Pittsburgh by way of Nashville - Kicking 2010 in the pants
So I scheduled myself a Saturday night in Nashville (never been before), and Sunday night in Pittsburgh (god thats a long way to drive from nashville) because I dont know how to read maps i guess.
Left night of Jan 1st, post catching up with Ken of @crosskentucky and Bill & Alissa of @starfkradium, we all went to go see Sherlock do his thang at the Verizon Center DC movie theatre.
Damn it was a cold weekend, like 10 degrees the whole trip…ew. Left DC around 7pm, got into Knoxville around 2am, couldnt sleep in my car cuz it was too cold, at a truckstop. Got some McDonalds at 5am and headed back down the road.
Got into Nashville around 10am, headed to Broadway to listen to some loud-ass music cuz thats what i do! Nashville has so much cool going on, its scary, and its really a musicians heaven and glorified tour-stop for all your 1-stop needs. BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, every major label you know, NSAI, Ryman, Broadway, Country Music Hall of Fame, and more that I havent found yet, all within a few miles off Hwy 40 exit.
Before heading to Douglas Corner for the night, with Nashville friends Haley Rossow & Daview Newbould on the bill, I stopped by The Bluebird where I’m playing a month later on Jan 17th (which is actually tomorrow night when i finally posted this haha) to find my posters in the front window, and my name in Metromix playing the famous, damn near cool.
I think you can see my poster in the bottom right hand of the window too..
Douglas Corner rocked! Haley brought some interesting crowd including her manager and people really enjoyed it! Here’s a snap of Haley doing her thang, we did 2 rounds of songs, and it was great to hear both Haley & David do some songs I haven’t heard in a while…love Davids Goldmines song… rediculus…
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After a night of stooopid amounts of drinking at Sams in Nashville with Haley, I got my hungover ass on the road and drove for the rest of it… Louisville, Cincinatti, Columbus, to Pittsburgh…wasn’t all bad post-whitecastle stop however :)
Pittsburgh was somehow colder than Nashville…snowing, bitter, empty, however Jo @ Howlers that night gave the bands some free food, and it was totally hardkor. Elliot Sussman of Pittsburgh fame hosted the evening, and some audience members sat in on harmonica and banjo for me to have some late night fun in my half-asleep half-tired state. Good to know I can push 8 hours driving and a good show at the end, if needed be.
Photo of me changing in the bathroom @ Howlers…such a rawkstar:
Im never doing that 8-hr-drive & show in 1 day thing again…lessons learning, no classes needed.
Pittsburgh load-out moved to Harrisburg hotel room, before arriving back to DC in time to work Monday morning.
