Monday, Tuesday April 16th and 17th 2007
Week 3 South East Radio visits

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Here we are! Getting ready to start on week three of our radio tour visits! This week we’ll be focusing on the S.E. portion of the country with Mike Rogers.
We had a few days off at home to regroup, do laundry and to switch out busses. Yep, we moved to a different bus! The previous one was scheduled to be sent out elsewhere so we had to move all of our stuff onto a new bus. It’s so crazy how settled in you can become on a 45 foot space. You literally move in and it becomes home! Another funny thing about moving to a different bus is that you have to relearn where and how to pack things and re-organize them. It’s also quite entertaining figuring out how to open the various “push button” doors, turning on lights, working T.V. remotes, and even flushing the toilets!
So here we are, once again heading out of downtown Nashville and I couldn’t help but to once again capture the moment of beauty and thinking of how blessed we are to be doing what we’re doing. I couldn’t help but to stop the girls in midst of their conversations and have them take in the special moment and reflect where we’ve come from and what we’ve done to get to this point. How cool!

We’re heading to Asheville, NC. To see K-99 Kiss Country.

Once we got to Asheville, we invited Zach, Georgy, Chelsea, Brian and Jeff onto the bus to listen and hang with us. We played them some of our tunes and later that eve we had dinner with Jeff Davis and Brian Hatfield at a place called “Flatrock.” Neat place and wonderful Tilapia! Debbie found out that Jeff was born in Huntington, Indiana, which was only an hour from where she’d been born. Also she was intrigued to find out that he had had a book from the radio station “WOWO” which used to host barn dance bands back in the 20’s and 30’s. That struck her as cool since her grandpa used to be in a barn dance band and they used to do that whole Indiana circuit.
Trenna and I talked, showed pictures and shared stories with Brian Hatfield about our pets. It was a really good dinner and it was nice talking with Brian and Jeff. Thanks for hanging with us!

Tuesday, April 17th 2007
Visits with WSOC Charlotte, N.C., WKKT and WTQR Greensboro, N.C.

Today we rolled onto Charlotte N.C. to meet Rick Mc Cracken, Stacey, Chele and D.J. of WSOC. They all came on the bus and we played for them. They would’ve been able to have lunch with us except that they all were a day behind on their work due to power outages following the storms that came through here the day before. We went on to lunch and actually got to hook up with some close friends of ours from Charlotte. Hey Bonnie and Sarah, great to see you!


Dinner at “Table” with John Roberts of WKKT Cat Country.

After a few hours of chill time, we were off to this cool restaurant called “Table” to meet up with John Roberts and his wife Chris. The place was elaborate! We hung out in the bar area for a few rounds and taking in the atmosphere before they arrived. It was most definitely some of the best food that we’d ever had. I actually tried Bison for the first time! It was really tasty and still as healthy as chicken. We talked about American Idol and Canada (that’s where they were from). It was John’s birthday so we had a desert brought to him (and it was yummy!). Speaking of deserts, the Bison was awesome, but we got to try their banana foster. The chef made it for us right there (at one point it flamed up really high!), and it tasted great. Finally, we made it out to the bus and only because they were close friends with Mike Rogers, (our S.E. radio rep. who’s out with us), did they get to see a “crazier” goofier side of Cowboy Crush. Between Debbie’s famous Grinch face imitation and my Chewbacka impression and just goofiness all around from all of us, it made for an extra fun acoustic show and visit.
Another cool part to the bus show was that a close dear friend to Debbie, me and the band showed up to watch us play. So nice to see you Jenna! Debbie and I hung out with her for a while after the meet and caught up on talk. So we probably didn’t call it a night until around 1am! Yikes! I'm going to bed! More tomorrow........