Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Day 2 at the CMA Awards in Nashville

Don't know if we could ever top all the folks we ran into Monday night but yesterday turned out to be pretty cool, too. We had lunch with Gretchen Wilson who is very concerned as to what the next single from her forthcoming album will be. She played 5 cuts (three of which were very "Redneck Woman-like") and was really interested in what we thought. She has grown alot more comfortable with these meetings and now really understands that it's going to take alot of communication to get to the level she had been several years back.
Hung out with Taylor Swift for a short time. Proving that she's still a teenager, through all of the pictures and people chasing after her, she compliments my wife on her eye makeup and asks if she (my wife) can teach her how to do her (Taylor's) eyes that way. She is still VERY grounded considering all this attention, especially this week.
Spoke with Keith Anderson and he is VERY excited about headlining our Winterblast on January 24th. Phil Vassar was his usual energetic self. It was good to see Jessica Andrews getting back into the swing. Danielle Peck has a new label deal and she told us that she was going to be coming back our way for an acoustic lunch sometime soon.
Tonight - it's the awards show AND all the "after-parties"...you can be sure you'll hear about them here tomorow.

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