February 26, 2003 Nashville, TN Hi Folks, Once again, much has transpired since my last correspondence so let me bring you up to date. I left Houston headed for Nashville. I made my way across Louisiana into Mississipi when I started hearing some noise coming from the area of my front tires. I figured my brakepads were wearing or a wheel bearing was about to go. I stopped for gas and was pleased to find the station was also a restaurant serving fresh crawfish. So I parked the car and went in for a plateful of that Cajun specialty. There was an article on the wall about how the owner had expanded the garage into a restaurant. I ordered my meal and told Frank, the owner, about my car troubles and he said "let me take it for a ride." Now I hesitated for a moment since my life is packed into every nook and cranny of that car, but how can a man who cooks crawfish and pumps gas at the same time be dishonest? So I handed him the keys and prayed I wouldn't be hitchhiking back to Massachusetts. Well, he pulled back a few minutes later and says it's either your brakes or a wheel bearing. We put the car on the lift and discovered my front brakes were indeed done. He put one of his guys to work on it and I went in and finished my lunch. And so it was in the little town of Cary, Mississippi, I stopped for gas, but also got lunch, brakes and a heapin' helpin' of southern hospitality. I moved on to Clarksdale, MS which is the home of Delta Blues. I stayed at a place called The Shack Up Inn which is billed as Mississippi's oldest B&B, Bed and Beer that is. This place is so cool. It is an inn that is made up of old sharecropper's shacks. You have a shack to yourself and it has the feel of the early 1900s. The atmosphere is rustic and relaxing. If you're high maintenance, don't bother going. Now, I'm heading back to Nashville for a reason. While I was working my way across the country I was contacted by a record company in Nashville, they asked me if I wanted to record with them on a project they were producing. It's an introductory CD that will feature myself and two other artists. So, I've spent the last two weeks in Nashville recording four new songs with Wild Oats Records. (www.wildoatsrecords.com) The CD will be released in June. Think I'm going to stay in Nashville for a while. What the heck, it beats working for a living.