"January" in the key of Florida

This last week had the band migrating south with all the snowbirds for a string of five shows in Florida ending in Key Largo. January in swim trunks= fantastic!
My journey was recorded in images. And since a picture is worth a thousand words, this will be my longest blog ever.


Fort Myers just before dusk.


Late night rock and roll fuel. (I know- gross. But it was open and within waking distance and in my book 2 out of 3 ain't bad)


Treasures from a Naples beach.


Oberved...


...and imitated.


Josiah and Miami beach.


Not our hotel.


Tiny crab


Manatees love drinking fresh water from the hose.


He said thanks before drifting off.


Soaking up rays in route to an isolated island.


Mangroves.


Not a shark.


Isolation, Key Largo


We made this one last friend before heading home. He was pretty chill...until Josh tried to pick him up.

On our way back to Charlotte now, sweatshirt in hand.
-Scott

-Posted from my iPhone

The Write Stuff

After a long snowy trip to Missouri last week, Josiah and I hopped in a car and drove to Nashville to work on some new music. Our trip consisted of three solid days of writing and cutting demos of new songs. A little early to be preparing for the next Philmont record says you? No says I!
We worked with some Nashville based writers doing writing sessions to try and land some big-ol radio hits and I feel we came up with some cool stuff. Writing sessions are always fun and challenging. It's where we meet up with another writer and throw ideas and each other and work together to come up with a song. It's interesting to learn about other people's writing techniques and to get some fresh perspectives on our song ideas.
After a long day of writing we would head back to our buddy Matt's house and cut demos of songs we brought with us. Matt's a long time friend of the band (our very first bass player), Josiah's college roommate and newly wed Nashville-based music producer.
The trip was as productive as it was exhausting- we're planning another for early February.

The first post (not counting that other first post)

No matter what city I'm in I always seem to find myself in a mall- the irony here being that I can't afford to actually ever buy anything more extravagant than a food court pretzel. This week's trip to Joplin, MO was a rare exception though. Many of the stores in this particular mall were going out of business and liquidating their stock.
I spent a good 30 minutes digging through a dying bookstore's pile of last-minute mark downs. (had there been a shattered front window I would have been convinced this place was the aftermath of looters---rioting bookworms)
In keeping with my 2010 resolution to read more I bought the old classic "All Quiet on the Western Front". I read this book (or atleast some extensive Cliff Notes) back sometime during my formal schoolin' and as I recal I liked it. So here's to round two!

This trip also brought about another bad trailer tire blow out:



The only thing that sucks more than changing a flat on the side of a busy highway is doing it while you kneel in snow.
Double-axil trailer discussions are now taking place so we can avoid the above disaster as well as this:



and this:



not to mention this:



Yeah- it's been a rough year for our little trailer!

Josiah and I will be in Nashville for the next four days doing some writing sessions and cutting some new demos. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm hoping the days are just as productive as they are exhausting- I'll keep you posted.
-Scott


- Posted from my iPhone