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Day 6 of WTR: Memphis 2
You may have noticed that it’s taken a while for any postings to get onto this site. The truth of the matter is: I’ve been trying to post All of the voluminous videos in chronological order. However, with all of the editing required (and due to the lightning speed of events during the past few days,) I’ve not been able to keep up so well. I sincerely apologize for all delays.
I’m about to finish up with packing and get set to take the train out of Memphis to head back to Chicago. As you may or may not have seen with the videos thus far, it has been an Ah-Ma-Zing tour! I couldn’t be happier with the glorious results. WTR is constantly making forward progress: For me, for the team and for the cause that WTR may represent.
In short, to include the cash, check donations, made possible with the kickstart of the puppet sales from Tortoise and Panda, along with the 20 CDs that D Kav donated to staff, volunteers, parents and patients of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Writing The Rails: Memphis 2 raised a total of $550!
I can’t thank all of YOU enough for your never-ending support. MUST thank Joanna Quargnali-Linsley and Nancy Dunbar-McGovern (they make up Tortoise and Panda,) Rich and Suzanne Varnon for their wonderful hospitality and generosity while staying in Memphis (once again,) Leslie Jo and the entire Cornell family in Mattoon, IL for letting me stay at their place last Friday night. MANY thanks to Aaron Wilson, Beau Tatum and the crew at The Local Motive Hour on 89.9 FM The Max Alternative in Mattoon for having me on the air the day of the Common Grounds show. I also want to thank the boss of Common Grounds for letting the show happen on Friday, April 16, 2010. I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank the incredible talent that showed up last Friday night to the Common Grounds Massive Jam (to include:) Jenna Jackley, Taylor Wagner, Jeremy McConnaha (& Ethan backing him up on the cajon,) AJ Schubert, and to everyone else I may have forgotten at CG; Many thanks to Lissette and the crew at Aroma Cafe for (once again) providing WTR with an awesome venue to kick off Writing The Rails during the Boneyard Arts Festival last week. I have to truly thank Justin Rondon for agreeing to open the show for me last Thursday as well (Justin, you have a lot of promise. Keep jamming!) Thanks to the folks at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Carbondale for letting me live there for a few hours and for “Crashing their Wi-Fi” while I uploaded videos (I had no place to go. It meant a LOT to me!) Many thanks to Mike from Mike’s Music in Carbondale for your hospitality, advice and help. Want to thank Jessica at the Carbondale Amtrak station for the time you took to speak to me LATE LATE at night, for listening to me ramble about WTR and for not thinking me (too) creepy. ;) I wanna congratulate and thank the folks at The Edge Coffeehouse Open Mic: Mike Dees, Emily Barnhart, David Hawkins, Robert Moore, along with the incredibly talented Josh Pruitt (dude, “Burn It Down” rocked my face!!!)
Last, but not least, I have to ESPECIALLY thank the awesome musicians that came in from Chicago Solely for the Sun Studios recording. You folks, Kat Fitzgerald and Rev. Billy Simmons, along with Rich Varnon and his Memphis-fried/Kenny Wayne Sheperd sound, added JUST the right flavor to the songs (and it has to take an Incredibly talented crew to lay down 3 solid songs in just 2 hours! Folks, you WILL hear about these tracks soon! Stay tuned!) My eternal thanks to James Lott from Sun Studios for letting us all record that night and to Matt, our extremely talented engineer, for knowing how to handle us in those two hours. We ALL had such a blast!!! (Look for video footage within the next week, folks. Yep. It’s gonna get hairier for me as soon as I get back to Chicago.)
Ok. Train is tentatively scheduled to leave in 90+ minutes. However, still a LOT to get done. Rich and Suzanne, and the rest of Memphis, you will be missed, once again. However, it won’t be long until I see all of you again in August (that’s right. More to come on that tour.)
Next tour scheduled for Boston in late June 2010. I was about to release the information. However, I need to finalize details. Stay tuned.
Until next time, Memphis (and my eternal thanks and gratitude to you once again,)
Peace, love, music, laughter and life,
D Kav
p.s Much MUCH more videos to come (haven’t even Started on the FB page: www.facebook.com/writingtherailstour. For FB, I’ll probably upload one video a day. I’ll attempt to, anyway.) Thanks. :)
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