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Being on the road is my absolute favorite thing in the world to do. The shows, the travel, the community...it doesn't get any better. For those of you who have never done anything like this before, here is a handy look at the life I love!

A Beginners Guide to My Road Routine:

Morning?: Your morning, and therefore your day, starts about an hour before your alarm clock goes off. This is when you start to half-sleep, half worry about whether the front desk is going to remember your wake up call and whether your back up alarm on your phone was properly set to "am" instead of "pm" time. However, no matter how prepared you think you are for that alarm to sound, the phone rings it's awful horror movie ring and you're begging for more sleep. You realize, though, that you've set you're alarm for the last possible second so there is no snooze button.

Week 3 of The Spill Canvas tour? I think it's week 3. I'm dedicating this BLOG to all the new music I'm getting turned onto this tour and for those Trackers out there needing to know a little more about the other bands I'm traveling with. First! New Politics are a Danish band who just moved to Brooklyn not even a year ago. David and Søren were writing songs for other people forever until finally they decided to start a band and I think got signed right away to RCA? I think that's their label. Anyway, I figured these dudes had some experience writing because although their show comes off like some punk kids who don't give a shit (they actually probably don't). Their songwriting is so full of hooks I can't imagine them working at a office and using this band as just a release, you know? Every song in their set is well crafted and super catchy, but the only one for sale is called "Yeah Yeah Yeah." It'll be stuck in your head soon enough. They have a record out in June I think.

My EP "Ladies and Gentlemen" is out and for sale on iTunes! Waaaaaahoooooooo!!!! With it's release I'm here, there and everywhere saying hey, playing songs, signing things, and having an all around good time. The first week of promo is already done. Hung at a radio station in NY and met with some folks who might wanna use some of my tunes for a commercial or two. Also did some on air interviews for some NY TV networks and played the EP release show at the Canal Room where we SOLD OUT of EP's! Damn! You are a hungry bunch of Storm Trackers.

After New York I zig zagged around Wisconsin and Illinois visiting radio stations and pumping up everything going on. A lot of the DJ I knew from the last record so there was a lot of "here we go again!"

Now? Heading to Iowa for the first night with Spill Canvas on what's gonna be a really rowdy way to start this touring year!

Storm Trackers! (This is what I'm affectionately calling you from this point forward...or until you earn another great nickname). You'll be pleased to know that this band of mine is primed and ready to take our show on the road! I'm gonna try and grab a few of them to chat with you Friday on the web cast. We played our second show of all the new songs last week for my label. We had a margarita/taco hang in the courtyard of the offices and played live for all the crazy folks who have decided I'm still worth working with. I think they enjoyed themselves!

So we're dry cleaning, ironing, washing, packing, shaving and preparing for you now; our favorite critics. It’s a good thing we’ve got this week to relax too cause I was in New Orleans the weekend before Easter for The Ezra Open. Me + New Orleans = :P. My good friends in Better Then Ezra throw a killer charity bowling tourney and concert that I just couldn't miss this year.