I just got an email from Bret reminding me and all of us NMP Members to log in and check in and stay active.  Guilty as charged!  It made me think about myself, the State of the Music Business, Social Networking sites in general and this one in particular.

This is different from Facebook, MySpace (aka Free Band Webpage Space), Linked In, etc.  This is for all of us in the Nashville Music Industry.  I don't know about you guys, but it's been getting a little lonely out there and gigs…

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Hi everyone,

My wife Dee Dee made me aware of Lisa Kent's latest

update about Chris' ongoing fight with his cancer. Because of treatments

and the side effects and his deteriorating health, Chris will be unable

to tour in 2011. Since he's been not only fighting his cancer but

amazingly still working on the Road with Lorrie Morgan, Melinda

Doolittle, and others this will create a significant financial hardship

on the Kent family right when they need to focus on…

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For those of you who couldn't make it out to my gig at The Rutledge, here's a link to the streaming video. Dig especially the superb contributions of NMP members Shane Roberts, Bryon Larrance, and Tim McDonald....
http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.146.swf?vid=1825625

I just wanted to let all know in the NMP community that I'm debuting my new CD "Urban Legend" tomorrow with a live performance on WPLN's Live in Studio C. I'll be playing with a crack band including Tim McDonald (keys), Shane Roberts (guitar) and Marcus Finnie (drums). . The CD will be available on July 17th at the NAMM Show and at The Low Show at the Rutledge that evening.

We will play tomorrow at 11 AM. You can listen in the Nashville area on WPLN (90.3 FM) or online at www.wpln.org. The… Continue

Hi All,

Sorry for the late notice-my band is playing Live in Studio C for WPLN tomorrow at 11 AM on Nashville Public Radio WPLN (90.3 FM or www.wpln.org). I am aided and abetted by my Musical Partners in Time Shane Roberts on guitar and Bryon Larrance on drums with extra special guest and NMP member Tom Roady on percussion and that little Flying Saucer thingie that makes the weird noises....

You can hear us live at 11 AM or later at 8 PM and the program will be posted on their website… Continue

Just a note that I'm doing some Jazz stuff over the next couple of weeks that's cool stuff....

I'm playing with Mike Gallaher (Joe Cocker, Adrian Belew) axe-meister extraordinaire at Saffire's at The Factory in Franklin Saturday from 7-10 PM on March 22 and again on the 29th. Stop in and say hi to "Zsa Zsa" my Hungarian String Bass as we play everything from standards to John Mayer tunes

Monday , March 24th I'm playing a Smooth Jazz gig with Joe Gross (trumpet), Carl Albrecht… Continue