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Day 14 – Darwin to Nashville
Friday 5th. July 2013 Actually managed to get a decent sleep in and went to breakfast at Nashville Biscuit House. There was a queue. Had a regular B&E with the biscuits and gravy on the side. The gravy is like creamy potato-mush with pepper, and the biscuit is what Australians call a scone. Didn’t go…
Read MoreDay 13 – Darwin to Nashville
Thursday 4th. July 2013 Paul dropped me off at East Park for the Hot Chicken Festival. On the way we checked out the house were Jesse James hid for months. Caught the Shelby Bottom String Band who were whippin’ up a bluegrass sound to my delight. It was raining mildly but the attendance was good…
Read MoreDay 12 – Darwin to Nashville
Wednesday 3rd. July 2013 Breakfast at a coffee house just around the corner. Plane to Nashville. Feeling like I’m not ready to leave this great town. Fluked the extra leg room plus my guitar as carry on! Back in Gartland Street, Nashville I caught up with hosts Paul – and Janet who is looking well…
Read MoreDay 11 – Darwin to Nashville
Tuesday 2nd. July 2013 Breakfast at Envie again. Did some playing and French Market souvenir shopping. Mikey & Gretta did the Air Boat swamp tour and looked at alligators. Gretta crook. Met Mikey for a cab ride uptown to the Maple Leaf for more second line stuff. Met Australian girls Alanna and Talya. Had a…
Read MoreDay 10 – Darwin to Nashville
Monday 1st. July 2013 Breakfast at Envie with hangy. Met Mikey and Gretta at the French Markets for extensive but lazy wandering and shopping. Absinthe Bar for beer and heard a student brass band rehearsing up the lane. Home for a shower and cat nap which didn’t happen. Chatted with Brandon and played his $300…
Read MoreDay 9 – Darwin to Nashville
Sunday 30th. June 2013 This could possibly be the peak day in the arc of gigs and drinking on this trip. Brunch at Buffa’s. Brandon (my host) plays upright in Some Like It Hot. Great trad with a Bloody Mary and a standard B&E. The Bloody Mary has the usual plus olives, beans, pickled ochra…
Read MoreDay 8 – Darwin to Nashville
Saturday 29th. June 2013 I used the word “burnout” in the last blog and some of you expressed concern. I’m grateful for your words of encouragement and have decided that a more accurate description is “inspirational sabbatical”, although that verges on tautology. Taut spotting is one of my favourite past-times. The most common one I…
Read MoreDay 7 – Darwin to Nashville
Friday 28th. June 2013 Southwest 3297 – Nashville to New Orleans Zip – I’m there. The ride from the airport seemed fairly normal but once I got in the hood of my new abode, things started looking innarestin’. Got the key from the secret hiding place in the letterbox, dumped the pack and headed straight…
Read MoreDay 6 – Darwin to Nashville
Thursday 27th. June 2013 Breakfast At Bongo Coffee House – espresso, orange juice and mushy tuna toastie with an all important side of Wi-Fi. After laundry duties Mikey & Gretta lobbed and we had a sunset walk to Holland House for dinner – catfish & salad, cocktails. We quizzed the waitress about famous people –…
Read MoreDay 5 – Darwin to Nashville
Wednesday 26th. June 2013 Met up with Michael Davis and Gretta on Broadway. Mikey is over here with an Australian band (Born ‘n Bred) doing some gigs. They’re signed to a Nashville label and my band The Two Few did a guest spot for them in January back in Australia at the Tamworth Country Music…
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