Last night in Memphis was great. We played with our pal Jobu Babin at his CD release party at Neil's Music Hall, had great sound (which makes it easier for us to give y'all great sound. . .) and had an enthusiastic audience. Unfortunately, we just found our camera this afternoon, so we didn't get any pictures. Our friend Heath was up in Memphis on business--it's always great to hang out with a friend from home when you're on the road!
This evening we were in St. Louis at the Atomic Cowboy, home of some mighty tasty grub and two stages. Phew. We played for 4 hours, so we're pretty exhausted--gonna try and get some rest for tomorrow night at Donna's in the Lake of the Ozarks. It's been close to 100 degrees the past few days--some swimming tomorrow afternoon perhaps?

Back out on the road! We headed out on Tuesday for Athens, GA and rocked out with Catawba and Romanenko at a pre-Athfest show at the Caledonia Lounge. The Athens music scene has been turned upside-down since the Georgia Theater burned down last Friday. Last night we were in Nashville at Cafe Coco. Gradually we're working our way west! As soon as we figure out where we packed the camera we'll start posting tons of pictures too. . .

Well, we sure have had an interesting finish to this tour. . .last night we got Chris up on his feet long enough to play at Bell's Brewery in Kalamazoo, MI. It's a great venue and we had been looking forward to playing there for quite a while. It was also great to see that we'd be sharing the weekend with another Asheville-based band.
This morning Chris finally decided to go to the doctor about his fever he'd been running for almost a week. Turns out, he rocked out last night with pnemonia in one lung, so we're hanging out in the hospital for a few days until that clears up. We'll both be healthy and chipper when we head out for our summer tour in a few weeks-we're both looking forward to that!

We've been having (mostly) a great time winding up the Northeast part of this tour. In Bethlehem, PA last Thursday we took over the airwaves on WDIY chatting with Little George and then rocked out the Wildflower Cafe with Michael and Tamara Fritz. The next day we drove a short little jaunt into Philly to play at Fergie's before taking Memorial Day Weekend off (just wondering: how can you have a "day weekend"?)
It's a good thing we had a little time off because Chris has unfortunately been under the weather the past few days and we're trying to get him in tip-top shape for the end of this tour. We unfortunately had to cancel tonight's show at the Melody Inn to try to get him to rest some, but we'll be back in Indy on August 5th--looking forward to seeing all you Hoosiers then!

We had so much fun in Jamaica Plain tonight. Midway was a great dive-y little music venue--perfect for a Wednesday night. So good to see some folks we met at the beginning of this tour from Jo Henley Thanks to Harry for snapping this picture and posting it!

We've been enjoying New England for the past few days; we're both totally in love with southern Vermont! After playing the Turn of the Tide music series on Sunday and enjoying some delicious potluck dinner that accompanied it, we left for Portland. On the way, we dropped by VT's infamous Long Trail Brewery on our day off and enjoyed the local fare. I enjoyed six [small] different types of local fare. Also on the way, we saw some amazing lawn ornaments.

Last night's show in Portland, ME was great-we'll be back in August. It's amazing how similar Portland is to Asheville; it felt remarkably like home.

Here's some more proof of our shenanigans in NYC and Brooklyn-thanks to Steve for the shot of us at Goodbye Blue Monday and to Danielle for posting the video. Scroll down to about a week ago for the whole story on why we were playing on the streets of Manhattan in front of our vehicle. . .

We have been so busy having fun the last few days that I've got some catching up to do. . . We enjoyed playing and being in Brooklyn; the show was fantastic and we had a very enthusiastic audience. After spending the night in the city, we actually got to drive through and see the city during the daytime.

We drove across the Brooklyn Bridge on our way out of town
and drove right through Manhattan.
The bridge to the left is the Manhattan Bridge and the bridge to the right is the Brooklyn Bridge.
We got to see both Yankee Stadiums at the edge of town. 
We made it to Providence a little early on Friday and were able to take a leisurely stroll around the downtown before we played at Tazza. We rocked out till the wee hours and then knocked out part of the drive to Montpelier. On Saturday morning we played on WGDR then took a little nap before heading to Langdon Street Cafe.  
We love playing in Montpelier and were glad to get a chance to play for such a great audience--we'll see you all at the Northeast Kingdom Music Festival this August!