Viva Nashvegas: Highlights

Technically, it’s my birthday right now.  Happy Birthday, self!  Hope you enjoy your bronchitis.  I feel terrible, but am still having a great time in Music City USA.  On Sunday, Michael Johnston, Dan, and I played at Cumberland Church and had a blast with service programming director Billy McCarthy and campus director Eddie Johnson.

 

Since then, we’ve been going to concerts, renewing acquaintances, making new friends, having meetings, and such.  Some high points…

 

Kristy Starling, whose record Dan recently produced, is here with us, and we’ve had meetings about the best option for getting her record out there.  Amazing voice.

 

It’s pretty cool that Michael W. Smith did Kristian Stanfill’s and Alex Nifong’s (Atlanta guys) version of Jesus Paid It All last night at the Ryman.  

 

We’re staying at the home of music photographer Allen Clark, one of my favorite people in the world.  

 

Saw new OMG Records artist Chasen from Greenville SC tonight at The Rutledge.  They were good.  The lead singer sounds like Paul Carrack from Squeeze (remember them?).

 

Hung out with too many friends to name, from Nashville and Atlanta, like performance coach Tom Jackson and former Atlantan singer/songwriter Kevin Lawson, who lives here now.  Hanging with more friends tomorrow, including Dave Barnes‘ manager Chris DeTray.

 

But for now, to paraphrase Tommy Boy, Danny need sleepy.  Happy Birthday to me.

 

 

 

Gene K

For the record, K is for Krcelic, which I’m still not sure how to pronounce.  Gene (left, with Dan) came down from OMG Music headquarters in Greenville SC today to meet with us about some stuff, for which Dan and I are very grateful.  I can already tell we can learn a lot from him.  OMG has just released the long awaited debut of Chasen (thanks for the swag, Gene).  

After Starbucks and lunch, we headed over to the studio, where we spent awhile debating whether astronauts really landed on the moon.  

I love that the studio is Grand Central Station for a lot of local talent.  Today the Winston Audio guys were in there, as was Jeremiah from Manchester Orchestra.  Nice guys, all.

Anyway, Gene’s dad worked for NASA and he wrote Gene’s name on one of the rocket engines that blasted our guys off to the moon back on July 20, 1969.  That is, if you believe it really happened.  No comment from me yet.  You weigh in.