Casey Henry
This is the fourth in my series of tour blogs from the American Revival concerts. In order for you to make sense of them you’ll need to know this: The Dixie Bee-Liners are Brandi Hart (guitar, vocals), Buddy Woodward (mandolin), Rachel Johnson (fiddle), Jeremy Darrow (bass), Robin Davis (guitar), and myself Casey Henry on banjo.
Today was the only day on this tour that we played a second show in the same place. We rejoyced at the fact that we could leave our equipment at the theater and didn’t have to pack everything up. The cherry on top of this bit of wonderfulness was the time change. Falling back to standard time meant that we all got an extra hour of sleep (especially nice after our Halloween post-show martini bar excursion). More rejoycing.
We didn’t have to sound check (yay), so we arrived at the theater in plenty of time for the show and had a leisurely warm-up. We weren’t at all sure what kind of crowd we’d get for a Sunday matinee, especially during football season, but it was a decent turn out and everyone really seemed to enjoy the show. They would have given us a second encore, after our big group number at the end, but we don’t have anything else worked up! We’ll have to fix that.
After the show we all went out to supper at a local seafood restaurant/bar and stuffed ourselves on fish, shrimp, crab, and other water-dwellers, as well as no small amount of sweet potato fries (love those!). We three bands really enjoy each other’s company, so conversation was brisk and amusing. A relaxed supper, followed by a relaxing evening at the hotel and an eleven a.m. departure the next morning makes for happy, rested people.
Tonight’s show: The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA.