Thursday, Sept. 27th gig in Culver, Indiana at the “Culver Academy”
Hello! Today we were in Culver, Indiana along with “The Low Cash Cowboys” to do a show at the Culver Academy for the students. The school is mainly a military school, established back in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver. It became co-ed several years back. Culver also has “The Black Horse Troop,” the biggest calvary left in the U.S. The campus was beautiful and you could sense the order and discipline of the students and the inner workings of the school. Our show was in the “Steinbrenner PAC,” which was a brand new building built for the arts. The school is scholastically known for leadership.

We got to take a tour of the campus and look at the various buildings. They were so beautiful and majestic. We even got to go have lunch in the mess hall. After soundcheck, we got to chill for a while and the new PAC had a great sounding stairwell for me to play my fiddle in! I hung out there and played for a good while. I find that I’m creatively inspired in certain places due to the awesome sounding reverberating acoustics. These places would be: a stairwell with 2 or more flights and brick walls, locker rooms with huge showers (not running of course) ., and hee hee, bathrooms. So I felt at home!

This was our first show with the “Low Cash Cowboys” and they got the crowd fired up for us! All of the students loved us and it was interesting because the had all of the guys one side of the room, the faculty in the center and the ladies on he other side. So throughout the show we would get them into screaming matches to see who could scream louder. They were all having a great time! We did an encore of “Sweet Home Alabama” with Low Cash and we all got to rock the house. After the show we got to meet everyone and sign military shirts, hats, etc. (hope we didn’t get you guys in trouble). We felt so welcome in Culver! Thank you for having us!

Sept. 22nd and 23rd 2007
Shows at “Southpoint Casino” in Las Vegas
Poor sick Trenna!!

It’s been quite the busy weekend for us! We flew in Friday night. We met up with Eric and his new Bride at the Vegas Airport.
After we got to the hotel/casino, I was wide awake, so I went down to the showroom and caught a cool Prince tribute band called “Purple Reign.” They were awesome!
A last minute opportunity to play at the Las Vegas Speedway came up. We were to do a show there Saturday afternoon, then run back to the casino where we were booked to play another. We did our show at the Speedway and all went well! We went on to do our Saturday night show, and all was well except for poor Trenna! The dry Vegas air and the rigors of the day had taken a toll on her voice, not counting she’d been having sickness issues. By the end of the show, she was pretty hoarse and instead of going out for a night on the town, we felt that rest was much needed. The weather is so dry out in Vegas, and it is notoriously known to be hell for singers.

Sunday rolled around and it gave way to worse news: Trenna couldn’t talk and Becky was now having issues as well! We were supposed to have joined Trenna’s brother and family for a cookout, but rest was needed.
I did get out and take some time to stroll up and down the strip and visit the “MGM Grand”, the “Luxor”, “New York, New York” and “Mandalay Bay.” I hadn’t been in these places in a while and I was amazed at how much they’d changed , especially MGM. I had done shows way back when at the MGM Grand in the dome area, but since then, it has become a bar and there was no longer a stage. I get a kick out of this city and I never can sleep while I’m here because there’s always so much to do and so much to see. I remember several times in which I’d walk so much that my shins would start hurting and even then that wouldn’t stop me. A lot of action all over! It can be a little bit overwhelming, sensory overload., your eyes start spinning like the slot machines.
So at 5:30pm, we had a line check. With Trenna in the condition that she was in, we were unsure of how to get through our show.
Debbie, Becky and I talked and went over some other songs that we used to do. It was actually kind of neat to pull those out and play through them but we’d wished that it wasn’t under such bummer circumstances.
Showtime came and we were prepared to put some of these other songs into the set list if Trenna wasn’t feeling well enough to sing the entire show. With a little bit of an elongation of “Orange Blossom Special,” some solos and one tough girl as a lead singer, we made it through. Time to rest up, and to take A LOT of Airborne vitamins! See ya’ in Culver, Indiana!

Friday Sept. 7th, gig in Olathe, Kansas, Sat. Sept. 8th gig in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Howdy! These two shows went really well, we had a blast hanging out with everyone!

We left Nashville Thursday at Midnight and made it to “Olathe, Ks.” Around 10am.

It was a really nice and comfortable town and everyone made us feel welcome. There were a lot of Friday night high school football games going on around the area, but we still had a great crowd of supportive people. Thank you Olathe for having us, and it was nice to meet “Chocolate Thunder” of the SWAT security team after the show! Ha ha!

Note: We found out later that there was a gentleman at the show who was 105 years old, who’d been in both world war one and world war two. He was out of the military in the late 1940’s. He made a point to go to Eric and tell him how much he enjoyed the show. If anyone knows this man, please tell him “thanks” for us.


We stayed over in Olathe, and the following morning after a radio interview, we were on our way to Council Bluffs, Iowa to play at Iowa Western Community College.

It was Saturday, college football day and watching our road manager Eric getting into the Texas A & M v.s. Fresno college game was entertaining. Kim got a big kick out of taunting Eric throughout the game, cheering for Fresno (Eric is devout Aggie supporter!) just to set him off. We got to Council Bluffs and we’d never seen Eric run off the bus, set the gear up and have us at sound check quicker than that day! Ha, actually I tend to be more of an NFL fan than college, however, I must say that this game was really good and we all ended up back on the bus watching the final outcome of it. After triple overtime, Aggies pulled it off and that made our day, especially Eric’s. We went on stage not long afterwards and played our show. The theatre that we played in sounded excellent, and the crew was really helpful. Eric got the opportunity to record us live! There were a few parts of the show that cracked us up really bad.., but I am not going to tell you because., well., I just can’t right now. : ) Thank you for having us! We hope to come back again!

We’ve had the week off, we’ll be heading out to Vegas this weekend. We’ll talk to you later!

August 29th 2007
Benefit for leukemia @ "The Cadillac Ranch."

Hello! Whenever we get the chance, we love to support by taking part in various benefits/fund raisers.

Today we got to play right here in Nashville at "the Cadillac Ranch" for a benefit that was being held to raise money for leukemia research. Many items were auctioned off and there were a lot of participating singers, songwriters and bands. All went well and after our performance, we hung out to show our support and also watched our friends "Abel kane" do a great show. It was so nice to see so many people willing to help raise money for Leukemia and Lymphoma research. Thank you Rita for letting us be apart of a great night!


Sept. 1st 2007 "Monroe, Mi.”… and a little bit of tailgating.

We had bus call late Friday night, and…..well, it ended up being a lot later! Originally our time to meet our bus at midnight turned into a 3 hour campout in the parking lot of 100 oaks mall. We had a blast at our own tailgate party but the bus never made it. First we were told the holdup had been because of a TV. Installation. (we have to be able to watch movies!) So, no big deal, we hung tight, raided our supplies box which had our mighty bottle of Jack Daniels, plastic cups and coke. I turned up the radio in my car, and Eric went for ice! As we hung out in the lot and Eric made check in calls to the bus driver, we received more bad news. we heard that when the bus went to leave the lot, the brakes locked up. It then had to pull into a truck stop across town for servicing. By then it was 3am. We were all pretty beat, then Becky got the bright idea for us to hitch up and go meet the bus where it was being serviced so we could get to bed. So we did just that!! Yay Becky!

The bus didn't roll out of town until around 5:30am and we had to scramble! We got to the venue around 4:30pm, and in spite of it all still managed to get in a line check prior to our show. The weather up in Monroe was absolutely beautiful and we were on the bill with Steve Azar.
It was quite the family gathering for Trenna! Her mom had hopped on the bus with us in Nashville. We sooo love having her out, she's so vibrant and witty and a stinker too! She kept us laughing the whole trip! We see where Trenna gets it from! Trenna's dad Delbert made it out to hang with us and his friends from Monroe. It was really nice to see everyone!
We did a great show and got a lot of great response from the crowd. Thank you all, hope to see you again soon!