Archive for August, 2008

Adam’s Journal (Aug 22) - Show in Canada, (really!) early wakeups, laundry, and the Dark Night in IMAX!

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Hey Phoenix, how ya’ll doin? I’ve been doing well, staying busy as usual, but
loving it! This past week, Barry my road manager and I flew up to BC Canada to
do a show. It was for Country 107.1 out of Abbotsford BC. I haven’t been up to
Canada in the past 5 months, and I was given such a warm welcome from the fans
at the event. The event itself was a very personal show held in a 300 seater
place, and it was awsome because the place was full!!! I went up on stage
expecting to do a 45 minute set, but ended up doing probably over an hour and a half.. The
audience there was just so welcoming to me that I couldn’t leave, so I just
kept singing, haha.. It actually got to a point where it became a request hour,
and I made many attempts at some of my older songs even though I hadn’t played t hem
in ages, and the audience ate that right up and were singing along to pretty
much every word. You had to have been there!! We were up in Canada for just 2
days, and the day we flew out being Thursday, we had to be ready and in the
Lobby for 5 am… ouch hah, once again not much sleep . I’m home in Nashville
now, and I made a stop at William Morris Agency today, and played for a bunch of
the staff there. They are my new booking agency, and I must say that I am
completely thrilled to be part of that family as well!!.. Other than that, I
got a bunch of laundry done this afternoon, and now I’m gonna go and see the
Dark Night movie for the second time. The only difference is, I’m gonna see it in
the IMAX!! That should be pretty cool! Tomorrow I’ll be taking part in the
Monster Truck Rally here in Nashville, and I’ll be doing an acoustic show
with my friends “The Harters”. The Harters are a new family group, and they are
incredible!! Well that’s all for this week wrapped up in a nut shell :) I will
see you all next week in Phoenix at the KMLE Class of ‘08 concert at Graham Central Station. I’m looking forward to meeting you all - the KMLE Nation!  Thankyou and God Bless!
ag)

Adam’s journal - discovering Whataburgers, Jeff Foxworthy, a day off and learning to go with the flow!

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Hey everyone, hope you’ve all been doing well.. I’m home here in Nashville as
of early this morning, we just arrived in from Orlando Florida! I did a couple
shows between Sarasota and Orlando during the weekend for Carl Black Chevrolet,
and the band and I had a great time!! Have any of you ever been to
Whataburger restaraunt? If you haven’t try and find one and go, because the burgers are
awesome!! We stopped at one on the way home last night and met up with some of
Barry’s (my road manager) family, and hung out for a little while. Then we were
back on the road headed North for Nashville! Everything since the move to Big
Machine Records has been going pretty well. It seems that more and more shows
have been coming in, which is good, and there are a lot of things in the works
for the near future! My mom and dad were in town all last week, and we had a
real nice visit for the time that we got to visit at least. I did a ton of
media interviews and TV interviews Monday and Tuesday of last week, some of
those interviews were with Jeff Foxworthy and Charlie Chase which was pretty
cool. I had Wednesday to spend with my parents which was
nice, so we fit in as much as we could in that one day to make up for the rest
of the time lol.. Other than that, I’ve just been going with the flow.. When
you are a new artist in the States like I am, you don’t always know what’s gonna
happen next so the best thing I’ve found, is to just go with the flow.. I like
to look at the schedule sometimes though just to get an idea of where I’ll be,
so I know for myself.. Today I have the day off, so I’m just gonna soak it in,
maybe go and grab a bite somewhere and then go to a movie later.. I don’t get a
chance to go to movies all that often, and thats something that I really enjoy
doing, so I thought it would be a good opportunity tonight being that I have the
day off ;) That’s pretty much all I’ve been up to, and I will continue to
keep you all in the loop. Thank you guys and God Bless!

ag)

Journal - delayed flights, Phillies game National Anthem, new record label!

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Hey guys, how are you doing? I wish I could tell you that I was home in my loft

writing this weekly journal to you, but instead I am  here in the

Baltimore airport

waiting on my delayed flight to

Nashville.. Now don’t get me wrong I love it

here, I think it’s a great place, but I am  praying that the flight makes it out

tonight because I have full press days in

Nashville on both Monday and

Tuesday. Oh well stuff happens and that’s the chance you have to take when

there’s bad weather conditions and you have to fly. On another note, I had the

privilege and honour to sing for a half hour and do the National Anthem at the

Redding Phillies game today, it was awesome!!! That was the second time now that

I’ve performed the anthem live, it felt good and at the same time relieving

to have done it again!! The crowd was very welcoming, as well as all the

staff and organizers of the game:)

Another exciting thing that happened within

the last couple of days was, my parents flew to

Nashville without me knowing and

totally surprised me… I haven’t seen them for 2 months or more, so it

was a real nice surprise.. They will be staying in Nashville for a week, and

although I have stuff going on while they’re here, its still nice to come home at the

end of the day knowing that they’re here:)

 The Big Machine record deal is going so great, a lot of exciting things in the works! And I was excited because we were able to hire Shelley who was one of my record reps from Midas Records onto our team again… She is an awesome person to have around and that made me very happy:)!  Unfortunately in the business stuff happens, and when I moved to Big Machine Records, the promotions team from Midas were let go.. It was hard

to see that happen, but unfortunately it does happen, and I pray that all those

wonderful people I worked with at Midas are filled with many more opportunities.

I’m very excited to be with Big Machine as I had mentioned in my last journal I

know they are the best, and it is going to be exciting to see what they can do.  I’m just thrilled to be a part of the family! Thank you everyone for staying tuned every week to these journals , and I will talk to you next week… God Bless ag)

Dated 8/10/08

2008 Academy of Country Music Awards weekend

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Adam plays an acoustic set for the KMLE Nation ACM trip winners.

Adam Gregory joins Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood on Big Machine Records

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

BIG things are happening for the KMLE’s Year in the Career artist - Adam Gregory!  Read Adam’s newest blog here (dated August 5, 2008)

Hey guys… wow, where to start where to start… It’s been quite the week for
me, and for everyone involved in my career for that matter. I’ve now become part of the Big Machine Record label
family, and I couldn’t be more thrilled!!!! The deal got finalized a few days
ago and already good stuff has been happening! I’m so grateful for what Midas records
has done for me to date, and I’m so excited to see where Big Machine can take
it from here.. I met today with all the crew at Big Machine Records along with my
team of people and I tell you, what an amazingly dedicated staff of people they
are, I was impressed!!! They were very welcoming and just as excited as I 
am to venture into this partnership:) Big Machines roster includes… Taylor
Swift, Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks, Jack Ingram, Danielle Peck just to name a few.< BR> So as you can see I’m in good hands. Since I wrote to you last week
and before the Big Machine stuff became public, I made an appearance in downtown
Colorado Springs at the So Do club.  We had an amazing view of the mountains from where we were, we could see Pikes Peek in the distance.
Anybody that has been to Colorado springs would know just how beautiful that
is! I had the pleasure of doing the show with an up and coming artist named
Katie Armiger, and she did an amazing job I must say. I brought along Mark my lead
guitar player to accompany me, and we were again blown away with the crowd
response… They were into the songs, and there was even a lady in the front
row that seemed to know all the words to my songs, that was
impressive for sure.. Again, that’s a big deal to an artist when his or her
fans can sing all the words to there songs to the point where the artist can
basically stop singing at any point during the song, and know that that person
can continue singing, it’s awsome!! From there Barry my road manager, Mark and
I drove about an hour and half back to Denver where we ended up
staying the night. We caught an early red eye back to Nashville the next
morning.. I wanted add to this blog by saying that my band has been superb by
the way since being down in Nashville, I think you all know by now that they’ve
been living at my loft, it’s been quite comfy cozy haha.. No really, it’s been
great, we all get along and I don’t think theres been one argument that I’ve
witnessed since they’ve been here, which is awesome.. I totally appreciate the
fact that the band has dedicated every Monday morning as band meeting day, where they
talk and bring up interesting points about not only improving the show, but
how to maintain the loft and keep it clean. They’ve actually gone as far as
assigning chores to everyone so that everything runs smoothly at the loft. That kinda
team work really helps me out and it keeps the loft looking half decent: Back
to the music lol,, I’m just really really excited about all that’s happening!!!
I’m so incredibly thankful to God for all this, and for the fact that he has
sent this amazing team of people into my life to help further my career. It
really is a huge team effert to make a career come off the ground, and I will
forever be appreciative for everyones input and support.. You guys are amazing
people as well and know that the support is appreciated tremendously. I couldn’t
do it without all of you either, so thank you.. Anyways, I’m going to sign off
now and try and get some shut eye, so I will talk to you all again the start of
next week.. God Bless!

ag)