Nashville to Memphis
Well, it rained hard all morning and thunderstorm rolled in around 11 am when we went to get our coffee and breakfast so Nashville didn’t really get a chance to redeem itself. Maybe it didn’t want me there. Maybe we’ll have to go back and try again some time. Everybody deserves a second chance right? We went to a place called Frothy Monkey at the suggestion of my cousin and the coffee was in fact frothy and there was a monkey in it. Ok maybe there wasn’t a monkey in my coffee but it was very good. Until next time Nashville.
We drove through torrential rains for about forty five more minutes but when it cleared up it got HOT. And here’s the bad news. We’re headed southwest for the rest of this trip. And here’s the worse news. There’s no AC waiting for us at home in LA. It’s gonna get bad. We made it to Memphis today though, We had a very good dinner at SOB and then walked around Beale St. and went down to the Mississippi River until the heat defeated us. We’ll try again in the morning but it’s going to be about 93 degrees by 9 am and we have about 7 hours in the car. The majority of the rest of the trip may just be about getting home.
On the business front, The New Hippies have a song coming out tomorrow, which is another one that I love. We’ve also been getting a bunch of emails and DMs from people who have heard songs from one of our acts and want to offer services related to digital marketing and Spotify promotion and things like that. On the one hand it’s encouraging because people are starting to hear the music, but I’m a little weary of people trying to take our money for minimal returns. It’s a difficult game. The company we’ve hired now is likely partly responsible for these people reaching out but I’m not sure how much of step up any of these companies are and to be honest, I’m not sure we got the results I was hoping for in this first run. We’ll put a little more focus on that when we get back to LA though. I’m also preparing for what is going to be the most grueling part of the year in terms of recording/writing/producing video/and focusing our attention to our last act of the year. It’s the last push, and it’s definitely going to be the most challenging so far.
Into the fire.
-J.P.