Hearing "Me" on the radio is a Make-You-Smile-Moment

Wow! 2 nights in a row I've heard my music on the radio. When you're growing up with music in your soul you long for that day when you hear "you" on the radio. It's a real make-you-smile moment I have to say. Thanks Bill Hunt, aka Billy Blues, for spinning my version of Tumbleweed tonight on 90.9. I appreciate the love.  Doing music full time now gives me time to really work hard at it and hearing my music and the gracious comments on the radio is just a hoot!  Also, have you heard the radio spot for the festival yet?  That's so cool to hear that thing while driving down the road.  Life is good you know... 

On the radio and Live in Greensboro

In the WQFS studio

First of all, thanks Chris Roulhac for having me live on WQFS.  I had a blast and loved the experience.  I came in thinking I would play one song and maybe spin another and was very happy to play 3 and hear 2 more spinning.  I love you for it... mean it!  Your support always floors me.

Love my Lowebow Cigarbox!

Then it was off to Cafe Europa in uptown Greensboro for the kickoff party for the 25th annual Carolina Blues Festival.  It was so cool to play there for all the great blues fans in the area.  What a crowd! I honestly wish I could take you guys with me everywhere I go.  Once again at this show the cigarbox guitar was the big draw.  I couldn't believe all the pictures and videos folks were making, with so many of you taking pictures of just the cigarbox.  That's so cool.  It's such a fun instrument to play and I love the crowd reaction.

Many thanks the staff of Cafe Europa for all the help and support during the show.  It was perfect to play there and be able to look out the window and see the "big" stage that I'll be on for the festival on May 7th.  I can't wait  and hope I see you there.

Here's the Blues Festival poster, which was revealed yesterday:

Great Fun Night at Yianni's Friday Night...

Amber Ward (Randy's better  half)

Friday night was the debut night for my  LoweBow cigarbox guitar.  Man, it rocked.  Some of the comments from the crowd were kind of expected but good to hear.  "That thing sounds different than I expected... it's like a rock-and-roll smokin' guitar", "I couldn't wait to hear you play that thing... wasn't sure what it was but man, it sounds great", "What a show!".

I loved playing it and I agree... it rocks.  The sound is so unique and is in no way wimpy.  The guitar sound along with the deep, deep bass lines it produces are so cool.  I also enjoyed the modifications I've made to my Silvertone.  Adding the bass line sub-frequencies to that sound was awesome.  It gave me such a much fuller sound... don't know how to describe it.  But it was awesome.  I started the night out with an "unplugged" sound with my Takamine cedar top.  I still haven't figured out the mic'ing of this guitar. It's one of my favorites and I love playing her.  The sound unplugged is awesome. The sound plugged in is boomy and a little thin.  I'll keep working on it and try a few more things.  I'm now leaning towards a G-Tar piezo split system for her... maybe soon...

Many of you guys responded to my Facebook invitation and showed up.  Randy and Amber drove all the way from Lake Norman to see me  and guys I really appreciate that.  Many of you from the Morganton area came out and I love the love.  Yianni's is such a different place to play.  It starts out light with folks eating all around the stage (which is kinda strange too with my back to most of the folks due to the way it faces the bar), then as the dinner crowd thins out and the bar crowd shuffles in there's an "almost rocking" time where I almost crank it up but still keep it a little calmer.  Then  the 3rd set is Katie bar the doors.  I like being able to show off some diversity of styles at this venue and love being there on the 1st Friday of every month.

This weekend I'm busy again with weddings, providing the music for a wedding reception in Columbia, SC.  Last week a couple of shows at Classics Bar and Grille were added.  One for April 22nd and one for July 2nd.