Friday, May 18th Franklin Park, Il. Railroad Daze Festival, and Saturday, May 19th Robinsonville, Ms. at “Gold Strike Casino.”

Hey everyone! Hope all is well out there! We’ve been busy around here, not only musically (business ect.), but with our lives at home as well. So thanks for bearing with us through our times of still trying to play “catch up” after being out for 5 weeks! I, personally, had taken it upon myself to totally strip and re-stain the deck at my house! I’m pleased to say that I FINALLY finished the damned thing and I’m still finding stain on parts of my body! Ha! Anyhow, as soon as it has finished drying, I want to have everyone over for a deck party. I have opened up a heck of a can of worms because now that the deck looks brand spankin’ new, the rest of the house could use a good renewal on the paint. As Homer Simpson would say “D’OH!!” Looks like I’ll be taking “Painting 101” for the rest of the season when I’m not out on the road.

Anyhow, we had an awesome weekend. We’d left Thursday night and we were happy to have our agent/manager Bob Kinkead out with us. We’re not sure if he’s going to come out with us again after the various forms of punishment we put him through. Hee hee! I’ll leave it up to Trenna to post the “proper forms of picture blackmail” as needed.
We were delighted to be back to perform at the Railroad Daze festival in Franklin Park, IL. The weather was absolutely perfect and it was nice to see everyone! Great to hang with you again Jeff! We missed you Jim Peterik! It was nice to see you again Mayor Dan, and we really do appreciate your work towards raising money for Multiple Sclerosis. During our show, Mayor Dan arranged to have donation cans passed through the audience to raise money for M.S. He’d kept in touch with Becky since our last show because they both have loved ones who have M.S. He gave her a bandanna with various names of people who have M.S. signed on it. She was extremely touched. Thank you again so much.
They treated us to Italian lunch at a local place called “Gino’s,” were we tried various pizzas, Chicken Parmesan, and lasagna. Thank you for making us feel at home and welcomed back.

The next day, we were off to Robinsonville, Ms. to play as show with T.G. Shepard at the Gold Strike Casino. We actually stopped off in Memphis on the way to check out the huge International Barbecue festival they were holding on the riverfront. We got to hang out and walk for a few hours. I couldn't resist but to take a stroll up the famous Beale Street and take in some of the bluesy vibe. We had to move on afterwards, but we did get to drive past Graceland on the way out.
We got to the Gold Strike Casino and they were very hospitable. They had a nice greenroom ready for us- full of snacks, coffee, tea etc. They’d also given us some rooms in which to clean up in. I must say that with a lot of casinos, it’s quite a trek getting back and forth from one place to the other. Debbie and I had taken a 15 minute stroll up to one room, only for poor Debbie to realize that’d she’d left something back on the bus! Poor girl! The show was being held in their theatre, which was absolutely amazing sounding! We especially noticed the wonderful acoustics of the theatre when we would perform our slower ballads. You could hear a pin drop in there!
We got the opportunity to meet Kimmy’s friends and folks. She’s from Memphis, so she had a lot of friends that came out to the show. We had a lot of fun throughout the show and afterwards we got to go hang out in the VIP lounge of the casino where they had drinks, snacks and cookies…, chocolate chip cookies.., yummy. I ate too many. We hung out, chilled, laughed a lot and turned some heads. We proceeded to pick on Bob, our poor manager and make his eve a living hell. Ha.., well, we all had fun! Thanks again T.G. and Gold Strike for having us!

Friday, May 4th 2007
Featherlite International Dealer Meeting in Cresco, Iowa

Howdy! We just got in from our date out in Cresco, Iowa for the Featherlite Dealer Meeting, and may we say, what a fine bunch of hospitable people! They made us feel so welcome and we were so happy to be able to travel out to Iowa do a show for them. In return, they ended up hooking us up with an awesome trailer and even loads of cool Featherlite clothing. You guys took a big gamble setting us five women lose in your “swag” closet!

The gig went very well and this was officially Kim Trammel’s (our new drummer girl) first trip out on the tour bus. She didn’t sleep too well the first night on the bus, but the second night, she did much better! She also had to learn what “getting your bus legs” meant. Pretty much it’s like learning how to walk again in a moving vehicle. I guess it would be kind of the same comparison to getting your “sea legs.” (play this game)

The venue fed us plenty of barbeque ribs, chicken, potatoes, ect., and after our show, they took us on a grand tour of the various trailers that you had to choose from. We were so blown away at how many trailers they had and the different designs/styles depending on it’s purpose. They had these particular horse trailers that actually doubled as living quarters! So you could haul 3-4 horses and also have a separate area in which to live in, with a full on shower, toilet, kitchen, living area with an extending side and a sleeping area! Kudos to Featherlite trailers!

Thanks again for having us, we really hope to see you all again soon!

Friday, April 27th 2007
Visits with Froggy WOGI 98.3, and Y108 WDSY in Pittsburgh, PA.
“Officially the last day!”

Here we are! We’ve reached the final, (at least for now) day of radio tour! We have two stations left to visit and they’re right here in Pittsburgh!


First, we were off to Froggy WOGI 98.3 to go see Frank Bell, Dave Anthony and crew. They were so nice to us! They gave us froggy shirts, froggy cups and stickers! We walked into the station and there was cool frog stuff EVERYWHERE! I especially got a kick out of this because I am an avid frog collector! We played our show for them, got to do liners and visited for a while. We also met with Donnie from Boogie Street Custom Guitars who gave us some pretty cool shirts. We are anxious to see what kind of instruments they have! Because of me being so excited about all the frog paraphernalia, On the way out the door, I was surprised with a froggy bobble head! It’s so cute. Thank you so much guys - I love it!

Next up was WDSY Y108 in Pittsburgh where we had lunch at the station with Jane, Stoney Richards, Calvin, Mike and crew! They also recorded our live performance. You can WATCH it HERE.
Many congrats to Jane on her recent wedding! Lunch was fun and we found out that Calvin is the troublemaker of the crew. (Of course, I think Trenna egged him on a bit) HA! We got to go on-air with Mike for a while and he told us how much he loved our version of the Star-Spangled Banner. Our very own Becky Priest arranged our version so we were so excited when we were asked to perform it live on the air! They recorded us singing it and want to use it again on the air. Yea Baby!
Also while we were at WDSY, we met Heather who was taking around a Virginia Tech Banner to spread hope and pay homage to the victims of that horrible day. We want to thank Heather for letting us sign the banner and for giving up her time to help others. We love meeting people that make a difference in this world. You rock girl!

Well, that’s all for now! We’ll be flying home and getting in this eve. It’s funny, but it really didn’t seem like a 5 week stretch and the last two weeks went by so quickly. We’re all excited to get home, but we’ll have a lot of catching up to do. We’ll be meeting the bus the next day, start the process of “moving out.” That’s always an adventure! Thanks again to all of our radio reps. for putting up with us out here! We had so much fun with all of you. A special thank you goes out to Donny Michael of http://www.gigtours.com/ for being a wonderful bus driver and bus host! Also Thanks to all our new friends (and our old favorites) at radio who took the time to stop, listen and to hang out with us. We hope to see you all again really soon!!

This will not be the end of the blog! We plan on continuing to write about our travels as they come. So stay tuned for some more craziness from the girls of Cowboy Crush! Till next time - Renae'