Tree Beards A Plenty

March 30th-Savannah, GA

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Savannah is like a story book. Beautiful lush land with ancient tree canopies over the streets and the cute little southern houses all lined up with their own stories to tell. Blake appropriately refers to all the Spanish moss hanging from the trees  as "tree beards".

We got to town a little early and had to putz around town before we could check into our hotel. So we went to a huge music store and we bought Tekla a new tambourine with double jingles and raw hide for improved sound quality. I bought a mandolin and she's a beauty. I've been wanting to learn to play for awhile and I almost bought one in San Antonio, but I'm glad I waited because this little Epiphone mandolin is awesome and it already has a built in pick up. Moe has been helping me with some chords and I also downloaded a cool mandolin chord app for my ipod.  It even made it's on-stage debut tonight. I played "Ring of Fire" on the mandolin during our set and Blake played "Tricky Love" with Blvd Park which sounded really good with the banjo. 

We played at the Wormhole and at midnight it was officially 

Brian Ballentine's birthday! Cheers to him! 

Jimmy and Anthony met back up with us after a few days off the tour and they brought a whole gaggle of new friends with them.