North Carolina Rhymer...Yazoo...Fair Food

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Friday August 23, 2024

 

Can it be the weekend already?  Yep…it’s Friday. Hotter here today in Nashville with a high of 91.

 

YESTERDAY

I wrote with young Larry Frick, a really good traditional country singer who lives in North Carolina online. He had his back to some beautiful countryside when he popped on my screen as he was out on the deck to take in some of the cooler weather we’ve both had lately. That’s about to change for some “hot” stuff again so I understood why he was sitting outdoors.

 

 

Larry lives on a farm that’s been in his family for 5 generations now. He’s the latest caretaker of the historic farm there in North Carolina. Pretty cool. He calls the place a work in progress but you can tell that it’s beautiful land that the old farmhouse sits on. And yesterday we didn’t fight against the grain…we wrote a “country” song to add to our little growing catalog. A morning well spent.

LAST NIGHT

I played a few songs at a local craft brewery named Yazoo for Freedom Sings USA with my buddy Steve Dean.

 

Beautiful evening but we had a few problems, word didn’t get out about what we were doing so the turnout was not enough to really do a show and provide education for the Chamber of Commerce folks that were to be there on the outdoor patio where we sat up.

 

 

So, we have rescheduled the event for Thursday night November 14…same place…6 pm start. So we knocked off early, and enjoyed the rest of the evening with a little of what Yazoo makes.

 

NEXT STOPS

That would be at Starstruck Farms in Lebanon, Tennessee with my “Hits & Grins” trio alongside Steve Dean and Victoria Venier. Dinner show…tickets are on sale right now for this August 31 show.

Then it’s  Marion, Illinois with Freedom Sings USA. That will be September 5, 6, and 7 with an outdoor concert in downtown Marion on that Saturday night to play the songs we wrote with veterans there on September 6. There will be a lot of red, white, and blue on display that night.  

 

W H Y T E

I’m told my family’s last name is Scottish. A lot of tombstones with Whyte on it in the graveyards over there. But this picture sent to me from my friend Randy Brooks who wrote “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” came from Dublin, Ireland!

 

Some kind of mercantile store it looks like. I was in Dublin a few years ago and missed it!  I may have spent a little too much time in the Guinness Factory with the family. Maybe.

 

I’ll go look for it the next time I’m on the Emerald Isle.

 

HEALTH NOTES

A type of drug being developed to combat cancer could be repurposed to treat Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages.

 

The FDA has approved new COVID shots for both Moderna and Pfizer.

 

Some doctors are now saying more people aged 65 and over should be on Ozempic.

 

DENTAL BALLOONS

Whatever you’re medical situation is…you get a free balloon when you walk out.

 

THEM AND US

Jeff Bezos…the Amazon Prime dude just bought his 4^th private jet. This one set him back 80 million dollars. 80 million. Chump change to him. The plane can almost go the speed of sound they say.

 

Proof again I suppose that his “same day delivery” to your door was a pretty good idea. 

 

 

STATE FAIRS

Ya gotta love Fair food right?

 

At a fair somewhere right now you can get pickle pizza, deep fried Twinkies or Oreos (in the south it’s all fried) AND this bad boy.

 

Yep…a Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger.

 

Wow…have one of those bad boys and you’ll be making a trip to that free balloon place I mentioned.

 

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

I Named My Daughter After A Piece Of Furniture And Have Major Regrets.  (Chest of Drawers though does have a nice feminine ring to it though)

 

TODAY

I’m writing with Katrina Burgoyne today who’s a new Mama trying to figure out how to balance family and music. She’s very busy doing both right now. Kat is from Australia originally…living here full time with her hubby and daughter and still finding time to write songs like this sassy number we penned together and still playing shows. The lifestyle of a creative person.

 

 

Then it’s the weekend and I’m going to enjoy not having anything on the books because it’s the lull before a storm of shows that will have me gone almost every weekend from next weekend all the way through the middle of November. Check my TOUR tab here on the website to see where I’ll be.

 

Have a great weekend!