Blue Sky Riders

I thought I had done the strangest, most chaos inspiring gig in Palm Springs a few weeks ago. It’s taken me till now to recover and pick the lock on the woodshed. Apparently there was plenty of weird to come. I am sitting in Santa Cruz, CA after a show that, quite frankly, made our last show seem like a Carnegie Hall teamsters show. (more…)

There are certain ways of being “funny” that ensure that you spend the rest of your life answering questions like “Are you being funny?” or “Was that a joke?” There is no “funny font” on a computer. Sarcasm doesn’t come color-coded so it jumps off the page and warns you that the writer thinks he is smarter than he really is. (more…)

I like being ignorant. I don’t mean that in an indictment of the US educational system sort of way. When I tour I like to stay stupid. I am a musical cow. Following the herd. I want the barest of essentials of information. When do I get up? Ummmm… basically that’s it. I guess what time my plane leaves is in there somewhere but it kind of folds into the whole “when do I get up” question. How many days are we gone so I can figure out how many black T shirts I need to bring with me. From that point it’s all instinct. My car knows the way to the airport apparently, ’cause I find myself there with great regularity. From my peripheral vision I catch sight of a large object with spots on it. Some guy grabs my guitar and I follow him into the large spotted vehicle. (more…)

On Monday, March 10th, Blue Sky Riders joins Kenny Chesney, Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw, Sheryl Crow & Jake Owen at the T.J. Martell Foundation’s 6th Annual Nashville Honors Gala – at the Omni Hotel in Nashville, TN!

The T.J. Martell Foundation is the music industry’s largest foundation that funds innovative medical research focused on finding cures for leukemia, cancer and AIDS. The Foundation sources and supports early-stage research projects aimed at developing more effective clinical treatments for patients which otherwise might not be funded.

Tickets are available at www.tjmartell.org