Wednesday July 8, 2009
Wednesday July 8, 2009
11:19 pm
Brush Prairie, Washington
Arrived to my folks’ place late night on July 6th. They, with my son and my dog, met me at the airport, and oh what a happy reunion that was!
The last week of tour with Rod was a real joy. He was a most pleasant traveling companion – both gentlemanly and … well I can’t think of the right word except to say we felt like good mates, hanging out at the hotel bar after a gig, talking about the night and swapping stories about our lives. You get to know a person pretty well by spending every waking hour with them for a week straight.
One of the biggest highlights of the whole tour was two of the very last gigs, at the Maverick Festival. (If you don’t know Maverick magazine, and you miss No Depression, then by all means get yourself a subscription.) Rod and I played our set on Saturday evening, the 4th of July, and then in the morning we did, I have to admit, a really great gospel set. Then we were joined on stage by Al Perkins and we did more gospel tunes. After that, we walked around and said all our goodbyes and I was in a state of total disbelief that I was off to play a gig that night in another town, and that, first thing the next morning, I’d be on a plane bound for New York, and eventually back at home.
Tour is kind of like life in that sense: In life, you go along according to plan for a long time and then all of a sudden something traumatic happens – you get a divorce, or your child dies – and life spits you up and lands you in the middle of a totally new place and you’re dizzy and spinning and you think, “Wow … Did all that really happen???”
It’s … surreal… and … shocking … and boring. Awash with relief that it’s over, but deeply saddened by the loss.
Still adapting to the time change as well.
Will be getting to work on reconciling the books for the tour as well. Not sure what the profit will end up as, but it frankly doesn’t look good with the way the exchange rates are now.
By fortunate coincidence, I have 4 new EmergingArtistResources.com clients lined up for July. That is good.
And if all goes well, I hope to be having my son living with me for the coming school year. It’ll be his final year in high school (I started young, I know) and I have been really pestering him to come spend time with me. And I may finally have him convinced. So I am hitting the ground at full speed, out job hunting and looking for a new place to live. We’ll see what the Universe has in store ….
