And Into the South

Today we left NE Ohio in the cool of the early morning, and we were Water-Pump-Enabled. Beautiful.

We made the drive down I-77 to Charlotte NC in a long eight hours regularly spotted with merges into one lane and stops at desolate gas stations. But we were accompanied by a couple episodes of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Fresh Air... Oh the drama on the road. We'll graciously accept our NPR-nerd status. (Not uncommon among touring musicians...)

We arrived in the NoDa district of Charlotte and met up with Kyler England for our first shared night of the tour...
She introduced us to some of the kindest folks we've met in a while (our thanks to Dave and Trisha!), and we had our first experience of Cabo Fish Taco -- Which was amazing. I was in love with the Burrito Verde...

We're sitting in on Kyler's sets on this tour, so we took some time at the Muse to run through some tunes before the doors opened --
And meanwhile we noticed that a line was growing out the doors of the theater across the street and down the block, and that more and more folks were adding to it all the time.

It turns out that Nelly was playing right across the way. Did our crowds overlap? Did we draw fans from each others' show? One can't be sure. :)

We wound up with a delightful evening, a wonderful crowd... Such a privilege to perform in Charlotte again, and it's enormously fun to sing (and play) along with Kyler's songs; they're fabulous.

Strings Justin has broken so far on this tour: 2.

So... We keep hearing news about Hurricane Hanna making an appearance in NC while we're in the area on Saturday -- We'll keep you posted! We'll be inland in Raleigh but it has us curious. :)

Our thanks to Allison and Meghan for amazing hospitality in Charlotte-- (!)

And we're excited to return to Atlanta tomorrow for the first time in a long while.