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Welcome to the first installment of the October trip to the wet but not frozen north. Sorry it's not gonna be very informative, but i've been running way behind, and have only managed to steal a couple of minutes to get started.
Let's start with the drive up. It's been months since we saw rain in austin so naturally it was raining like hell the morning we left.....I figured no biggie, we'd just keep driving north and east, and get out of the weather eventually.
Wrong.
The weather front followed the same route we were on. So after a fourteen hour drive we stopped for the night in Nashville (woo hoo). We got back on the road the next morning and it was still raining. We drove another 14 hours and made Ithaca about 10:00 pm Tuesday. I dropped Michael off at a friends house and I went and spent the night with Jon and Terry.
I had an early show the next day in Morrisville, Vermont. I figured the drive up would take about 5 hours. However, I did my calculations without fully understanding the effect that Lake Champlain has on the geography. Northern Vermont was harder to get into than my first girlfriends bra. The drive took 8 hours not 5. I got to my gig with about an hour to spare, but I had figured on about 3 hours of lag time that I could use to start this blog.
Anyway, I was playing a little cafe called the Bees Knees....great place, good food, great people. The place was kinda small, so all the tables were full. It was a true acoustic show - no amp, no mic. I played a couple of hours and met some of the locals - Fred, who turned me on to a good local beer (not circus boy), and Paul. I gave Sharon Dietz some salsa I had brought up from Austin, and gave her a quick overview of how migas work. I'm completely confident that the next time I'm up there migas will be available on the menue.
I got rolled up and out a little bit before 11:00 pm, and spent the night in Stowe. I had figured on a nice easy drive back to Jon and Terry's the next day, but after having misjudged the distance and time for the trip up I decided to not monkey around. I hit the road at 5 am and got back home around 1:00pm.
Me and Michael Cerza had an early show at Burritt's Cafe in Weedsport NY that evening. Cafe gigs tend to be the bulk of the weekday shows. This place was the nazz tho, nice stage, nice PA and a decent amount of people. I met Darryl and Sharon, the owners. They've got a really cool set up there.
So show time, and I was feeling the effects of all those hours of driving, so it felt like being on xanax. But the crowd was sympathetic and seemed to have a goodtime. W e played a couple of sets and rolled up around 9:00.
Well that takes us to now, and I've left tons of stuff out. I'll add full details when I get back to Austin next week, but right now I have a rehearsal in Ithaca in an hour so. I'm out the door, I'll talk to ya'll soon.
Welcome to the first installment of the October trip to the wet but not frozen north. Sorry it's not gonna be very informative, but i've been running way behind, and have only managed to steal a couple of minutes to get started.
Let's start with the drive up. It's been months since we saw rain in austin so naturally it was raining like hell the morning we left.....I figured no biggie, we'd just keep driving north and east, and get out of the weather eventually.
Wrong.
The weather front followed the same route we were on. So after a fourteen hour drive we stopped for the night in Nashville (woo hoo). We got back on the road the next morning and it was still raining. We drove another 14 hours and made Ithaca about 10:00 pm Tuesday. I dropped Michael off at a friends house and I went and spent the night with Jon and Terry.
I had an early show the next day in Morrisville, Vermont. I figured the drive up would take about 5 hours. However, I did my calculations without fully understanding the effect that Lake Champlain has on the geography. Northern Vermont was harder to get into than my first girlfriends bra. The drive took 8 hours not 5. I got to my gig with about an hour to spare, but I had figured on about 3 hours of lag time that I could use to start this blog.
Anyway, I was playing a little cafe called the Bees Knees....great place, good food, great people. The place was kinda small, so all the tables were full. It was a true acoustic show - no amp, no mic. I played a couple of hours and met some of the locals - Fred, who turned me on to a good local beer (not circus boy), and Paul. I gave Sharon Dietz some salsa I had brought up from Austin, and gave her a quick overview of how migas work. I'm completely confident that the next time I'm up there migas will be available on the menue.
I got rolled up and out a little bit before 11:00 pm, and spent the night in Stowe. I had figured on a nice easy drive back to Jon and Terry's the next day, but after having misjudged the distance and time for the trip up I decided to not monkey around. I hit the road at 5 am and got back home around 1:00pm.
Me and Michael Cerza had an early show at Burritt's Cafe in Weedsport NY that evening. Cafe gigs tend to be the bulk of the weekday shows. This place was the nazz tho, nice stage, nice PA and a decent amount of people. I met Darryl and Sharon, the owners. They've got a really cool set up there.
So show time, and I was feeling the effects of all those hours of driving, so it felt like being on xanax. But the crowd was sympathetic and seemed to have a goodtime. W e played a couple of sets and rolled up around 9:00.
Well that takes us to now, and I've left tons of stuff out. I'll add full details when I get back to Austin next week, but right now I have a rehearsal in Ithaca in an hour so. I'm out the door, I'll talk to ya'll soon.
posted by Billy Eli at 10:30 AM
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