What a week

Wow, the first of our four weeks here is done and the second began this afternoon.  400 amazing campers were here and now 450 new ones are running an obstacle course outside.  It is craziness, but it's been wonderful.

The girls are having a great time meeting everybody and getting to dress like cowgirls and seeing skits.  Alison and I are enjoying making new friends involved with YoungLife in other parts of the country.  Really some amazing people.

And it was a blast this week getting to know the campers that were here.  I shared some of my life story throughout the week, as well as a song every night, and a few kids found me to talk about ways our stories were similar.  I was really honored and grateful to have those few minutes of conversation.  I don't know if I said anything wise or inspiring, but I hope just being there to talk with was good.  I know sometimes I just need to have somebody to stand with me for a minute and understand what I'm going through.

Anyway, it was a very tiring, but powerful week.  I'm going to hurry up and get to bed so I can have energy for tomorrow.

And to any of you guys who were here this week who found my site:  Thank you!!  I hope the week was truly wonderful.   It was a real pleasure getting to serve you.  Hope to see you again soon.

These sunglasses.  Miley, Bieber, N'Sync songs.  You know I'm at YoungLife camp.

It's been amazing so far, the girls are having a great time.  But, dear sweet Lord, I am tired.

I'll try to take some better pics this week and post them soon.

I've also played "Ball Game" and "I'm On Your Side", which has gone awesome.  Tonight I'll play "Swing Wide" and then will jump into the new songs.

Up the mountain

Some beautiful ladies and I are leaving Denver, heading up to Frazer. This car is more packed than a Backstreet Boys concert in 2001. Two hours, the map says. Here we go!

Westward Bound

Day two of new website. Day one of my family's five week trip to Colorado.

Alison and the girls flew out to Denver first thing this morning. I dropped them off at the airport, and immediately headed for Kansas City. I'll be playing a show there tonight.

Tomorrow it's on to Omaha, to play another show, then head to Denver to meet up with my family.

Then we go to camp.

Thank you so much for all the kind comments, and the donations, for the new free songs. I can't tell you how much it means.

Well, time to get back on the road. As it stands I'll get to tonight's venue less than an hour before I play. If you're near Kansas city I'd love to see you tonight!

Welcome to my new site!

As Keith Richards once said, in a televised concert I was watching because I was really bored one night in some Houston hotel, "It's good to be here.  Heh, it's good to be anywhere!"

Well, it sure is good to be on this new site.  My last one was getting pretty rough.  Not being able to edit major portions of it myself, it just got outdated.  These days, I spend as much or more time in the studio, producing, playing or writing as I do on my own artist career, so I really wanted a site that would incorporate all of that.

Hopefully, this will accomplish that goal much better.

And I would have had this site up by Friday, as I hoped, except that, last minute, I got on the guest list for Conan O'Brien's rock show (?) at Jack White's Third Man Records building.  The photographer who took this picture was directly to my right.  The show was more random and more awesome than this picture captures.

Well worth missing an arbitrary website deadline.

But, I have been working on it for a couple months now, and I'm pretty stoked about it.  Believe it or not, I did it all myself.  That's why it's really simple.  And why I'm asking you to feel free to beta test this sucker.  Click around, enjoy, tell me if you find any errors or bugs or anything.  Or if you have any ideas of other things you'd like to see.

And most of all, thanks for stopping by, for listening to my music, for caring enough to support me and my family.  You guys are awesome.

Hope you like the new site.