad and niece. It was a great movie. There were some emotional points throughout it for sure!
I also did a show last night in Memphis for KIXX 106 on an outside stage downtown in front of a lot of excited fans. It was just me and my guitar! I played 35 minutes and, besides the sweltering heat, it went over very well. I usually sweat anyway when I perform, but add even more heat... bad combination! Haha. It felt and looked as though I had just walked out of shower. lol. Joey & Rory and Justin Moore followed the stage after me and they did very well, too.
Anyhow, that’s it summed up in a nutshell. I’m sure a lot of you have been able to see my Twitter messages to keep you up to date, I’ve been having fun with Twitter! Its cool! Oh, and before I forget… in the contest on my website in regards to getting to know me, I’ve read the comments on there and I just want to say thank you! Its comments like those that keep me going :0) I’ll talk to y’all soon and God Bless!
Thank you all for continually letting me share my music with y’all and for your continued comments on my MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages. I’m excited about the things in the works. With upcoming shows in both the US and Canada to the WWJD movie, which is coming closer and closer to being finalized, its definitely good times!
I head to Denver mid-July for the premier of WWJD. Having not seen any of the footage yet, I am eagerly waiting to see the final movie, as I’m sure you could imagine! There is a trailer to view on WWJDmovie.com which gives an idea to what it is going be like, and I’m very pleased with how it looked! It was such a great opportunity to play a roll in this movie and can’t wait for y’all to see it!
I head home on the 29th of June, because I’m playing at the Calgary Stampede on the 3rd. This is a very big event held every year and attracts so many people from around the world. In addition to being a part of the Stampede, I’ll get that extra time with my family, which is always priceless. The last time I was home was the 14th through to the 20th of June, I had a chance to go see the Pixar movie, Up, with my Mom and Dad and niece. It was a great movie. There were some emotional points throughout it for sure!
I also did a show last night in Memphis for KIXX 106 on an outside stage downtown in front of a lot of excited fans. It was just me and my guitar! I played 35 minutes and, besides the sweltering heat, it went over very well. I usually sweat anyway when I perform, but add even more heat... bad combination! Haha. It felt and looked as though I had just walked out of shower. lol. Joey & Rory and Justin Moore followed the stage after me and they did very well, too.
Anyhow, that’s it summed up in a nutshell. I’m sure a lot of you have been able to see my Twitter messages to keep you up to date, I’ve been having fun with Twitter! Its cool! Oh, and before I forget… in the contest on my website in regards to getting to know me, I’ve read the comments on there and I just want to say thank you! Its comments like those that keep me going :0) I’ll talk to y’all soon and God Bless!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
6/25/09: Adam Gregory Contest Sponsored by Got Country
Recently GotCountry was able to sit down and chat with rising star Adam Gregory. Adam was nice enough to give us some goodies to pass along to a lucky reader. All you have to do is leave us a comment about what you think of Adam and we will pick a lucky winner, if you don't feel comfortable leaving your email address on the site you can email it to us at gotcountry@ymail.com. If you missed our interview go to our website to read his answers on the questions you sent in. Don't forget to enter and good luck!Click To Enter Contest
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
5/18/09: Back In Nashville!
Just letting y'all know that I'm now back in Nashville after an amazing movie shoot in LA.. Like I had mentioned in my last journal it was such an amazing experience for many reasons. The actors and actresses were great to work with , plus all the crew members were very nice and easy going.The meaning of the movie tops off everything though and conveys a very positive message and I'm very excited for you all to see it. Well, the weather sure has been nice except for today, they're forecasting rain for today and tomorrow here in Nashville, but I love it anyway. I've found that most people here in Nashville get a little tense when it comes to driving in a little rain or snow, I on the other hand love it. I don't know what amuses me so much about it. I guess I turn into a big kid when it comes to driving through puddles and such, haha.. Anyways, hope y'all are doing well and I'll be in touch with you soon.. God Bless!
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Friday, May 8, 2009
5/8/09: On The Set Of WWJD
I’m thrilled to inform you all that the filming of WWJD is going so well! It never ceases to amaze me to watch how God is guiding me. This is yet another opportunity and blessing that I’ve been given to be a part of and having the opportunity not only to play a character in a movie with such a strong message, but having the opportunity to work with such gifted and talented actors and actresses is so cool. I would have never thought in a million years that I would get to act let alone jam on the guitar with John Shneider as though we were around a campfire just singing and letting the music play, but it’s become a reality and let me tell you this, he is one of the nicest, coolest guys I’ve met and worked with. Really, every person and every character in this movie or associated with this movie is top notch in my books. I say it like that, because the atmosphere is so laid back and relaxed feeling, and everyone has been super nice, which is not always the case. I’ve heard horror stories of other movie sets, where niceness is not considered in their vocabulary and things get stressful, but that’s not the case here.. I’m having so much Fun!! I’ll talk to you guys soon, I have an early set call tomorrow so I really should be getting some sleep now. Hope you’re all doing well, I miss y’all and I’ll talk to you soon. God Bless!
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Staring in New Film "WWJD"
(Nashville, Tennessee - May 4, 2009) Country recording artist Adam Gregory has signed on to co-star in the upcoming film "WWJD" based on one of the best-selling Christian books of all-time.
Based on the classic Charles Sheldon book, "In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do," the novel currently sells an average of 100,000 copies per year and is available in 26 languages around the world. More than 40 million copies have been sold since it was written in 1896, second only to the Bible.
Gregory will star in the film alongside John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard tv show, Nip/Tuck, CSI, Smallville) and Maxine Bahns (The Mentalist, The Lost Tribe).
"My faith and my music are very closely related," says Gregory. "I feel truly blessed for an opportunity where I can incorporate both into a project that serves a bigger purpose and will hopefully reach millions of others."
Gregory's original song "What Would Jesus Do," from his recent Canadian release Crazy Days, will also be featured in the film. The song was co-written by Keith Follese and Billy Yates.
The film, produced by Joe and Jack Nasser and Kevin Otto of Nasser Entertainment Group, follows four individuals (a singer, a newspaper editor, a wealthy philanthropist and a minister who has lost his faith) as they vow to walk in "the steps of Jesus."
Filming on the project begins this week in Los Angeles, CA.
Based on the classic Charles Sheldon book, "In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do," the novel currently sells an average of 100,000 copies per year and is available in 26 languages around the world. More than 40 million copies have been sold since it was written in 1896, second only to the Bible.
Gregory will star in the film alongside John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard tv show, Nip/Tuck, CSI, Smallville) and Maxine Bahns (The Mentalist, The Lost Tribe).
"My faith and my music are very closely related," says Gregory. "I feel truly blessed for an opportunity where I can incorporate both into a project that serves a bigger purpose and will hopefully reach millions of others."
Gregory's original song "What Would Jesus Do," from his recent Canadian release Crazy Days, will also be featured in the film. The song was co-written by Keith Follese and Billy Yates.
The film, produced by Joe and Jack Nasser and Kevin Otto of Nasser Entertainment Group, follows four individuals (a singer, a newspaper editor, a wealthy philanthropist and a minister who has lost his faith) as they vow to walk in "the steps of Jesus."
Filming on the project begins this week in Los Angeles, CA.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
4/17/09: Vocal Update!
Hey everyone, I hope y'all had a great Easter. I just wanted to say hi to let you know you haven't been forgotten! I do apologize for the cancellation of shows, but I will come back energized and more eager then ever. I could look at this time off as a complete negative if that's the path I choose, but I only shoot for the positives in life and I know the good Lord will make the grass greener on the other side allowing a recovery. I do hope y'all are doing well and were able to spend Easter with friends and family. Although I've been put on rest, that didn't stop me from at least spending time with some family and friends for Easter, so everything worked out. Anyways, God bless y'all and I'll be in touch!
ag)
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
4/8/09: Vocal Rest
It is with great disappointment that I must announce the cancellation of several of my dates and appearances for the next few weeks. I am battling a throat condition from being sick which the doctors have informed me can only be properly treated with rest. Unfortunately, that means I will be unable to perform until further notice. I truly hate this, but I want to take the best care of my vocal chords, which are my lifeline! I want to be back touring and seeing you guys AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! My fans mean the world to me, and I want to thank all of you for your concern, support, understanding, and prayers. I will make this up to you, and can't wait to see you all soon.
God Bless,
ag)
God Bless,
ag)
Thursday, April 2, 2009
4/2/09: Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, & Canada Album Promotion!
Wisconsin - land of the famous cheese curds and home to none other then Brad Austin (known for his top notch DJ'ing skills on Q106). He's one of the coolest dudes out there. He stops at nothing to make every one of our visits to Wisconsin as memorable and fun as possible. I also want to mention the tremendous support that he and everybody at the station has given me on my records. We were lucky enough to be able to play the Scatz club in Madison. Not only was it a great club atmosphere, but the people were awesome and treated us very well. It was ladies night at the club so there was a nice little crowd to play for.
The next day we flew to Pittsburgh where the band and I played another Soles4Souls show at The Saddle Ridge. We played along with Kate and Kacey (The Coppolas). I definitely like to thank Frank and everyone from FROGGY for all their support on my records from day one. I would also like to thank Chachi for helping us have a great visit to the station.
Canada, Canada here we come!! I was super excited to be able to fly home and do the Ronald McDonald event for the 5th year in a row. We were able to raise about $30,000 for the Ronald McDonald House and managed to break the $100,000 mark for all the five years combined. Thanks to my good friend, Cathy Fowler, for her continuous belief in me, and all that she does on behalf of the house. What really puts things into perspective for me is to hear the stories every year directly from the people the house has helped. I can't tell you what a sense of joy it brings my heart to offer a helping hand and see the difference it makes in peoples’ lives.
From Red Deer, AB my family, most of the band, and I drove back to Edmonton. I had Sunday, the following day, off with my family. Barry, my road manager, flew up to Canada with me. There was snow covering the ground, but, as Barry would say, he had his Jimmy Wayne coat to keep him warm - lol. We made the best with the time we were given, and my family and I took Barry over to West Edmonton Mall. Needless to say, I think Barry was quite blown away with how big the mall actually was! I believe that Barry may now be obligated to take his wife and daughter to the mall sometime down the road for a shopping spree – haha. Sorry, Barry, I had to do it man. Sunday went by all to fast then Monday rolled around. I had a promo day in Edmonton for my new album "Crazy Days." Megan, my record rep from Canada spent all morning taking us to different locations. I visited BT (Breakfast Television) where I did an interview and played both “Crazy Days” and “What It Takes” live. Following that, I did an interview for Access TV/C-TV. Once I finished that we headed over to CFCW, and I had an on air interview with Stella. I've been through CFCW a lot in the past ten years of my career, so it was great seeing them all again. CFCW is situated right inside West Edmonton Mall so when people walk by they can actually see into the studio headquarters. I was pleasantly surprised when my good friend Hank showed up to say hi. Hank and I go back a little ways. We used to sing around the campfire at our friend Hal's yearly fish fry. Unfortunately, Hal has passed on so I'm not sure if the fish fry will live on or not, but there certainly were a lot of good memories made. So all in all, as I'm sure you can tell, it was a very productive day. That's not even mentioning my CD release party that Chris Sheetz from CISN hosted for me later that night. Before the release party I stopped in at the CISN Country station and did an interview on air with Chris. I also performed a live acoustic version of "Down The Road.” The original thought behind my CD release party was to have a small intimate crowd; however, after Chris heard that I would be bringing about 40 family members, he opened the flood gates. The night of the show there was a crowd of over 300. I was just as excited to see the fans as they were to see me. Mark, Robin, David, and myself played about six songs acoustically. I signed autographs after to practically everyone in the house and sold close to 100 CD's. It sure is nice to see and feel the support I still get from my dedicated Canadian fans to this day. Y'all know that you ROCK! I felt kinda bad that night because I didn't get the preferred amount of time I would've liked to have to chat with everyone. We had to rush off because we were in such a hurry to catch a flight to Calgary. Chris mentioned to everyone I had to rush to catch a plane, and, thankfully, they all understood.
My family took us to the airport after that, and we were on our way to Calgary. I pretty much had the same kind of promo day in Calgary as I did in Edmonton. First I visited the Country 105 studios for an on air interview and acoustic performance. After that I made an appearance at Calgary's BK (Breakfast T.V.). I wanna thank Greg, another record rep., for all his help in Calgary while we were there. I did a taped interview with The City Show, CITY T.V. in the same building as BK. This time it was just an interview segment for the show. After having been away from Canada for quite some time, there's a lot that people are interested to know such as what I've been up to and about the album, etc. The next visit I made was to Calgary FM. I was interviewed by Phoenix and then had a two song acoustic performance. It was my first time in that studio because it's fairly new, but I left with a positive feeling about it. To end the day in Calgary, we stopped by another Ronald McDonald House. Not only did I have the honor of once again meeting the families staying there, but I also had the chance to sing for them as well. There is so much LOVE and WARMTH running through that house. It tugs at the ole heart strings to know the difference being made there by helping these families out.
From there Greg rushed Barry and I to the airport, and we caught our flight to Las Vegas. I'm here in Vegas now and excited about attending the ACM Awards on Sunday. You guys have a great night, okay, and I will talk y'all soon!
God Bless!
ag
The next day we flew to Pittsburgh where the band and I played another Soles4Souls show at The Saddle Ridge. We played along with Kate and Kacey (The Coppolas). I definitely like to thank Frank and everyone from FROGGY for all their support on my records from day one. I would also like to thank Chachi for helping us have a great visit to the station.
Canada, Canada here we come!! I was super excited to be able to fly home and do the Ronald McDonald event for the 5th year in a row. We were able to raise about $30,000 for the Ronald McDonald House and managed to break the $100,000 mark for all the five years combined. Thanks to my good friend, Cathy Fowler, for her continuous belief in me, and all that she does on behalf of the house. What really puts things into perspective for me is to hear the stories every year directly from the people the house has helped. I can't tell you what a sense of joy it brings my heart to offer a helping hand and see the difference it makes in peoples’ lives.
From Red Deer, AB my family, most of the band, and I drove back to Edmonton. I had Sunday, the following day, off with my family. Barry, my road manager, flew up to Canada with me. There was snow covering the ground, but, as Barry would say, he had his Jimmy Wayne coat to keep him warm - lol. We made the best with the time we were given, and my family and I took Barry over to West Edmonton Mall. Needless to say, I think Barry was quite blown away with how big the mall actually was! I believe that Barry may now be obligated to take his wife and daughter to the mall sometime down the road for a shopping spree – haha. Sorry, Barry, I had to do it man. Sunday went by all to fast then Monday rolled around. I had a promo day in Edmonton for my new album "Crazy Days." Megan, my record rep from Canada spent all morning taking us to different locations. I visited BT (Breakfast Television) where I did an interview and played both “Crazy Days” and “What It Takes” live. Following that, I did an interview for Access TV/C-TV. Once I finished that we headed over to CFCW, and I had an on air interview with Stella. I've been through CFCW a lot in the past ten years of my career, so it was great seeing them all again. CFCW is situated right inside West Edmonton Mall so when people walk by they can actually see into the studio headquarters. I was pleasantly surprised when my good friend Hank showed up to say hi. Hank and I go back a little ways. We used to sing around the campfire at our friend Hal's yearly fish fry. Unfortunately, Hal has passed on so I'm not sure if the fish fry will live on or not, but there certainly were a lot of good memories made. So all in all, as I'm sure you can tell, it was a very productive day. That's not even mentioning my CD release party that Chris Sheetz from CISN hosted for me later that night. Before the release party I stopped in at the CISN Country station and did an interview on air with Chris. I also performed a live acoustic version of "Down The Road.” The original thought behind my CD release party was to have a small intimate crowd; however, after Chris heard that I would be bringing about 40 family members, he opened the flood gates. The night of the show there was a crowd of over 300. I was just as excited to see the fans as they were to see me. Mark, Robin, David, and myself played about six songs acoustically. I signed autographs after to practically everyone in the house and sold close to 100 CD's. It sure is nice to see and feel the support I still get from my dedicated Canadian fans to this day. Y'all know that you ROCK! I felt kinda bad that night because I didn't get the preferred amount of time I would've liked to have to chat with everyone. We had to rush off because we were in such a hurry to catch a flight to Calgary. Chris mentioned to everyone I had to rush to catch a plane, and, thankfully, they all understood.
My family took us to the airport after that, and we were on our way to Calgary. I pretty much had the same kind of promo day in Calgary as I did in Edmonton. First I visited the Country 105 studios for an on air interview and acoustic performance. After that I made an appearance at Calgary's BK (Breakfast T.V.). I wanna thank Greg, another record rep., for all his help in Calgary while we were there. I did a taped interview with The City Show, CITY T.V. in the same building as BK. This time it was just an interview segment for the show. After having been away from Canada for quite some time, there's a lot that people are interested to know such as what I've been up to and about the album, etc. The next visit I made was to Calgary FM. I was interviewed by Phoenix and then had a two song acoustic performance. It was my first time in that studio because it's fairly new, but I left with a positive feeling about it. To end the day in Calgary, we stopped by another Ronald McDonald House. Not only did I have the honor of once again meeting the families staying there, but I also had the chance to sing for them as well. There is so much LOVE and WARMTH running through that house. It tugs at the ole heart strings to know the difference being made there by helping these families out.
From there Greg rushed Barry and I to the airport, and we caught our flight to Las Vegas. I'm here in Vegas now and excited about attending the ACM Awards on Sunday. You guys have a great night, okay, and I will talk y'all soon!
God Bless!
ag
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
3/24/09: Touring Last Week!
We've been super busy this past week traveling and playing lots of shows. The recent shows I've done have benefited Soles4Souls. We've been fortunate enough to raise money for the organization. Our Knoxville show went very well and I'd like to thank WIVK for all their support and involvement in the cause. I actually went by the station earlier that day and was interviewed by Alan Jackson - OH, I mean Gunner - lol.. Gunner is an absolute spitting image of Alan Jackson, and supposedly his wife looks a lot like Alan's wife as well. What are the odds of that? Gunner said that that's the reason he hadn't been to the CMA's or ACM's in a while because he couldn't go anywhere without people coming up to him asking for autographs and such, lol. I thought it was pretty funny, and Gunner if you are reading this, sorry one more thing and then I will let this rest. Gunner said that last year during the CMA's somebody called into the station claiming that the show is taped and not live. This person said this because they were sitting in a restaurant and saw Gunner thinking he was Alan, yet saw Alan on the award show too, lol.
Mike from the station is awesome as well and was introducing me to everyone at Cotton Eyed Joe's that night, so thanks for everything Mike and for all the support. I want to also mention that we had a few of our dedicated fans at the show - Bert and Melanie, who usually spoil us with cookies! At this show, Bert handed me a cookie the size of my face, which is a pretty big face, lol. Needless to say that poor cookie didn't stand a chance when the 8 people in the band got their hands on it! haha. Thanks Melanie and Bert and I hope to see Wyvetta out again soon. Chattanooga was our next stop and this was promoted by US 101. I had a station visit there as well with Dex and Big Al, and both of them were so awesome to me and complimentary...which is always nice. That night we played at the Rhythm & Brews bar, It was a two level club right near the big Tennessee Aquarium, with a cozy atmosphere to it. We played a 90-minute set. Earlier in the day, the band and I were a little adventurous and went up the Incline Railway. This train goes right up the side of Lookout Mountain and is said to be the fastest man made transportation in the world for any kind of mountain lift/train. I took some pics on my phone as well as video footage for my AG-TV, which y'all will be able to see soon.
Our next gig was in Tucson, AZ. We actually flew into Phoenix, rented a couple of vans and then drove to Tucson. In Tucson, we played at the Cactus Moon. I visited KIIM-FM earlier in the day where I was welcomed by the lovely Lois Lewis who has been nothing but supportive of me. They had a little pup running around the station while we were there (a little baby lab named Huffley) and it was adorable. I got to meet some nice folks while we were there too, and I was smothered in hugs by a little girl at the station. She was awesome! The club really pumped us up, and was supportive of the whole Soles4Souls promotion. They really did it right and got the crowd pumped for the show! As well as having a great crowd, I had some fellow Canadians attend the show. They were sitting in the front row. I also had some other friends of mine from the Phoenix area come out. The next day we traveled back to Phoenix where I was reunited with my great friends at KMLE. I did a dinner with some winners at Cadillac Ranch and it was great because I got to hang with Gwen and her daughter and 4 other guests.
The show later that night was held right in the square of Tempe Marketplace. I've been there before a few times, but never to play. The weather couldn't have been any better for us. Thanks to Gwen Foster for being a huge supporter and friend, and for helping this show be a success.
From Phoenix we hopped a flight to Colorado Springs. I did a show at the Carey On Saloon and LeShawn and everybody at the club were so great...thanks guys! We can't wait to come back! And thanks to Cat Country for putting this show together with us! Letty and Lindsey -two of my biggest supporters- surprised us by coming out and they were bearing gifts with them! A big box filled with homemade cookies, brownies, chocolate covered pretzels and much much more...filling this box to the rim. It was incredible! Thank you Letty and Lindsey, you two are so awesome and I really appreciate you both. This point in the journal brings me to where we are now...Norfolk, VA. We have a show with Kate & Kacey Coppola at the Saddle Ridge tonight. This is sponsored by The Eagle and I'm looking forward to seeing my friend Shomby and Mark from the station! Hope you've all had a great week and I will be sending out more AG-TV videos for y'all to see soon. God Bless!
ag)
Mike from the station is awesome as well and was introducing me to everyone at Cotton Eyed Joe's that night, so thanks for everything Mike and for all the support. I want to also mention that we had a few of our dedicated fans at the show - Bert and Melanie, who usually spoil us with cookies! At this show, Bert handed me a cookie the size of my face, which is a pretty big face, lol. Needless to say that poor cookie didn't stand a chance when the 8 people in the band got their hands on it! haha. Thanks Melanie and Bert and I hope to see Wyvetta out again soon. Chattanooga was our next stop and this was promoted by US 101. I had a station visit there as well with Dex and Big Al, and both of them were so awesome to me and complimentary...which is always nice. That night we played at the Rhythm & Brews bar, It was a two level club right near the big Tennessee Aquarium, with a cozy atmosphere to it. We played a 90-minute set. Earlier in the day, the band and I were a little adventurous and went up the Incline Railway. This train goes right up the side of Lookout Mountain and is said to be the fastest man made transportation in the world for any kind of mountain lift/train. I took some pics on my phone as well as video footage for my AG-TV, which y'all will be able to see soon.
Our next gig was in Tucson, AZ. We actually flew into Phoenix, rented a couple of vans and then drove to Tucson. In Tucson, we played at the Cactus Moon. I visited KIIM-FM earlier in the day where I was welcomed by the lovely Lois Lewis who has been nothing but supportive of me. They had a little pup running around the station while we were there (a little baby lab named Huffley) and it was adorable. I got to meet some nice folks while we were there too, and I was smothered in hugs by a little girl at the station. She was awesome! The club really pumped us up, and was supportive of the whole Soles4Souls promotion. They really did it right and got the crowd pumped for the show! As well as having a great crowd, I had some fellow Canadians attend the show. They were sitting in the front row. I also had some other friends of mine from the Phoenix area come out. The next day we traveled back to Phoenix where I was reunited with my great friends at KMLE. I did a dinner with some winners at Cadillac Ranch and it was great because I got to hang with Gwen and her daughter and 4 other guests.
The show later that night was held right in the square of Tempe Marketplace. I've been there before a few times, but never to play. The weather couldn't have been any better for us. Thanks to Gwen Foster for being a huge supporter and friend, and for helping this show be a success.
From Phoenix we hopped a flight to Colorado Springs. I did a show at the Carey On Saloon and LeShawn and everybody at the club were so great...thanks guys! We can't wait to come back! And thanks to Cat Country for putting this show together with us! Letty and Lindsey -two of my biggest supporters- surprised us by coming out and they were bearing gifts with them! A big box filled with homemade cookies, brownies, chocolate covered pretzels and much much more...filling this box to the rim. It was incredible! Thank you Letty and Lindsey, you two are so awesome and I really appreciate you both. This point in the journal brings me to where we are now...Norfolk, VA. We have a show with Kate & Kacey Coppola at the Saddle Ridge tonight. This is sponsored by The Eagle and I'm looking forward to seeing my friend Shomby and Mark from the station! Hope you've all had a great week and I will be sending out more AG-TV videos for y'all to see soon. God Bless!
ag)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
3/24/09: Canadian Album Released Today
Hey Everyone,
My new album "CRAZY DAY'S" is in stores today in Canada everyone and I am pumped about it!!! Thanks so much for hanging in there guys, I along with so many other people made this album the best it could be for your listening enjoyment. I hope y'all like it and just to let you know a brand new journal along with more AGTV will be on its way to y'all soon. Thank you and God Bless!
ag)
My new album "CRAZY DAY'S" is in stores today in Canada everyone and I am pumped about it!!! Thanks so much for hanging in there guys, I along with so many other people made this album the best it could be for your listening enjoyment. I hope y'all like it and just to let you know a brand new journal along with more AGTV will be on its way to y'all soon. Thank you and God Bless!
ag)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
3/19/09: Here is a story on Adam 's upcoming Soles4Souls Pittsburgh show.
Check it Out!
http://www.wpxi.com/vj/18959426/detail.html
http://www.wpxi.com/vj/18959426/detail.html
Monday, March 16, 2009
3/13/09: Album Release Date Announced!
Hey everyone, I hope you’ve all had a great week.
I’ve been staying busy traveling all over the place and singing my songs. Also I’ve literally had my phone strapped to my ear calling my friends at radio stations across not only the U.S, but Canada as well. For any of my Canadian fans/friends who are reading this, I figured you might want to know that my brand new album is set for release in Canada on March 24th. I’m super excited that it’s finally coming out. To my new American friends/fans, I'm excited that it is going to be released in the U.S later this year as well.
In other news, I had the opportunity to write with Billy Dean this past week. Billy has had lots of success with songs such as “Let Them Be Little,” “Billy The Kid,” and the list goes on. I actually just recently found out that Billy and Richie McDonald (former lead singer from Lonestar) wrote “Let Them Be Little” together. My parents get emotional every time they hear that song. I guess when you’re a parent, a song like that hits you a little differently and tugs at the ole heart strings. If there is anything that I miss telling you guys about I do, I apologize because everything is important to me it’s just that we cover so many things in a given week, it’s hard to keep track of it all.
Some of my more memorable moments that stick out in my mind though, is us going to Jordan’s Furniture in Boston, for my friends from WKLB. The event was based around their St. Jude Marathon, to raise lots of money for St. Jude. I met a 12-year old boy there named Colt who completely inspired me and showed me another reason why St. Jude is a blessing. Colt has already had to overcome so many obstacles in regards to his health for such a young guy, and he’ll tell you himself that he’s thankful and owes a lot to St. Jude. This young man totally blew me away and I guess if you had to go through everything he’s gone through in his life, it would force you to have to grow up a little faster. I just sat down and chatted with him one on one and seriously, I have never before met a young man like him. I say young man because he’s so much beyond a 12-year olds maturity and way of thinking. I really felt like I was sitting there talking to an adult. I gave him my number and we're going to keep in touch. I’ve talked to Colt now a few times on the phone and he left me a message a few days back giving me the total earnings for WKLB's St. Jude Radiothon...and it was over $400,000, WOW!! Think of how much that’s going to help out. And Colt, if you are reading this buddy, I’ll keep you in my prayers bro.
This Jordan's Furniture place where I performed was absolutely amazing. The area where I performed had all these things made out of Jellybeans. I think I heard there were about 35 million jellybeans in there, it was crazy. And, they were giving trapeze lessons...all kinds of stuff. Pretty cool place. You can check it out on my website on a segment of my AGTV!
After I performed at Jordan's, I went to dinner with Mike & Ginny from WKLB. They are such great people. Their son Ben came too, he's such a great kid. And, my labelmates - Kate & Kacey Coppola joined us for dinner as well, we had a great time. I'm looking forward to several more dates on the road with them. Thanks to Ginny & Mike and WKLB for having me in for the St. Jude Show, I'm so happy to have been a part of it.
The next morning Shelley, Mark and myself flew to Sacramento. Upon arrival, we immediately headed to visit with my friends from KNCI. I went on the air with Greg Cole, and totally unexpected when we got there, Richie McDonald was in the studio already and asked if I’d like to sit in with him. I thought that was pretty cool, so I went in and we all chatted. One of the first tours I ever went on in Canada was with Lonestar, so I figured it was a great opportunity to share some of my experiences with them, and all three of us were laughing. It’s great memories, and Richie is one of the coolest people. That night David Nail, myself and Richie did an acoustic show for an audience of about 2000 screaming girls. Yep, you guessed it, it was “Girls Night Out”. The three of us and maybe a hand full of other guys who were working there were the only guys allowed, lol. It was an awesome show we had so much fun. Thanks to Greg and Mark from KNCI for inviting me to be on the show. Later on that night, I was talking to Richie a little more and asked if he would consider writing with me sometime and he said he would love to, so hopefully we'll make that happen.
Now I’m at home in Nashville and it’s been a relaxing Sunday. My evening is looking open so I’m just gonna take advantage of the time and relax... Talk to y’all soon and have a great evening and week ahead.
God Bless!
ag)
I’ve been staying busy traveling all over the place and singing my songs. Also I’ve literally had my phone strapped to my ear calling my friends at radio stations across not only the U.S, but Canada as well. For any of my Canadian fans/friends who are reading this, I figured you might want to know that my brand new album is set for release in Canada on March 24th. I’m super excited that it’s finally coming out. To my new American friends/fans, I'm excited that it is going to be released in the U.S later this year as well.
In other news, I had the opportunity to write with Billy Dean this past week. Billy has had lots of success with songs such as “Let Them Be Little,” “Billy The Kid,” and the list goes on. I actually just recently found out that Billy and Richie McDonald (former lead singer from Lonestar) wrote “Let Them Be Little” together. My parents get emotional every time they hear that song. I guess when you’re a parent, a song like that hits you a little differently and tugs at the ole heart strings. If there is anything that I miss telling you guys about I do, I apologize because everything is important to me it’s just that we cover so many things in a given week, it’s hard to keep track of it all.
Some of my more memorable moments that stick out in my mind though, is us going to Jordan’s Furniture in Boston, for my friends from WKLB. The event was based around their St. Jude Marathon, to raise lots of money for St. Jude. I met a 12-year old boy there named Colt who completely inspired me and showed me another reason why St. Jude is a blessing. Colt has already had to overcome so many obstacles in regards to his health for such a young guy, and he’ll tell you himself that he’s thankful and owes a lot to St. Jude. This young man totally blew me away and I guess if you had to go through everything he’s gone through in his life, it would force you to have to grow up a little faster. I just sat down and chatted with him one on one and seriously, I have never before met a young man like him. I say young man because he’s so much beyond a 12-year olds maturity and way of thinking. I really felt like I was sitting there talking to an adult. I gave him my number and we're going to keep in touch. I’ve talked to Colt now a few times on the phone and he left me a message a few days back giving me the total earnings for WKLB's St. Jude Radiothon...and it was over $400,000, WOW!! Think of how much that’s going to help out. And Colt, if you are reading this buddy, I’ll keep you in my prayers bro.
This Jordan's Furniture place where I performed was absolutely amazing. The area where I performed had all these things made out of Jellybeans. I think I heard there were about 35 million jellybeans in there, it was crazy. And, they were giving trapeze lessons...all kinds of stuff. Pretty cool place. You can check it out on my website on a segment of my AGTV!
After I performed at Jordan's, I went to dinner with Mike & Ginny from WKLB. They are such great people. Their son Ben came too, he's such a great kid. And, my labelmates - Kate & Kacey Coppola joined us for dinner as well, we had a great time. I'm looking forward to several more dates on the road with them. Thanks to Ginny & Mike and WKLB for having me in for the St. Jude Show, I'm so happy to have been a part of it.
The next morning Shelley, Mark and myself flew to Sacramento. Upon arrival, we immediately headed to visit with my friends from KNCI. I went on the air with Greg Cole, and totally unexpected when we got there, Richie McDonald was in the studio already and asked if I’d like to sit in with him. I thought that was pretty cool, so I went in and we all chatted. One of the first tours I ever went on in Canada was with Lonestar, so I figured it was a great opportunity to share some of my experiences with them, and all three of us were laughing. It’s great memories, and Richie is one of the coolest people. That night David Nail, myself and Richie did an acoustic show for an audience of about 2000 screaming girls. Yep, you guessed it, it was “Girls Night Out”. The three of us and maybe a hand full of other guys who were working there were the only guys allowed, lol. It was an awesome show we had so much fun. Thanks to Greg and Mark from KNCI for inviting me to be on the show. Later on that night, I was talking to Richie a little more and asked if he would consider writing with me sometime and he said he would love to, so hopefully we'll make that happen.
Now I’m at home in Nashville and it’s been a relaxing Sunday. My evening is looking open so I’m just gonna take advantage of the time and relax... Talk to y’all soon and have a great evening and week ahead.
God Bless!
ag)
Monday, March 9, 2009
3/6/09: CRS Week Wrap Up
Hey y'all! How you been? Things have been going real well for me...
This year's CRS (Country Radio Seminar) was held this past week in Nashville. It was a success and we got a lot accomplished in our three days there! I am in Muskegon, Michigan right now though, and the weather has been rainy and somewhat gloomy ever since we arrived, and not looking to let up at all.
I've really been getting into the AG TV flip videos a lot lately. They are being uploaded to my site for all of you to see real soon. I started doing AG TV so that all of you could see what the behind-the-scenes stuff looks like - kind of like a visual to the journals I already write. So, please go check out AG TV! You can see it on my website at adamgregory.com.
Speaking more on the CRS topic though, besides having done back to back interviews and tons of mingling, the band and I were given the opportunity to play in the Nashville Convention Center at the CRS New Faces Cocktail Reception. It was a prime time and prime location to capture a radio audience and I think we did just that. Not only was it great to see my radio friends I've gotten to know this past year, but for them to come watch the show and stick around even when the doors to the New Faces Show opened early....THAT was awesome!
Also, on Friday night I performed at Cadillac Ranch down on Broadway as part of the first ever Digital Rodeo Jam. I was part of a lineup that included a couple dozen other artists that played to a packed house. We each performed Top 40 cover songs, so I did my version of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around." It was a lot of fun! Thank you to my friends at Digital Rodeo for inviting me to be part of it. Anyways, I hope y'all can check out my AG TV videos for more of what I've been up to the last little while. And there will be more videos on the way.
Have a great day everyone...bye!
ag)
This year's CRS (Country Radio Seminar) was held this past week in Nashville. It was a success and we got a lot accomplished in our three days there! I am in Muskegon, Michigan right now though, and the weather has been rainy and somewhat gloomy ever since we arrived, and not looking to let up at all.
I've really been getting into the AG TV flip videos a lot lately. They are being uploaded to my site for all of you to see real soon. I started doing AG TV so that all of you could see what the behind-the-scenes stuff looks like - kind of like a visual to the journals I already write. So, please go check out AG TV! You can see it on my website at adamgregory.com.
Speaking more on the CRS topic though, besides having done back to back interviews and tons of mingling, the band and I were given the opportunity to play in the Nashville Convention Center at the CRS New Faces Cocktail Reception. It was a prime time and prime location to capture a radio audience and I think we did just that. Not only was it great to see my radio friends I've gotten to know this past year, but for them to come watch the show and stick around even when the doors to the New Faces Show opened early....THAT was awesome!
Also, on Friday night I performed at Cadillac Ranch down on Broadway as part of the first ever Digital Rodeo Jam. I was part of a lineup that included a couple dozen other artists that played to a packed house. We each performed Top 40 cover songs, so I did my version of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around." It was a lot of fun! Thank you to my friends at Digital Rodeo for inviting me to be part of it. Anyways, I hope y'all can check out my AG TV videos for more of what I've been up to the last little while. And there will be more videos on the way.
Have a great day everyone...bye!
ag)
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
2/25/09: #11 on GAC Top Twenty!! Thanks!!!
Hey everyone, how’s it going?
Thank you, thank you, thank you to each and every one of you who voted for “What It Takes” this past week! We debuted on the GAC Top Twenty countdown at #11 - YES! I truly appreciate all the support. Sorry for taking a little bit longer to get this journal out to y’all, but I’ve been so focused on making tons and tons of radio calls recently. An important part of my day is taking time out to show appreciation to everyone who makes it possible for me to have a career in this business, and that is definitely something I believe very strongly in. Radio has been awesome to me down here and in Canada, and I enjoy spending the time -- however long it takes to call them all up and say "hey" and "thank you!"
Something new I've started doing for all you fans is called “ag TV." Basically, we shoot video footage of events taken from the road. It’s mostly me acting goofy, but it's also a look into what we do out on the road, on the bus, in planes and everything in between. It’s an addition to what I already do by writing journals, just more of a visual experience for y’all.
This past week, I did shows with Gary Allan and Blake Shelton, both of which were awesome. The crowds were amazing - 5,000 people at each event! It was a great opportunity for the band and I to get in front of more people and make more fans, which is always the goal. The other night, our flight ended up being so delayed out of L.A. that by the time we got into Austin at 2 am it made no sense for us to get a hotel before our 6 am flight out to Nashville. So, we ended up just camping out in the Austin airport that night. My manager Lawrence has always told me that I should get used to sleeping standing up and sleeping in airports! I guess this was our first introduction to that. I was cool with it though, because there was a vending maching and a chair that I could stretch out in and relax. Mark, Robin and Graham were laid out and snoring on the floor in front of Shelley and I, and there was a few times that we just burst out laughing. I guess we were a little delirious at the time, so everything seemed a lot funnier, haha.
Anyhow, we’re all safely back in Nashville and I’m just chilling out right now, watching this new show on TV called “High School Reunion.” It’s pretty good, actually. Well, y’all have a great evening and I'll be in touch with you next week. God Bless!
ag)
Friday, February 20, 2009
2/20/09: Conversations with Gwen Foster From KMLE
Hey everyone,
I'm back on the bus, taking back a couple of Ice Mountain waters and watching the world pass by. I always say whenever I'm sitting within the walls of this bus with the curtains down, that I could be anywhere. It really puts me in a happy state of mind and I think that's how I manage to enjoy being on the bus so much for so many hours, I love it. I would love to bring all you fans with me out here on the road, but unfortunately the bus isn't big enough. It is barely big enough for 11 dudes, haha.
I told you a few weeks ago about something cool that I was going to be doing with my good friend Gwen Foster from KMLE radio in Phoenix, where she calls me on a weekly basis and we recap the events of my week. Afterwards, she posts our conversation on www.kmle108.com. We talk about everything from my songwriting to what I do in my down time, just about anything that will let people know what goes on in my life on a weekly basis. Anyhow, I did that today with Gwen and we talked for probably 15 minutes or so and I really enjoyed that, as I do every time we talk.
Now we're heading down the road to Springfield, Mo. for a show there. If any of you are from that area, we would love to have you out at the show. The show will be at the Shrine Mosque and the doors are at 7pm. Again would love to see you out. Well, I'm signing out for the night, but you guys take care and stay warm. I will talk to you very soon. God Bless!
ag)
I'm back on the bus, taking back a couple of Ice Mountain waters and watching the world pass by. I always say whenever I'm sitting within the walls of this bus with the curtains down, that I could be anywhere. It really puts me in a happy state of mind and I think that's how I manage to enjoy being on the bus so much for so many hours, I love it. I would love to bring all you fans with me out here on the road, but unfortunately the bus isn't big enough. It is barely big enough for 11 dudes, haha.
I told you a few weeks ago about something cool that I was going to be doing with my good friend Gwen Foster from KMLE radio in Phoenix, where she calls me on a weekly basis and we recap the events of my week. Afterwards, she posts our conversation on www.kmle108.com. We talk about everything from my songwriting to what I do in my down time, just about anything that will let people know what goes on in my life on a weekly basis. Anyhow, I did that today with Gwen and we talked for probably 15 minutes or so and I really enjoyed that, as I do every time we talk.
Now we're heading down the road to Springfield, Mo. for a show there. If any of you are from that area, we would love to have you out at the show. The show will be at the Shrine Mosque and the doors are at 7pm. Again would love to see you out. Well, I'm signing out for the night, but you guys take care and stay warm. I will talk to you very soon. God Bless!
ag)
Sunday, February 15, 2009
2/13/09: Soles4Souls Week Wrap-Up!
This past week has definitely been productive and memorable. Monday morning I went with Lawrence, my manager, over to BMI where I signed an exclusive songwriter agreement deal with BMI. Following that, I met up with Anthony Smith and he and I were inspired to write a really cool song. Although it is unfinished, it has potential to be a great song. 3 o'clock rolled around all too fast that day and Shelley, Mark and myself caught a flight to Detroit where we would find the next few days to be very busy and keep us on our feet. That night in Detroit, we went to dinner with Tim Roberts from WYCD and his wife Lori. We had an enjoyable three-hour visit with them. Tim had the great idea of ordering Peking Duck and it was freakin' awesome! I don't think I've ever had anything like it before. They brought it out on this tray, it was like a whole duck and they cut it up in front of us and then they rolled it up in this special bread and yeah! That's pretty much all I can say about it, It was good.
Not that you guys care, but I have seriously gotten into egg and rice noodles to the point where I can't get enough. If my mom was here... she would be saying to me, "Adam, your going to turn into a gigantic noodle someday if you don't stop eating so much pasta" - ha-ha. Growing up, I was the type of kid that was fussy and would not eat much. When it came to eating pasta, I would lather it up in butter, salt and pepper and be in heaven. I wish I had known about rice noodles and egg noodles then, because they have instantly become my favorite.
Early the next morning, we headed out to do a segment on Fox 2 News in Detroit. Every time I've done T.V. appearances, they've been under a time crunch and everything is so precise and timed down to the last minute. So, Mark and I sound checked within our 2 minutes that we were given during commercial breaks and then played "What It Takes" live on air. Sometimes it gets a little scary singing a song with such range in the morning, but surprisingly enough under those circumstances both of us did well. Following the television appearance, we made several radio stops between Detroit, Flint and Lansing all of which went very well. WYCD was our first stop in Detroit and that was for the Dr. Don, Rachel & Grunwald show… They were great people and it was great fun. Very entertaining!
In Flint, we visited PD April Rose and MD Keith Allen at WFBE "The Bee" and were overtaken with their generosity in providing Chinese food for lunch. If there ever comes a point where my parents wanna trade me, I know that I will have a home with Steph from the station. I think she wanted to adopt me while I was there. Hahaha… Just kidding mom and dad, I love you. Then we made our way down the road to Lansing from Flint, and made a visit with Chris Tyler from WITL, at the Wittle White House. That's really what they call it. I've been there before and Chris has always made us feel welcome. He put us on air and we played a couple songs as well. We headed back to Detroit after that, and wolfed down some fantastic Sushi along with the best edamame you've ever tasted! I was really in the mood to use some fine vocabulary in this journal, but unfortunately I only made it through to the 6th grade and then hit the road running after that. Ha! Just kidding. Anyhow, the next day rolled around and we made a stop in at The Frank Beckmann show. This show has been around for like 75 years and I would have to say that it was one of the coolest interviewers I've ever had. The building that it took place in was historic in itself and I just enjoyed looking at the architecture inside the building. I look forward to seeing Frank again sometime soon.
From there, we rushed to the airport not knowing if we would make our flight because we were starting to push it time wise, but we did and all was good. We caught our flight to Kansas City where we met up with the band.
What a great day it was yesterday in Kansas City. We made our 1st appearance with our friends from The WOLF as part of my "What It Takes 2009" Soles 4 Souls club tour. It is certainly something you need to take part in to know the extent of how caring the charity is. It's amazing that a pair of shoes can make such a significant difference in someone's life. Just imagine you being the one living out on the street no food, same clothes, and a beat up pair of shoes that barely keep your bare feet from touching the ground. Or maybe you'd been through some rough times, and just needed a fresh start. Could you imagine what a brand new pair of shoes with thick soles on them could do to someone like that? Pretty much life changing I'd say, and that's their motto…or OUR motto now…"Changing the World, One pair of shoes at a time." There was a guy there yesterday that said that that was the first time he could remember a pair of shoes actually fitting him properly. I know personally if I had to walk around in shoes that didn't fit me, I'd be miserable and in pain. Please don't think guys for one minute that I'm accusing any of you for not being grateful and appreciative, but this is our chance as a community and as a country to make a noticeable difference. Last night's show in Kansas City at the "Infused Bar" revolved completely around Soles 4 Souls and trying to get people involved in helping out. As we did last night, and as we'll do at future shows coming up, we're going to be handing out numbered flip flops to all single people who come out to shows, and maybe with that numbered flip flop those single people can meet their "sole-mate" as well. It may sound cheesy, but strange things have happened and it's fun.
Shelley went up on stage last night at the gig and informed the audience a little more about Soles 4 Souls and also mentioned to everyone to put their name in a drawing to win a trip to Las Vegas, and then she followed that by bringing us up on stage with some DJ's from The WOLF. The winner from this show was Lynn Fredlund. We played a 90-minute set and just had a blast. Unfortunately after the show, we didn't have a ton of time because we had 800 miles ahead of us to get to our next location, so we ended up loading up the bus and then pretty much immediately heading out for Detroit, MI. Our bus driver Dave amazed us all by driving through the night and getting us here safely with absolutely no complaining about it what so ever. We've got a show here in Detroit tonight at "Coyote Joes" and again this is another show based around Soles 4 Souls. Hope to see some of you here tonight at the show. Take care of yourselves and God Bless!
ag)
Not that you guys care, but I have seriously gotten into egg and rice noodles to the point where I can't get enough. If my mom was here... she would be saying to me, "Adam, your going to turn into a gigantic noodle someday if you don't stop eating so much pasta" - ha-ha. Growing up, I was the type of kid that was fussy and would not eat much. When it came to eating pasta, I would lather it up in butter, salt and pepper and be in heaven. I wish I had known about rice noodles and egg noodles then, because they have instantly become my favorite.
Early the next morning, we headed out to do a segment on Fox 2 News in Detroit. Every time I've done T.V. appearances, they've been under a time crunch and everything is so precise and timed down to the last minute. So, Mark and I sound checked within our 2 minutes that we were given during commercial breaks and then played "What It Takes" live on air. Sometimes it gets a little scary singing a song with such range in the morning, but surprisingly enough under those circumstances both of us did well. Following the television appearance, we made several radio stops between Detroit, Flint and Lansing all of which went very well. WYCD was our first stop in Detroit and that was for the Dr. Don, Rachel & Grunwald show… They were great people and it was great fun. Very entertaining!
In Flint, we visited PD April Rose and MD Keith Allen at WFBE "The Bee" and were overtaken with their generosity in providing Chinese food for lunch. If there ever comes a point where my parents wanna trade me, I know that I will have a home with Steph from the station. I think she wanted to adopt me while I was there. Hahaha… Just kidding mom and dad, I love you. Then we made our way down the road to Lansing from Flint, and made a visit with Chris Tyler from WITL, at the Wittle White House. That's really what they call it. I've been there before and Chris has always made us feel welcome. He put us on air and we played a couple songs as well. We headed back to Detroit after that, and wolfed down some fantastic Sushi along with the best edamame you've ever tasted! I was really in the mood to use some fine vocabulary in this journal, but unfortunately I only made it through to the 6th grade and then hit the road running after that. Ha! Just kidding. Anyhow, the next day rolled around and we made a stop in at The Frank Beckmann show. This show has been around for like 75 years and I would have to say that it was one of the coolest interviewers I've ever had. The building that it took place in was historic in itself and I just enjoyed looking at the architecture inside the building. I look forward to seeing Frank again sometime soon.
From there, we rushed to the airport not knowing if we would make our flight because we were starting to push it time wise, but we did and all was good. We caught our flight to Kansas City where we met up with the band.
What a great day it was yesterday in Kansas City. We made our 1st appearance with our friends from The WOLF as part of my "What It Takes 2009" Soles 4 Souls club tour. It is certainly something you need to take part in to know the extent of how caring the charity is. It's amazing that a pair of shoes can make such a significant difference in someone's life. Just imagine you being the one living out on the street no food, same clothes, and a beat up pair of shoes that barely keep your bare feet from touching the ground. Or maybe you'd been through some rough times, and just needed a fresh start. Could you imagine what a brand new pair of shoes with thick soles on them could do to someone like that? Pretty much life changing I'd say, and that's their motto…or OUR motto now…"Changing the World, One pair of shoes at a time." There was a guy there yesterday that said that that was the first time he could remember a pair of shoes actually fitting him properly. I know personally if I had to walk around in shoes that didn't fit me, I'd be miserable and in pain. Please don't think guys for one minute that I'm accusing any of you for not being grateful and appreciative, but this is our chance as a community and as a country to make a noticeable difference. Last night's show in Kansas City at the "Infused Bar" revolved completely around Soles 4 Souls and trying to get people involved in helping out. As we did last night, and as we'll do at future shows coming up, we're going to be handing out numbered flip flops to all single people who come out to shows, and maybe with that numbered flip flop those single people can meet their "sole-mate" as well. It may sound cheesy, but strange things have happened and it's fun.
Shelley went up on stage last night at the gig and informed the audience a little more about Soles 4 Souls and also mentioned to everyone to put their name in a drawing to win a trip to Las Vegas, and then she followed that by bringing us up on stage with some DJ's from The WOLF. The winner from this show was Lynn Fredlund. We played a 90-minute set and just had a blast. Unfortunately after the show, we didn't have a ton of time because we had 800 miles ahead of us to get to our next location, so we ended up loading up the bus and then pretty much immediately heading out for Detroit, MI. Our bus driver Dave amazed us all by driving through the night and getting us here safely with absolutely no complaining about it what so ever. We've got a show here in Detroit tonight at "Coyote Joes" and again this is another show based around Soles 4 Souls. Hope to see some of you here tonight at the show. Take care of yourselves and God Bless!
ag)
Monday, February 9, 2009
2/8/09: Helping Out Soles4Souls In The Nice Weather
Hey everyone,
We arrived home early this morning. I did some laundry and packed for Detroit. Mark, Shelley, and myself leave for there tomorrow.
I had two great shows this weekend… One was at the Blind Horse Saloon in Greensville, SC. and the other one was at Coyote Joes in Charlotte, NC. The band and I just added 7 new songs to our set. Some are new songs that I’ve written and others are songs from legendary acts like Merle Haggard. I hope that y’all can make it out to a show soon and check it out.
Around 2 p.m., we all met up at our office on Music Row to sort and organize boxes upon boxes of shoes that will be given to people across the country as part of our involvement with Soles 4 Souls. It's really a great cause! It is so nice to see so many people on board wanting to make a difference and put a smile on people’s faces or change a life with a simple heartfelt gift through a pair of shoes.
Tomorrow, before we leave at 3 p.m. I get to write with my co-writing buddy Anthony Smith. Wish us luck!
Are you all loving this weather? Nashville got to be in the 70’s today, which is night and day from what it was last week. Not sure what the weather is like where you are, but hopefully it’s getting nicer. Anyhow, I’m going to call it a night now. I’ve got some left over Mellow Mushroom pizza so I think I am going to heat that up for dinner…. it’s really some awesome pizza. Have a great night everyone and I’ll be in touch with y’all soon. God Bless!
ag)
We arrived home early this morning. I did some laundry and packed for Detroit. Mark, Shelley, and myself leave for there tomorrow.
I had two great shows this weekend… One was at the Blind Horse Saloon in Greensville, SC. and the other one was at Coyote Joes in Charlotte, NC. The band and I just added 7 new songs to our set. Some are new songs that I’ve written and others are songs from legendary acts like Merle Haggard. I hope that y’all can make it out to a show soon and check it out.
Around 2 p.m., we all met up at our office on Music Row to sort and organize boxes upon boxes of shoes that will be given to people across the country as part of our involvement with Soles 4 Souls. It's really a great cause! It is so nice to see so many people on board wanting to make a difference and put a smile on people’s faces or change a life with a simple heartfelt gift through a pair of shoes.
Tomorrow, before we leave at 3 p.m. I get to write with my co-writing buddy Anthony Smith. Wish us luck!
Are you all loving this weather? Nashville got to be in the 70’s today, which is night and day from what it was last week. Not sure what the weather is like where you are, but hopefully it’s getting nicer. Anyhow, I’m going to call it a night now. I’ve got some left over Mellow Mushroom pizza so I think I am going to heat that up for dinner…. it’s really some awesome pizza. Have a great night everyone and I’ll be in touch with y’all soon. God Bless!
ag)
Friday, February 6, 2009
2/5/09: On The Way To Greenville!
Hey everyone, hope you're all doing well. Man, it has been bone-chilling cold the past 4 days here in Nashville. It's gotten down to around 15 degrees every night, OUCH… You'd think me being from the north I'd be used to the cold, but no- my blood must've thinned out.
As you can see, I am spreading my journals out a bit more these days. That way, I have more to write about and hopefully make things a little more interesting.
This week I haven't had a ton of stuff going on. Unfortunately, we've all been sick. My band, manager, and myself have all been battling whatever it is that's floating around in the air. Fortunately, most of us have conquered it and are feeling much better.
I've had a fairly productive week so far. The band and I have been cutting tracks and let me tell you, I am pumped! I can't wait for everyone to hear it. The sound of the new stuff that I'm writing is really exciting. When you write songs, you try to imagine what they are going to evolve into and what they will sound like within the walls of a studio. To hear your song be brought to life by all the talented musicians playing their hearts out in the recording booths is very special. Pretty much any song that I write or co-write becomes a child to me. Of course I've written some not so good ones along the way, but that's expected. For the most part, I couldn't be more proud.
I'm not sure if y'all are up on cell phones or not, but I just got the new G1 phone and I am LOVING IT. I haven't quite figured out this feature, but evidently the G1 has a feature that you can set up that will tell you how far your phone falls. Why you would deliberately want to drop your phone is beyond me, but it will actually tell you how far it fell. It also has this bar code feature where you can scan bar codes on products and compare prices that way. Is that not cool or what? I'm just naming a few features. Anyhow, I hope the weather looks up for us all and gets a little warmer. It's this type of weather that really makes you appreciate hot chocolate. The band and I head out on the bus at midnight tonight for Greenville, SC. We've got a show there tomorrow evening.
Hope to see some of you there! Have a great evening everyone, and like I said… stay warm and I will talk to y'all soon! God Bless!
ag)
As you can see, I am spreading my journals out a bit more these days. That way, I have more to write about and hopefully make things a little more interesting.
This week I haven't had a ton of stuff going on. Unfortunately, we've all been sick. My band, manager, and myself have all been battling whatever it is that's floating around in the air. Fortunately, most of us have conquered it and are feeling much better.
I've had a fairly productive week so far. The band and I have been cutting tracks and let me tell you, I am pumped! I can't wait for everyone to hear it. The sound of the new stuff that I'm writing is really exciting. When you write songs, you try to imagine what they are going to evolve into and what they will sound like within the walls of a studio. To hear your song be brought to life by all the talented musicians playing their hearts out in the recording booths is very special. Pretty much any song that I write or co-write becomes a child to me. Of course I've written some not so good ones along the way, but that's expected. For the most part, I couldn't be more proud.
I'm not sure if y'all are up on cell phones or not, but I just got the new G1 phone and I am LOVING IT. I haven't quite figured out this feature, but evidently the G1 has a feature that you can set up that will tell you how far your phone falls. Why you would deliberately want to drop your phone is beyond me, but it will actually tell you how far it fell. It also has this bar code feature where you can scan bar codes on products and compare prices that way. Is that not cool or what? I'm just naming a few features. Anyhow, I hope the weather looks up for us all and gets a little warmer. It's this type of weather that really makes you appreciate hot chocolate. The band and I head out on the bus at midnight tonight for Greenville, SC. We've got a show there tomorrow evening.
Hope to see some of you there! Have a great evening everyone, and like I said… stay warm and I will talk to y'all soon! God Bless!
ag)
Sunday, February 1, 2009
2/1/09: Enjoy The Superbowl!!!
Y'all enjoy last night's Super Bowl? I felt the anticipation and excitement in the air all day yesterday. I have friends and fans in both Phoenix and Pittsburgh, so I wasn't cheering for any particular team. I just say, "may the best team win." I was talking to a guy at the airport in Milwaukee yesterday who said he was going to the Super Bowl. I bet that would be pretty awesome to be in the audience with the crowd cheering and getting into the game. I don't know about all of you, but personally one of my favorite parts of the Super Bowl is the half-time show and the funny commercials. I'm sure there was some craziness in the City of Nashville tonight as well as every other city in the country, so I hope y'all had a great time and chowed down on some great food and enjoyed the game! I'll be talking to you soon. God Bless!
ag)
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
1/28/09: Staying Busy In Nashville
Hello everyone, I'm hoping and praying that y'all had a safe productive week and that everything is going well. For the most part, I've been home in Nashville and had a few writing appointments booked and some phone interviews to do. The band and I are working up some new songs for our show, so between yesterday and today we've had several hours of rehearsals. We are fully aware and respect the fact that when you come out to our shows you want to hear stuff that you're more familiar with, so thats what inspired our decision to learn more cover songs. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet and be interviewed by Jeff Cook, formerly of the group Alabama. He was a cool guy and after we got done talking he asked if I'd like to hear some of the new songs he had been working on for his new album. It sounded great! In some of the songs, I actually heard a touch of the Alabama sound in the recording. Tomorrow morning, Mark, Shelley and I are catching a flight to Milwaukee. We will be there all day tomorrow and return home Saturday. Yes, this is a short trip, but we hope it will be very productive. Have a great night everyone and Ill talk to you soon. God Bless!
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Monday, January 26, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: "Crazy Days" Selected for iTunes Free "Single of the Week"
(Nashville, TN - Jan. 26, 2009) iTunes has chosen Big Machine/NSA/Midas Records country artist Adam Gregory's "Crazy Days" as their "Single of the Week" for Jan. 27 - Feb. 2.
"Crazy Days" was Gregory's debut U.S. single and a Top 30 hit. Co-written with Lee Brice, Kyle Jacobs and Joe Leathers, the song will be made available for free download at the online iTunes store tomorrow.
Gregory's latest single, "What It Takes," continues its current climb up the charts, breaking into the Top 40 this week. The video is seeing significant airplay on CMT Pure, GACTV and Music Choice.
Recently named a Clear Channel Online Artist to Watch, Gregory is out on the road through the end of March on his "What It Takes 2009" tour, playing club show dates and special charity events in conjunction with Nashville-based nonprofit organization Soles4Souls.
For more information and tour dates, visit www.adamgregory.com or www.soles4souls.org.
"Crazy Days" was Gregory's debut U.S. single and a Top 30 hit. Co-written with Lee Brice, Kyle Jacobs and Joe Leathers, the song will be made available for free download at the online iTunes store tomorrow.
Gregory's latest single, "What It Takes," continues its current climb up the charts, breaking into the Top 40 this week. The video is seeing significant airplay on CMT Pure, GACTV and Music Choice.
Recently named a Clear Channel Online Artist to Watch, Gregory is out on the road through the end of March on his "What It Takes 2009" tour, playing club show dates and special charity events in conjunction with Nashville-based nonprofit organization Soles4Souls.
For more information and tour dates, visit www.adamgregory.com or www.soles4souls.org.
1/26/09: Week Wrap-Up
Hey everyone,
Just to recap on the week so far... it has been a busy one, as I'm sure it has been for all of you as well.
We left on the morning of the 21st for Evansville, Indiana. We had a show that evening opening up for Jamey Johnson at the Woody's bar. The show was sold out with wall-to-wall people. As we've come to expect at this point in the journey, there is not going to be a lot of people that are familiar with my music unless they have heard me on the radio, so the 45 to 75 minutes were given each and every night is an opportunity for us to hopefully win over some more fans.
So far, I'd have to say its been going very well and the people at our shows have had nothing but good comments for the band and myself. I know there is probably a lot of you that haven't had the chance to see one of our shows yet, but hopefully our tour dates will bring us your way. The next place that our bus took us was to Lexington, KY where we played a show at Cadillac Ranch. We had an awesome show there. You know Lexington was the first stop I made months and months ago on my radio tour. Its gone by so fast and Its hard to imagine all that I've been able to accomplish since then. It was good to see my friend Mark Grantin from the radio station. When I passed through there that first day of the radio tour and played in the board room, Mark had become an instant supporter towards my music and shortly there after added my first single "Crazy Days." Since then, he has been on board and very supportive... so thank you Mark!
Getting back to the day of the show... That evening, Mark, myself, and some of my team went to dinner at one of these restaurants where they cook the food in front of you. I'm never disappointed with the food, it's always great. Anyways while we were there we shared the table with a lady and her two daughters, one of which was celebrating her tenth birthday. Somehow, we started talking about cell phones and Emily the birthday girl said, I'm going to be getting a cell phone soon, and in an innocent manner she added that her phone is going to be a nicer phone than both her mom and dad's phone combined. Jeff Davis, my record label rep and one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet, pulled out his iPhone and started showing it off to all three of them. You could see that they were very intrigued by the phone.
After paying the bill, we asked Mary Beth (the girl's mom) if they'd be interested in having a tour of our bus. They were shocked that we had even asked. They said sure and little Emily said this is the best birthday gift ever. This family is big country music fans and had heard my songs on the radio, so this was extra special for both them. They followed us back to the venue where the bus was parked out back and we gave them the grand tour of the inside of the bus. All three of them were like, WOW, this is incredible! We sat and chatted for a while and then I pulled out my guitar and played them a couple songs. First I played "What It Takes" which Emily was familiar with and then I followed it up with "Crazy Days" and she sang along to both. I loved our visit with them and hopefully I will get to see them all at future shows.
Our next stop took us to Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm sure most of you don’t want to even hear the word snow or how cold it was, I thought I would mention it anyways. There was snow there and it was a little on the nippy side. I'd say my blood has kind of thickened since I had just been home at Christmas because the cold didn't really bother me at all. This was our second show with Jamey Johnson. A band called Union Guns was the first act up… then myself and then Jamey closed the evening. There were probably from what I saw and from what I was told 900 people in the club. They were a rowdy crowd that came to have a good time. I met up with the radio DJs there and we chatted for a few minutes before my meet and greet. We played a 45-minute set and the audience was really into what we were doing. Our cover tunes of Justin Timberlake and Coldplay always seem to cause a stir of interest and in most cases are the topics of conversation from the people that come up to meet me afterwards.
After the show, and after we got done loading up all the gear we hit the road running for Nashville. There were a few of us including myself that stayed up till 4 in the morning on the bus ride back just blaring music through the speakers. When I get in that music-playing mode, I play everything from Toto to Journey and some Boston. I also played some of the new songs that I've been working on for the band. Music for me just soothes the soul. Isn't it amazing how it does that. We arrived back into Nashville this morning at around 10 a.m. and I've had the rest of the day to myself to get some things done including typing this journal up for y'all. I hope your all having a great night and thank you for the continued support. God Bless!
ag)
Just to recap on the week so far... it has been a busy one, as I'm sure it has been for all of you as well.
We left on the morning of the 21st for Evansville, Indiana. We had a show that evening opening up for Jamey Johnson at the Woody's bar. The show was sold out with wall-to-wall people. As we've come to expect at this point in the journey, there is not going to be a lot of people that are familiar with my music unless they have heard me on the radio, so the 45 to 75 minutes were given each and every night is an opportunity for us to hopefully win over some more fans.
So far, I'd have to say its been going very well and the people at our shows have had nothing but good comments for the band and myself. I know there is probably a lot of you that haven't had the chance to see one of our shows yet, but hopefully our tour dates will bring us your way. The next place that our bus took us was to Lexington, KY where we played a show at Cadillac Ranch. We had an awesome show there. You know Lexington was the first stop I made months and months ago on my radio tour. Its gone by so fast and Its hard to imagine all that I've been able to accomplish since then. It was good to see my friend Mark Grantin from the radio station. When I passed through there that first day of the radio tour and played in the board room, Mark had become an instant supporter towards my music and shortly there after added my first single "Crazy Days." Since then, he has been on board and very supportive... so thank you Mark!
Getting back to the day of the show... That evening, Mark, myself, and some of my team went to dinner at one of these restaurants where they cook the food in front of you. I'm never disappointed with the food, it's always great. Anyways while we were there we shared the table with a lady and her two daughters, one of which was celebrating her tenth birthday. Somehow, we started talking about cell phones and Emily the birthday girl said, I'm going to be getting a cell phone soon, and in an innocent manner she added that her phone is going to be a nicer phone than both her mom and dad's phone combined. Jeff Davis, my record label rep and one of the nicest dudes you'll ever meet, pulled out his iPhone and started showing it off to all three of them. You could see that they were very intrigued by the phone.
After paying the bill, we asked Mary Beth (the girl's mom) if they'd be interested in having a tour of our bus. They were shocked that we had even asked. They said sure and little Emily said this is the best birthday gift ever. This family is big country music fans and had heard my songs on the radio, so this was extra special for both them. They followed us back to the venue where the bus was parked out back and we gave them the grand tour of the inside of the bus. All three of them were like, WOW, this is incredible! We sat and chatted for a while and then I pulled out my guitar and played them a couple songs. First I played "What It Takes" which Emily was familiar with and then I followed it up with "Crazy Days" and she sang along to both. I loved our visit with them and hopefully I will get to see them all at future shows.
Our next stop took us to Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm sure most of you don’t want to even hear the word snow or how cold it was, I thought I would mention it anyways. There was snow there and it was a little on the nippy side. I'd say my blood has kind of thickened since I had just been home at Christmas because the cold didn't really bother me at all. This was our second show with Jamey Johnson. A band called Union Guns was the first act up… then myself and then Jamey closed the evening. There were probably from what I saw and from what I was told 900 people in the club. They were a rowdy crowd that came to have a good time. I met up with the radio DJs there and we chatted for a few minutes before my meet and greet. We played a 45-minute set and the audience was really into what we were doing. Our cover tunes of Justin Timberlake and Coldplay always seem to cause a stir of interest and in most cases are the topics of conversation from the people that come up to meet me afterwards.
After the show, and after we got done loading up all the gear we hit the road running for Nashville. There were a few of us including myself that stayed up till 4 in the morning on the bus ride back just blaring music through the speakers. When I get in that music-playing mode, I play everything from Toto to Journey and some Boston. I also played some of the new songs that I've been working on for the band. Music for me just soothes the soul. Isn't it amazing how it does that. We arrived back into Nashville this morning at around 10 a.m. and I've had the rest of the day to myself to get some things done including typing this journal up for y'all. I hope your all having a great night and thank you for the continued support. God Bless!
ag)
Thursday, January 22, 2009
1/22/09: Nashville Lifestyles Show and Band Back On The Road!
Hey everyone, I hope you've all had a great past few days. I have had a bit of downtime recently, except for last night. I did a show at the Tin Roof in Nashville. There were several other artists performing including Luke Bryan, Ashton Shepherd, Trent Tomlinson, and a new brother act out of South Carolina called the Carter Twins. The show was a charity event put on by Nashville Lifestyle magazine. My 2 guitar players Mark and Robin accompanied me. We had a great time playing to a sold out show.
My band arrived back in Nashville on the 19th after being back home in Canada since Dec. 21. We're all rested up and anxious to get back out on the road and see all our friends and fans, as well as make some new ones. We all had the same opinion in thinking that the time just flew by. I have been told throughout my life by people that the older you get that the faster time seems to go by, and they weren't kidding. I can't seem to hold on to time long enough and I'm sure you all feel the same way.
I bet all of you tuned into the inauguration yesterday. It looked pretty cool, huh? I zoned into the crowd and seeing that many people crowded into one area is a pretty amazing site. I heard there were 2 million people in attendance. I can't even imagine what that would look like from a stage. Hey, it is nice to dream right? Maybe someday I'll break the record and play in front of that many people. That would be cool. The band and I head out bright and early tomorrow morning on the bus for Evansville, Indiana where we have a sold-out show tomorrow night with Jamey Johnson. By the way, Jamey's single "In Color" is nominated for about 3 Grammy's... We wish him the best with that. I hope you're all having a great week so far and maybe I'll see some of you out at the show tomorrow night or future shows coming up! Goodnight and God Bless!
ag)
My band arrived back in Nashville on the 19th after being back home in Canada since Dec. 21. We're all rested up and anxious to get back out on the road and see all our friends and fans, as well as make some new ones. We all had the same opinion in thinking that the time just flew by. I have been told throughout my life by people that the older you get that the faster time seems to go by, and they weren't kidding. I can't seem to hold on to time long enough and I'm sure you all feel the same way.
I bet all of you tuned into the inauguration yesterday. It looked pretty cool, huh? I zoned into the crowd and seeing that many people crowded into one area is a pretty amazing site. I heard there were 2 million people in attendance. I can't even imagine what that would look like from a stage. Hey, it is nice to dream right? Maybe someday I'll break the record and play in front of that many people. That would be cool. The band and I head out bright and early tomorrow morning on the bus for Evansville, Indiana where we have a sold-out show tomorrow night with Jamey Johnson. By the way, Jamey's single "In Color" is nominated for about 3 Grammy's... We wish him the best with that. I hope you're all having a great week so far and maybe I'll see some of you out at the show tomorrow night or future shows coming up! Goodnight and God Bless!
ag)
Sunday, January 18, 2009
1/18/09: St. Jude Trip
Hey everyone,
What an amazing past couple days it has been. I just got back from Memphis earlier today where I was visiting the St. Jude Hospital. You would think that the atmosphere at St. Jude would be hard to take, but it was the total opposite... In fact, it was a complete place of HOPE. The amazing thing about St. Jude is that they are moving closer and closer everyday towards cures for cancer. There are scientist who work specifically on cell research to scope out not only the cancer attacks, but their equipment allows them to get an eyes view inside the cells to see exactly what it is that's going on.
St. Jude is run strictly on donations and there is no cost to the the patients or their families, it's all covered by the donations. As a matter of fact, it cost 1.4 million dollars a day to run the hospital... so calculate that over a years time. You can just imagine the tons of donations being made. There are so many good people in the world who are willing to help out which is totally awesome!! A huge part of these donations of course goes towards cancer research and finding cures. Some cancer's have higher recovery rates, but unfortunately from what we learned there are other cancers that can only be treated for a certain period of time, but the cure for stopping them completely hasn't been pin pointed yet. I have no doubt that those hard working researchers of the St. Jude Hospital will find the connections and cures their looking for. Another interesting thing I found out is that the hospital is in the loop of new discoveries made everyday by the researchers. As a matter of fact, a newsletter goes around the hospital every 17 hours.
There were quite a few touching moments during the visit and just to name a few... there was a wall in which had a row of poems lettered from A to Z that were written by the patients receiving treatments for their cancer. These poems and letters were beautiful. It really put into perspective how amazing these kids really are. I already knew that they were amazing little angels, but after reading what they had to say, and a lot of it was to do with HEAVEN and GOD, oh man what can I say it filled my heart with LOVE. We were all given tour guides to take us around the hospital and our guide especially did an amazing job and helped make our visit very memorable.
We stopped at one point and she began telling us a story of a little boy she had met and got to know quite well in the hospital. This little boy was like any other normal kid and was into basketball. He was playing basketball one day when he complained of a pain in his hip and had told his parents about it. They took him in to get checked, and they found out that the pain in his hip was a rare kind of cancer. This type of cancer had a 20% survival rate. Our guide told us that St. Jude took him under their wing and were able to get rid of the tumor, but this was the type of cancer that you could only get rid of for a short period of time and that it would eventually reappear somewhere else in the body. That's exactly what it did on this little guy. She said he was a real fighter though and fought it for 4 years until he passed away. To finish this story off though and the part that probably got me the most, was when she told us how before he died he wanted a CD made up for his mom of all there favorite seasonal songs so that she could play them back and think of him. I tell you I pretty much lost it at that point and my eyes filled up with tears. Here's a boy that's just been told his battle has come to an end and all he was worried about was taking care of his mom. When he passed away, he had no signs of cancer left in his body which was an absolute miracle, but what took him was the fact that his internal organs had been worked so hard from fighting off the cancer that they just decided to shut down all together. That little guy was and is a true example to all of us and I will never forget being told that story.
From there we went to a room where all the artists gathered together. We signed autographs to some of the patients and there families. Even there I was amazed by another incident. This young guy and his mom came up and got my autograph and we started talking. He had mentioned to me that he's conquered cancer and recovered from it and that St, Jude continually checks up on him. His mom was standing there and out of relief said that she's so thankful to St. Jude for everything they've done for her son and she started to cry as she completed her sentence. Her son who had the cancer put his arms around her to comfort her and tell her, mom everything is gonna be alright. I'm like WOW what a strong little guy. Well, I'm happy that I could share some of my memories with you of St. Jude and I hope that if you aren't already that you'll all become St. Jude supporters in the future. Thank you everyone and have a great evening. God Bless!
ag)
What an amazing past couple days it has been. I just got back from Memphis earlier today where I was visiting the St. Jude Hospital. You would think that the atmosphere at St. Jude would be hard to take, but it was the total opposite... In fact, it was a complete place of HOPE. The amazing thing about St. Jude is that they are moving closer and closer everyday towards cures for cancer. There are scientist who work specifically on cell research to scope out not only the cancer attacks, but their equipment allows them to get an eyes view inside the cells to see exactly what it is that's going on.
St. Jude is run strictly on donations and there is no cost to the the patients or their families, it's all covered by the donations. As a matter of fact, it cost 1.4 million dollars a day to run the hospital... so calculate that over a years time. You can just imagine the tons of donations being made. There are so many good people in the world who are willing to help out which is totally awesome!! A huge part of these donations of course goes towards cancer research and finding cures. Some cancer's have higher recovery rates, but unfortunately from what we learned there are other cancers that can only be treated for a certain period of time, but the cure for stopping them completely hasn't been pin pointed yet. I have no doubt that those hard working researchers of the St. Jude Hospital will find the connections and cures their looking for. Another interesting thing I found out is that the hospital is in the loop of new discoveries made everyday by the researchers. As a matter of fact, a newsletter goes around the hospital every 17 hours.
There were quite a few touching moments during the visit and just to name a few... there was a wall in which had a row of poems lettered from A to Z that were written by the patients receiving treatments for their cancer. These poems and letters were beautiful. It really put into perspective how amazing these kids really are. I already knew that they were amazing little angels, but after reading what they had to say, and a lot of it was to do with HEAVEN and GOD, oh man what can I say it filled my heart with LOVE. We were all given tour guides to take us around the hospital and our guide especially did an amazing job and helped make our visit very memorable.
We stopped at one point and she began telling us a story of a little boy she had met and got to know quite well in the hospital. This little boy was like any other normal kid and was into basketball. He was playing basketball one day when he complained of a pain in his hip and had told his parents about it. They took him in to get checked, and they found out that the pain in his hip was a rare kind of cancer. This type of cancer had a 20% survival rate. Our guide told us that St. Jude took him under their wing and were able to get rid of the tumor, but this was the type of cancer that you could only get rid of for a short period of time and that it would eventually reappear somewhere else in the body. That's exactly what it did on this little guy. She said he was a real fighter though and fought it for 4 years until he passed away. To finish this story off though and the part that probably got me the most, was when she told us how before he died he wanted a CD made up for his mom of all there favorite seasonal songs so that she could play them back and think of him. I tell you I pretty much lost it at that point and my eyes filled up with tears. Here's a boy that's just been told his battle has come to an end and all he was worried about was taking care of his mom. When he passed away, he had no signs of cancer left in his body which was an absolute miracle, but what took him was the fact that his internal organs had been worked so hard from fighting off the cancer that they just decided to shut down all together. That little guy was and is a true example to all of us and I will never forget being told that story.
From there we went to a room where all the artists gathered together. We signed autographs to some of the patients and there families. Even there I was amazed by another incident. This young guy and his mom came up and got my autograph and we started talking. He had mentioned to me that he's conquered cancer and recovered from it and that St, Jude continually checks up on him. His mom was standing there and out of relief said that she's so thankful to St. Jude for everything they've done for her son and she started to cry as she completed her sentence. Her son who had the cancer put his arms around her to comfort her and tell her, mom everything is gonna be alright. I'm like WOW what a strong little guy. Well, I'm happy that I could share some of my memories with you of St. Jude and I hope that if you aren't already that you'll all become St. Jude supporters in the future. Thank you everyone and have a great evening. God Bless!
ag)
Thursday, January 15, 2009
1/14/09: At A Writers Retreat
Hey everyone!
I just had the most relaxing, peaceful time at my buddy Joe Leathers get away flat in Rosemary Beach, Florida. It is not known by a lot of people, but it is a little piece of paradise that’s for sure. We started writing on the 11th. Almost immediately... between the minds of Lee Brice, Kyle Jacobs, Joe Leathers and myself, we knocked out a few songs the first day. And that’s not to mention the song that all of us wrote on the bus drive down. The second day we were there, we all got up at around 9 a.m. There was a gym up the street, so most of us hit that up for a little workout and then headed back home to write. When we got back, Lee had already been working up a guitar arrangement for another song. We started into that and before we knew it, another song was written, pretty cool huh ?
It totally amazes me to watch songs come together from a thought to a song.. it’s really a beautiful thing and I feel blessed to be able to do it! I really wanted to see more of the little town of Rosemary and the beach, so when we got done writing the song we all hopped on some bikes and rode through the town and went to the beach. The town was pretty bare because it was out of season. From what I’ve heard about France and from what Kyle told me, it’s like a little piece of France with the cobblestone roads and the European architechure of the buildings. I was told they have a rule there that every building or home must be constructed by one of five builders so that they keep a level of sameness within the town. I guess they don’t want some unknown builder to come into the town and change things up, which is understandable.
When we went down to the beach, not only were we pretty much the only ones on the beach, but the sand was so white and the water so clean and clear. It is probably one of the nicest beaches for sure, that I’ve seen!! Between the time we got back to later that evening, we had written a few more songs. We certainly were on a roll. I guess being in such a nice place is inspiring in itself.
It was cool because there was a main house where Lee, Kyle and Joe slept and above the garage was kind of a guest pad and that’s where I stayed. It had it’s own kitchen and living room, a nice big TV and a big comfortable bed. There was also a nice sized swimming pool in the backyard which was heated, so it was pretty close to being like a hot tub. We left on the bus out of Rosemary the morning of the 14th at 4 a.m. and drove through the night. We arrived back to Nashville early that evening on the 14th. So I had the evening to chill and wrap my head around all that we had accomplished in such a short time. It was very impressive to me. Anyways, I hope you’ve all been doing well and I will talk to y’all soon. God Bless!
ag)
1/14/09: Management Blog By Lawrence Mathis
While Adam was writing hit songs..... we went fishing.
So last week, Adam and I went to Rosemary Beach to Joe Leathers house for a writing retreat.
We are already working on songs for our second album. Adam has been blessed to be amongst some great friends and writers over the past two years.
While Adam was busy working, my dad, Drew Alexander, David Whitted (our new bus driver) and myself all went fishing and had a blast. Here is a pic of the one's we kept. Don't tell Adam though because he thinks we were in a meeting....
Here's the picture.... http://www.adamgregory.com/images/gallery/managementfishingtrip.jpg
Here's the picture.... http://www.adamgregory.com/images/gallery/managementfishingtrip.jpg
-Lawrence Mathis
1/8/09: Soles4Souls
Hey Everyone,
My first Soles 4 Souls event was an amazing success!! It took place in Nashville and we made three stops, where at all three stops we gave out a pile of shoes to people that needed them and appreciated them very much. For me, it really puts things into perspective. Sometimes we take things for granted when there are so many people out there who would just give anything for a pair of shoes. When I was handing out shoes you could’ve sworn that I was handing them a million dollars. To see there faces light up with huge smiles the way they did makes everything that Soles 4 Souls is doing worth it!! I serenaded the folks at all three stops and they all appreciated the entertainment. It was just a little extra something I thought I could offer to them. Memorable moments to me especially was when we went to the school to hand out shoes to the young kids. This wasn’t just any school, no, this was a school that catered to children from all around the world who don’t necessarily speak a lick of English, but are learning the basics to speaking English and furthering themselves in the United States. These students were very bright and they surprised us all by entertaining us with songs they had practiced up for us! And they all did a great job! Another moment I’d say that sticks out in my mind would be when we made the stop at the Womens safe house. These women are in there for a number of reasons but all for the common goal of becoming independent again. You know, abuse just doesn’t fly with me and I am so greatful that I was raised by parents who taught me the true values of life and how to treat people with respect, especially to have respect for a lady. Well I have a number of Soles 4 Souls events coming up and I can’t wait to make more memories along this journey. I will update you all as I do them and fill you in with all that happens. God Bless!
ag)
My first Soles 4 Souls event was an amazing success!! It took place in Nashville and we made three stops, where at all three stops we gave out a pile of shoes to people that needed them and appreciated them very much. For me, it really puts things into perspective. Sometimes we take things for granted when there are so many people out there who would just give anything for a pair of shoes. When I was handing out shoes you could’ve sworn that I was handing them a million dollars. To see there faces light up with huge smiles the way they did makes everything that Soles 4 Souls is doing worth it!! I serenaded the folks at all three stops and they all appreciated the entertainment. It was just a little extra something I thought I could offer to them. Memorable moments to me especially was when we went to the school to hand out shoes to the young kids. This wasn’t just any school, no, this was a school that catered to children from all around the world who don’t necessarily speak a lick of English, but are learning the basics to speaking English and furthering themselves in the United States. These students were very bright and they surprised us all by entertaining us with songs they had practiced up for us! And they all did a great job! Another moment I’d say that sticks out in my mind would be when we made the stop at the Womens safe house. These women are in there for a number of reasons but all for the common goal of becoming independent again. You know, abuse just doesn’t fly with me and I am so greatful that I was raised by parents who taught me the true values of life and how to treat people with respect, especially to have respect for a lady. Well I have a number of Soles 4 Souls events coming up and I can’t wait to make more memories along this journey. I will update you all as I do them and fill you in with all that happens. God Bless!
ag)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
1/6/09: Great Seeing My Family Over The Holidays
Hello everyone,
Hope you are all doing well. I had a great visit at home with my family and I wouldn't have traded it for the world. It wasn't so much that we did a lot of things, it was just the hang out time that made it so enjoyable and lets face it, there is nothing like mom's home cooked meals... mmm... I love you mom! We managed to make time to go to the famous West Edmonton Mall a few times while I was home.. They say its the biggest mall in the world, but for me having grown up 10 minutes from the mall itself, I'm used to seeing it, but its still pretty neat to see, thats for sure!
I flew back home this morning through Baltimore. I spent the evening and part of today there . I left at around 5:35 p.m. Baltimore time and arrived just over an hour ago here in Nashville. The rest of the evening is off for me now and tomorrow morning. Shelley will be picking my manager Lawrence and I up in front of the loft and we have three events planned out to do for Soles4Souls. This is a charitable organization which provides shoes to people in need of them. Such a great cause to be part of and I am so looking forward to donating my time to helping out! Anybody that wants to find out more about Soles4Souls, be sure to visit www.adamgregory.com and there is a link right there on my website explaining all about it. Anyhow, thats about all on my end... but things are about to pick up again for me after the holidays here, so I will have a lot to tell you about in future journals.. Thank you guys and goodnight. God Bless!
ag)
Hope you are all doing well. I had a great visit at home with my family and I wouldn't have traded it for the world. It wasn't so much that we did a lot of things, it was just the hang out time that made it so enjoyable and lets face it, there is nothing like mom's home cooked meals... mmm... I love you mom! We managed to make time to go to the famous West Edmonton Mall a few times while I was home.. They say its the biggest mall in the world, but for me having grown up 10 minutes from the mall itself, I'm used to seeing it, but its still pretty neat to see, thats for sure!
I flew back home this morning through Baltimore. I spent the evening and part of today there . I left at around 5:35 p.m. Baltimore time and arrived just over an hour ago here in Nashville. The rest of the evening is off for me now and tomorrow morning. Shelley will be picking my manager Lawrence and I up in front of the loft and we have three events planned out to do for Soles4Souls. This is a charitable organization which provides shoes to people in need of them. Such a great cause to be part of and I am so looking forward to donating my time to helping out! Anybody that wants to find out more about Soles4Souls, be sure to visit www.adamgregory.com and there is a link right there on my website explaining all about it. Anyhow, thats about all on my end... but things are about to pick up again for me after the holidays here, so I will have a lot to tell you about in future journals.. Thank you guys and goodnight. God Bless!
ag)
Monday, January 5, 2009
Soles4Souls Partners With Adam
(Nashville, TN - Jan. 5, 2009) Nashville-based charity Soles4Souls has partnered with Big Machine/NSA/Midas recording artist Adam Gregory to raise money and provide shoes for needy individuals around the world during Gregory's "What It Takes 2009" club tour.
"We are very excited about this campaign between Soles4Souls and rising music star Adam Gregory," said Wayne Elsey, Founder and CEO of Soles4Souls. "Even though he's only 23 years old, he is an amazing talent and also demonstrates his deep commitment to charitable causes and giving back to his fans. We are extremely proud to count him as a friend."
The ten-week tour includes dates in 25 different cities, beginning Jan. 19 and running through March 31, 2009. Gregory will partner with a radio station in each market to provide a unique concert event and singles mixer that targets local listeners.
Upon entry to the event, fans will be provided an opportunity to donate a new or gently worn pair of shoes or make a donation to the Soles4Souls organization. Individuals will then receive a numbered flip-flop and attempt to locate their "sole" mate with the other matching shoe. The evening concludes with a grand prize giveaway and full band performance by Gregory. Proceeds from each night's event will be donated to Soles4Souls.
"I'm really looking forward to these shows because I feel like we can make a difference in people's lives," said Gregory. It's not just me performing for an audience, it's all of us working together for a bigger cause. I can't wait to get started."
Gregory will kick off the partnership on Jan. 8 by delivering shoes to local Nashville shelters as part of the "Takin' It To The Streets" shoe drive. He will perform at the "Livin' The Music" benefit concert for Soles4Souls at 3rd and Lindsley later that night.
Soles4Souls has launched a campaign website (www.whatittakes2009.com) where fans and radio stations can track donations and find exclusive blogs and video features from Gregory during the tour.
A complete list of dates and markets for the "What It Takes 2009" tour are currently being finalized, but Phoenix, Kansas City and Milwaukee are already confirmed.
The Soles4Souls agreement follows Gregory's promotional tour in 2008, in which the rising star partnered with leading mobile carrier Cricket Communications, Inc.
About Soles4Souls:
Nashville-based Soles4SoulsTM facilitates the donations of both new and used shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Soles4Souls has distributed more than 3.9 million pairs (currently donating one pair every 19 seconds) to people in over 70 countries, including Honduras, Uganda, Romania, and the United States. The charity has been featured recently in Runner's World and the Green Guide by National Geographic. It has also appeared on CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS, and hundreds of regional outlets around North America. Soles4Souls is a 501(c)(3) recognized by the IRS; donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. Visit www.giveshoes.org for more information.
About Adam Gregory:
Twenty-three-year-old Big Machine/NSA/Midas recording artist Adam Gregory is a native of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. After signing his first record deal with Sony Music Canada at age 13, he scored several Top Ten hits and Gold records in his native country before permanently relocating to Nashville in 2007. Gregory recently concluded an eight-month promotional radio tour and appeared on the Grand Ole Opry three times this past year.
The rising star sped up the U.S. charts in the summer of 2008 with his first stateside single, "Crazy Days," which broke into the Top 30. Gregory released his follow-up single, "What It Takes," in November. His debut album is scheduled for release in both the U.S. and Canada in early 2009.
"We are very excited about this campaign between Soles4Souls and rising music star Adam Gregory," said Wayne Elsey, Founder and CEO of Soles4Souls. "Even though he's only 23 years old, he is an amazing talent and also demonstrates his deep commitment to charitable causes and giving back to his fans. We are extremely proud to count him as a friend."
The ten-week tour includes dates in 25 different cities, beginning Jan. 19 and running through March 31, 2009. Gregory will partner with a radio station in each market to provide a unique concert event and singles mixer that targets local listeners.
Upon entry to the event, fans will be provided an opportunity to donate a new or gently worn pair of shoes or make a donation to the Soles4Souls organization. Individuals will then receive a numbered flip-flop and attempt to locate their "sole" mate with the other matching shoe. The evening concludes with a grand prize giveaway and full band performance by Gregory. Proceeds from each night's event will be donated to Soles4Souls.
"I'm really looking forward to these shows because I feel like we can make a difference in people's lives," said Gregory. It's not just me performing for an audience, it's all of us working together for a bigger cause. I can't wait to get started."
Gregory will kick off the partnership on Jan. 8 by delivering shoes to local Nashville shelters as part of the "Takin' It To The Streets" shoe drive. He will perform at the "Livin' The Music" benefit concert for Soles4Souls at 3rd and Lindsley later that night.
Soles4Souls has launched a campaign website (www.whatittakes2009.com) where fans and radio stations can track donations and find exclusive blogs and video features from Gregory during the tour.
A complete list of dates and markets for the "What It Takes 2009" tour are currently being finalized, but Phoenix, Kansas City and Milwaukee are already confirmed.
The Soles4Souls agreement follows Gregory's promotional tour in 2008, in which the rising star partnered with leading mobile carrier Cricket Communications, Inc.
About Soles4Souls:
Nashville-based Soles4SoulsTM facilitates the donations of both new and used shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Soles4Souls has distributed more than 3.9 million pairs (currently donating one pair every 19 seconds) to people in over 70 countries, including Honduras, Uganda, Romania, and the United States. The charity has been featured recently in Runner's World and the Green Guide by National Geographic. It has also appeared on CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS, and hundreds of regional outlets around North America. Soles4Souls is a 501(c)(3) recognized by the IRS; donating parties are eligible for tax advantages. Visit www.giveshoes.org for more information.
About Adam Gregory:
Twenty-three-year-old Big Machine/NSA/Midas recording artist Adam Gregory is a native of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. After signing his first record deal with Sony Music Canada at age 13, he scored several Top Ten hits and Gold records in his native country before permanently relocating to Nashville in 2007. Gregory recently concluded an eight-month promotional radio tour and appeared on the Grand Ole Opry three times this past year.
The rising star sped up the U.S. charts in the summer of 2008 with his first stateside single, "Crazy Days," which broke into the Top 30. Gregory released his follow-up single, "What It Takes," in November. His debut album is scheduled for release in both the U.S. and Canada in early 2009.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
1/1/09: Happy New Year!
Hey everyone,
I hope you've all been doing well. I'm sure for some of you it's been a matter of trying to stay warm. The past 6 days have been relaxing for me. I've spent time with friends in Nashville and it's been great just to chill out. I've kept to my original plan. I went home to Canada during Christmas for 5 days and then I flew back to Nashville to see my friends and spend some time with them. Tomorrow I will be flying back home for another 4 days and I'm excited about that. My family is looking forward to me coming home again. I spent last night watching the New Year's festivities at Times Square on TV. I didn't really go out on the town. I was just in Times Square a couple of weeks ago, so seeing it on television brought back some good memories of when I was there. It was 2009 here before it was for my parents back home, so they called and wished me a Happy New Year an hour earlier or so and then I ended up calling them when it switched over on there side. Although I wasn't home, I felt like I was with them. My family and I are close and I make it a point in every day to give them a call just to say hi and fill them in with what I've done that day. I know they appreciate it and it gives me a sense of home just by hearing their voices over the phone. Anyways, Happy New Year to you all and I can't wait to see you out at future shows! God Bless!
ag)
I hope you've all been doing well. I'm sure for some of you it's been a matter of trying to stay warm. The past 6 days have been relaxing for me. I've spent time with friends in Nashville and it's been great just to chill out. I've kept to my original plan. I went home to Canada during Christmas for 5 days and then I flew back to Nashville to see my friends and spend some time with them. Tomorrow I will be flying back home for another 4 days and I'm excited about that. My family is looking forward to me coming home again. I spent last night watching the New Year's festivities at Times Square on TV. I didn't really go out on the town. I was just in Times Square a couple of weeks ago, so seeing it on television brought back some good memories of when I was there. It was 2009 here before it was for my parents back home, so they called and wished me a Happy New Year an hour earlier or so and then I ended up calling them when it switched over on there side. Although I wasn't home, I felt like I was with them. My family and I are close and I make it a point in every day to give them a call just to say hi and fill them in with what I've done that day. I know they appreciate it and it gives me a sense of home just by hearing their voices over the phone. Anyways, Happy New Year to you all and I can't wait to see you out at future shows! God Bless!
ag)
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