Tues. June 9th Eminence, Missouri

Hi everyone! We just got back from a cool show in Eminence, Missouri for the 2009 Cross Country Trail Ride. We have done this show a couple of times before so to be back and get to perform and visit with our friends of the ride was really cool! Not to mention to take a great opportunity to pick up some cool western shirts, belts and boots at wonderful prices! I myself did partake in the huge discount sale they had going on and walked out with some really neat western shirts, and I bought my first pair of Justin “Gypsy” boots! They’re really comfy and the tops are actually pink, green and brown camo. So me! I wore them later that eve for the show and my feet thanked me.
The Cross Country Trail Ride takes place by the Jack’s Fork River. It is a weeks worth of cool music, horseback riding, taking in beautiful scenery of the Mark Twain National Forest, good food, horse shows, horse and tack sales and just a good ole’ kick butt cowboy time. Thousands show up for the event.

We arrived early Wednesday morning and pretty much had the whole morning into early afternoon to take it all in. Debbie and Trenna went horseback riding and they came back totally charged over the experience. People at the ride have always been so nice to hook us up with a couple of horses to ride whenever we’ve come out to perform and once again they did. They fitted Debbie with a Fox trotter Palomino named “Princess” and Trenna got to ride a gelding named “Jake” who was a double registered TN Walking Horse and Racing Horse/black/white/star marked like Black Beauty- both gaited horses. Princess did her own gate that was more of a “shuffle” and Jake could run walk as well as rack.
They took a beautiful trip through the Mark Twain Forrest, unfortunately some trails had been closed due to the excessive storms about three weeks ago and the high waters of the Current River. Usually you can cross the river at a fording place and hit more trails, but it was way too dangerous. Some of the trails had already had foot thick, sucking mud in some spots and limbs that had fallen that were hard to maneuver. All was well until Jake got his saddle too tight. He reared up, spayed his feet apart and rolled trying to remove his saddle. Trenna nearly escaped by jumping backwards. She was a little wary to ride him afterwards, rightly so! So they swapped horses and they were on their way. They returned the horses hot, sweaty, muddy and tired and the owners wouldn’t even let Debbie and Trenna help clean them up! Sarah did get to ride Jake as well in a cool area space they had.
After all the excitement, we had sound check and managed to get done right before the bottom fell out of the clouds shortly afterwards! It rained, and rained and rained. We were really worried that the show may get cancelled. There was a lot of lightning, and tornados hitting west of us. The opening act started a little late, but shortened their set. The weather let up and we did still get to go on and on time! We felt really welcome by everyone and it was so cool to be back at the Trail Ride. Thank you so much for having us back again!

We are now back in Nashville and we are gearing up for the world famous “CMA Festival.” From Thurs. June 11th through June 14th downtown Nashville pretty much turns into various stages of great country music entertainment. Thousands upon thousands of die hard country music fans from all over the world show up for this event ready to get autographs and see shows of their favorite country music stars and to pretty much take in the Nashville Night Life. It’s like one huge Country Music Party. We will be taking a part in the CMA Fest. We are scheduled to meet fans and and sign Saturday morning, then we hit the Sommet stage towards the early afternoon. Later that night we get to take part in another cool show at a place called “Limelight.” The radio station “KDF” will be there doing live remotes and it’s going to be one heck of a crazy time! So, we’re going to be cranking through CMA Fest weekend, but we’ll keep ya’ infoed on the happenings! Heck, if you all are not doing anything this coming week into weekend, come on out and hang!