Travel, travel, and more travel! Captain Jack Sparrow, new song release, songwriting. Adam’s blog for November 2, 2008
We started off this past week in Raleigh ,NC and then flew back home to Nashville. It
felt a little weird to us because we left Raleigh at 9 something in the morning
and landed at 9 something that same morning in Nashville. There are so many
different time changes when you travel as much as the band and I do that your body
just never seems to get used to it. When we got home we didn’t have anything to do the rest of the day so I
went out and washed my truck and took a little drive. That same evening my
manager had a Halloween party at his loft and a bunch of people came over and
got into the whole dress up for Halloween mode, it was cool! Chad and I got
kidnapped at the party and turned into pirates. We had everything from black eye liner
to eye patches. I don’t know how you women do it
with that eye liner stuff but that’s a bugger to get off, and I was still trying
to get it completely off that following day. I wrote with Doug Johnson the
following day and I believe that we wrote a hit song. It was a real honor to write with Doug, and he’s really a great dude.
“What It Takes” my new single was also released the same day that I wrote with Doug and the response at
radio was amazing! “What It Takes” got 15 adds it’s first week which is an
amazing first week!! Thank you so much to my team of people for all their
tremendous work and dedication and also to all the radio stations that have
added my songs, your support is so much appreciated. After writing with Doug
that day I raced home and immediately played the new song for my manager and band because
I was so excited about it. We named the song “Invisible” and I can’t wait
for y’all to eventually hear it . I had the pleasure of sleeping in till
about 5:30 am the following day and had a 6 am phone interview with non other
then my hometown station CFCW in Edmonton. They’ve always been very supportive
towards me and my music and it felt good being able to chat with them again.
Following that interview I had another inter view scheduled for 10 am so I had a
little window of opportunity to sleep some more before I did that interview. I
had the rest of that day off until 5 pm when we had to meet the bus downstairs
to take us to the Grand Ole Opry house. Yes, we had the opportunity again for
the third time to play the Opry stage and what a thrill again that was. It
never fails I always get the excited nervous feeling before walking out on that
stage, in fact it’s a complete rush of adrenalin that I feed off of when I’m out there. The
performance was a magical moment again for Chad, Mark and myself and yet another
experience we will never forget! The bus took us all home from the Opry that
night and I packed up my suitcase for the trip the next day, called my
mom and dad to say goodnight and went straight to bed after that. I woke up at
6:30am that next morning and Mark and I met Shelley downstairs at 7:15
and headed to the airport to catch a Southwest flight to Raleigh NC. I want
to put a plug out there for Southwest, that airline kicks butt and we love
flying with them! It never fails, they always treat their passengers with
respect, and they’re always so professional, they really make flying a pleasure.
Since the start of the radio tour we’ve flown so much with Southwest that I’ve already got one free
rountrip ticket and am not far away from getting another one. You gotta love those
nice surprises when they happen, especially when the price of everything has gone
up. We arrived into Raleigh and I had a few hours to rest before making a
Cricket in store appearance. The Cricket visit went well and Mark and I played 5
songs, I signed autographs and even gave away a guitar to guy that had his name
drawn out of the list of names that we had. I think he was a little shocked and
surprised and I do believe that we made his day. After the visit to Cricket we
headed back to the hotel and got ready to go to dinner. It was a fairly early
dinner and I had no plans afterwards so I went back to my room and played lazy.
We flew out of Raleigh the next morning for Vegas where the band and I
played the House Of Blues at Mandalay Bay. We had a great time there and I was
very happy with the show and the turnout! I had a visit with KWNR earlier in
the day before the show and was put on air and asked to perform a few songs
live. It’s cool because I remembered going to KWNR earlier near the beginning
of my radio tour, so it was real nice to see familiar people. From there we
went back to the hotel and I had a tiny bit of down time while the band left for
sound check. Before the show I went to dinner with Cary and Bill from KWNR and
we all just hung out and chatted. We then made our way over to the House of
Blues and I did an hour show to a great crowd. I went back up
to my room after that and called it a night shortly after. I hope y’all had a
great Halloween last night!
The band and I did a show in Tucson Arizona at the Maverick club o n Halloween night.
It was a dance hall type setting and we played a 75 minute set. It was kinda cool cause
most everyone dressed up being it was Halloween and were up dancing to most of
our songs. The band and I threw around the thought of dressing up as well but
then decided at the last minute maybe not. At one point in the set I had
mentioned to the crowd that the reason we didn’t dress up was because we were
scary enough already. This year for Halloween I went as a country singer, LOL.
Anyhow the show went off well and afterwards I signed some autographs and
headed back to the hotel to try and get a few hours of sleep. Shelley and I had
a 9:45 flight this morning leaving out of Tucson and the rest of the band left
on a later flight. We all ended up in Nashville today and will
be home till Monday night at midnight and then we will be on the road
again! As much as I love the traveling and meeting new people I must say there
is nothing like going home. Well, I hope y’all have a great week ahead and I’ll
fill you in next week with what’s new. Goodnight and God Bless!
ag)