Latest Updates

In Madison, Wisconsin today after doing the Praire Dog Blues Festival last night in Prairie Du Chien. Let me tell you - our entire day was rough. We started out having to deal with SW Airlines to get the check to rent another Norg. This put us two hours behind on travel to Prairie Du Chien. It just seemed a big "hurry up and wait" big azz moment which is no good for my PMS. Aaargh. We catch lunch. I have a cobb salad sans bacon with added salmon. A $12 to-go satisfactory meal. By 2PM we are ready and head out of Kansas City, KS, only to travel through an intense rain storm.

It's Friday and I'm nursing a callus from tambourine playing in Kansas City, KS last night. Crossroads was the venue. We opened for Lucero & The Old 97's. Our homie, rock n roll neophyte, EJ Norris is with us. Before I give u the drama let me say that this tour has been good. More settled and without a RM, there's little room for error so it seems that only the van is our concern. The A/C went out the day we left and it was a sweatfest but we moved forward, rocked St. Louis and had the A/C sort o' fixed. The Old Rock Hose n St. Louis is an official JTNL hot spot!

We have survived our Midwest summer 2010! It's Thursday and we are on our way to Amarillo to finish things up. Last night we played Black Sheep in Colorado Springs. It was a glorified rehearsal. No one was there. Well, maybe three people outside of the staff. Moments like these are humbling and angst invoking all at once. The sound system here is bad ass however. Our show at the Bud Light Summer Nights festival turned out to be a hit. We were the only band and we brought out JTNL magnetism. We did two sets and JT made the cover of the Vail daily the next day!

June 30 was yesterday and so was our show in Bozeman, Montana. We had load in at 7pm for a 10pm set start, but as is our way of rolling on the 'if something is to go wrong' theory...it did. We decided to leave the hotel at 5:30 or so. Ironically, that's when the rain clouds rolled in and started to bring the pain of Mother Nature. A hail storm of a rather violent nature rolls thru, knocks 20 windows out of other hotel rooms and wreaks havoc on the town. By the time we arrived at the Filling Station we weren't sure if we'd have an audience at all.