Posts from ‘June, 2012’

Major League

What Is It About Baseball?

What is it about Baseball? It threads us together. Our passions. Our childhood memories. Our children. We share it. We play it. We can mark our time here by the ups and downs of it. Once again, Baseball is a big part of our Northeast tour. Stopping in Cooperstown to play a house concert for [...]

The Great Upstate

I can’t really think of a better way to start a visit to upstate NY than pizza and beer. We met the boys at our friends the Colvin’s house when we all arrived outside of Rochester on Thursday night. I awoke to Mystiqueros sprawled all over the house. What must the neighbors think of the [...]

Hey Hey the Gang’s All Here

It was actually kind of hard to leave Knoxville. I’m really beginning to love that whole area. We ended our Tennessee time with a stop at WDVX in downtown Knoxville for The Blue Plate Special radio show. This radio station is an exceptional example of good radio. They listen to and serve their community and [...]

BBQ, Bluebirds and Fireflies

If there is anything you may have learned about me from past tours it’s that I LOVE to eat in Memphis. We went straight to Central BBQ when we pulled into town on Friday. There is no better way for me to say hello to one of my favorite southern cities than a pork plate [...]

Rainy Nights and Louisiana Begonias

I really thought that our old buddy Brad Hines was crazy when he said we should go ahead and play our show outside at the Love Shack in the Fort Worth Stockyards……  in the rain. The stage is covered so we’d be fine but what about people who might want to sit and listen? We [...]

Off we go….

In the van riding up to Fort Worth to kick off this summer’s MQ East Coast Tour with our good friend Brad Hines at the Love Shack. WW, Jimmy Daddy, and I will be rollin through Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina before heading up to Rochester to meet the rest of the boys [...]