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well, i admit this probably concludes my longest blog silence in my myspace history......thank you guys for being patient---

I'm currently out on tour with my friend Dave Barnes.....we're doing about 30 shows over the course of 35 days.....pretty jam packed. we're about 1/4 of the way into the tour at this point.....I'm sitting in a Hampton Inn Lobby at 2:20am......

I was planning on knocking out the rest of my taxes tonight, but decided to just do the extension thing.......I'm a procrastinator about certain things---taxes is definitely one of them. I welcome any and all emails from CPAs that want to help a brother out.

So let's see---what's new.......

I taught my iPhone how to play drums on one of my songs, so I've been trying that out at my shows.....adding a little techno element to the AD catalog I guess.....I named my phone Charles Douglas Davis, for the sake of having a name......"Give it up for Charlie!" sounds better than "Give it up for phone!"

Also, I built this awesome box/stand for my keyboard to make it look like an actual upright piano when I play shows. Unfortunately, Dave's band voted it out of our trailer, since it was so large and awkward to pack. So when they swung through nashville last week, they dropped it off. So if you saw it on the road on the first few shows of the tour, please tell everyone else how awesome it was.

This past week was my birthday. Yes, I have a week-long birthday---my mother was in labor for an entire week, so I celebrate all week long.

That's not actually true---however, I did weigh 10lbs10.5ounces when I was born. Yikes. when I bowl I usually use the 10pounder, and I can't imagine having that thing inside me.

Weird. Ok, sorry bout that rant

But.......for my bday I got to fulfill a lifelong dream---I went to the Masters!! It was only for the practice round and part 3 tournament, but still, I got to sit right behind Tiger Woods on the practice range, and got to be a few feet away from Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, and Jack Nicklaus as they teed off.....listening over their shoulder as they talked about what they had for dinner last night....about their new grandkids....pretty amazing. I don't really get starstruck with most celebs, but with pro golfers I'm a little bit fluttery inside......

Actually, side note on the Masters.....I played a show in New Orleans on Tuesday night, immediately got into a rental car and drove 10hours through the night to be in Augusta at 8am, ready to walk around the course for 8 hours in the hot sun. Let's just say I slept well that night.

Another side note: when I arrived at Augusta, I had about 30minutes to spare, so I tried to lay back in the driver's seat and take a quick nap. Unfortunately, I kept dreaming that I was falling asleep at the wheel, and would wake up with an intense adrenaline rush grabbing the steering wheel and hitting the brakes. Not a fun feeling.

Well, I'll be checking in more often now---it's good to see a lot of you guys at shows thus far---check the sched and come on out if we're headed near ya---

I'll leave you with a little video from the road. We try to eat really healthy on the road....as much as we can.....but sometimes there are side effects.