Morning guys,
Yeah quite the weekend. Before I do anything about me, I wanted to do something else:
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
As all of you know, I always have to represent THE BOOT, that has to come down when I feel people are walking into the walls myself and so many walk into daily. It is trying to save your friends from going through unessasary frustrations or conflict they don't really have to go through. but you can't always save people from themsevles and they have to go through some things just because we all have to go through it.
Having said that, I also love to celebrate when people do well. for that, I am giving a shout out to JARROD NICHOLS, my lawyer/client from Birmingham, who got me to bring a Nashville 'tour" to him. Since I was going to B'ham any way for the show Saturday, he just got me to come in a day early, work with him two days, got me a nice hotel room,even gave Tina some great bathroom hardware for something she is getting down the line. A really great gesture and greatly appreciated.
But the main thing I want to comment on is how far he has come musically in a couple of months. When we started working, his songs were kind of all over the place, no real structure, lumbering, negative, angry,or just really too poetic to understand. The second trip was much better structure, and he had gotten away from negativity. Then this time he is starting to play out on some more higher level writer's nights, and the attention is going to be harder.
The songs he is doing now are more to the point, (although they tend to still be one subject all over and over, girls), but he is doing a much better job. Not a Jedi yet, but it is night and day, from where he came from. I know he will keep at it and get to the next level. He is doing very well. Congratulations Jarrod. Check back in and let us hear from you.
MAB