We Are Home

We are home ladies and gentleman. I know that I say THANK YOU a lot, and I mean it  a lot, even when people thank me, I normally say "thank you", instead of  "you're welcome". Thank you not only to everyone we met on the leg of this tour, but truly THANK YOU to EVERYONE we met the last tour and the tour before that, THANK YOU to the people that have been HERE since day ONE! THANK YOU for the ONES that are reading this right NOW. THANK YOU to EVERYONE and EVERYTHING, it has brought US exactly to right NOW, THIS VERY MOMENT.
And this very moment we are back home, trying to charge our batteries, if only for a second, before we hit the road again, and head SOUTH, this time to TEXAS!
But, before we go any further in TRUE BEARD'S EYE VIEW fashion, we gotta fill you in on the final night of our TOUR in LARCHWOOD, IOWA.

As we left Kansas City, and got closer to our last spot before we stopped HOME, the scenery started to look at little more familiar, big skies, mostly gray in the winter, open prairies, speckled with trees throughout, we were getting close to home. Except we didn't see much snow.
Our last spot was in Larchwood Iowa, which is pretty close to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We played the EVENT CENTER at the GRAND FALLS RESORT AND CASINO.
www.grandfallscasinoresort.com

In keeping with the tradition of this tour, this is the room that many of the people that have added a chapter or two to the history of music played, plays, or is going to play in this room. I grew up listening to KOOL 108, which was actually 107.9. We got asked to sign the wall, and we look at the wall and it's B.B. King, Michael McDonald,  the Guess Who, REO Speed Wagon, Grand Funk Railroad, WAR, Charlie Daniels Band, it was crazy. They've even had Bob Newhart. I share these names, only to share a dream coming true and in a HUGE  way none of it would be possible without YOU.
Every piece plays a part. THANK YOU.

In keepin with "Tradition" we loaded our gear onto the stage, but this time folks our BAND morphed and transformed for this gig. DebraG went to participate in what is becoming an annual tradition in Minneapolis;  HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANIS, where a bunch of the TWIN CITIES LEADING LADIES get TOGETHER and pay Tribute to the ONE and the ONLY MISS JANIS JOPLIN!

We met up with our rhythm section too 

folks. "we're getting the band back together"  We were joined by Mike Cini on the drums, Johnnie Timm on the bass and Timmy Carrow on the keys. It was great to see them again, and before we knew it, it was SHOWTIME. 

Peace and many many Thanks to EVERYONE for YOUR SUPPORT. Thank you Thank you to Dan, Sharon, Cheryl, and everyone else at  Grand Falls Casino. Thanks to Trevor for helpin on monitors, Thanks Billy and everyone else doing the video and other audio. And a special Thank you to everyone who came out and shared your evening with us! We almost sold it out, they said "we haven't had this many people here since Miranda Lambert"

Truly folks, thank you for your LOVE and SUPPORT without it, none of this would be possible.

HEY NOW and HOLY, HOLY, HOLY BUCKETS!