We played in Baton Rouge this past Saturday, the 16th, at a great venue called Boudreaux and Thibodeaux Live. It’s located on 214 Third Street in Downtown Baton Rouge. It’s a great venue, if you are ever in town and looking for a drink or just a place to hang out and watch the game. While we were there I thought I saw a sign saying that they were serving shots everytime the Saints scored. You can’t beat that!

The day started out a little late. We were supposed to leave at 2:30, but Ross and Garrett were a little late, and we ended up getting on the interstate at 3:00pm. I believe Ross and Garrett posted something on facebook saying, “I was pissed at them for being late”. If you don’t know me, I take things a little to serious, OK, way to serious. Anyway, on the way to Baton Rouge, we listened to the Saints game. Who Dat! The rain held off for a while. We were on I12 when we ran into some showers, but that only lasted for about 15-20 minutes. We arrived at Boudreaux’s at 6pm. We set everything up and had to wait for the sound guy to get there at 9, so we walked down the street to a pizza joint to grab a beer and some food.

While we were standing in front of the pizza joint, smoking a cigarette, a bum came up and asked a cig. We stood around and talked to him for a minute and then he asked for some money. No one gave him any money, but the guy didn’t seem too upset. He was nice and walked away, after a few last words about his ex-wife. After he left, Paul gave us a speech about why not to give bums any money. (You can see the speech in our Baton Rouge video we are going to post.) We walked inside the pizza joint called Schlittz and Giggles. They took us in for the next hour and a half and didn’t seem to mind. I guess we made up with the tip. We meet our waitress Lexi, which you will also meet in the video. She was wearing a Saints shirt that day, but the truth is, she’s a COWBOY’s fan. She was hoping it would give her extra tips, but she said, “it didn’t work out as well as I hoped”. Garrett and I drank a couple PBR’s and Ross had a house draft, which he said was ok. Jonny and Paul stuck with the coke products, until we made it back to the venue.

We said by to everyone and headed back to Boudreaux’s. This venue is a 3 story building with apartments on the top floor and bars on the 2nd and 1st floors. When we made it back, we went to the 2nd floor and wrote out the setlist for the night. I’ll try to post the setlist in the next couple days.

Nine o’clock came and we went downstairs to meet the sound guy and finish setting up. Our sound guys name was Warren. At first sight I thought he was on something, or just really tired. When I had a chance I went to Paul and told him to keep an eye on him, and if he hears something while we are playing, ask him to fix it. After the night was done, he was a great sound guy. Never had any problems that we could hear. We went to bar and hung out until time to start, where we met Alex and the other 2 bartenders. I can’t remember there names right now.

The show started at 10pm. We started out with Coldplays, “God put a smile on my face”. The crowd was small at the beginning, but toward the mid, and end of the second set, there was a good crowd. At the first set break we met Kelly and her husband. She purchased all of the merchandise that we sold that night. We hope you enjoy it and it we were glad to meet you, thanks again for listening. Earlier that night we found out that the McClain sisters could not make it. You girls better be there next time. Haha! Hope you feel better soon. During the 2nd set we played the Beatles song, “Come together”, and had a great responce. We always have to wing that song. One of these days we are going to learn it. The last song of the night was our new original, “Mystic Country Girl”. I don’t know if Ross is going to call it that, but that’s what it’s called on the set list.

We loaded everything up, grabbed a bite to eat from Schlittz and Giggles and hit the road. I passed out as soon as we got on the interstate and when I woke up Jonny was asking me which hotel to stop at. We ended up stopping at a Best Western. It’s a little more exspensive, but it was perfect for 5 people. There were 2 tvs and a living room with a couch at the front of the room. The next morning we went down and had a great free breakfast full of waffles, biscuits and gravy, eggs and bacon, oj, milk, coffee and a lot of other stuff. I had to be carried back to the room. I know this is going to go in a different direction, but every time we have stayed in LA, the hotel always has a mexican restraunt right beside it. I don’t know why. If anyone does, please let me know.

We were on the road at 11am the next morning and drove straight back to Mobile. It was a great trip and I just found out that we are going to be back at B and T Live on April 24th. If you are in town or up for a road trip, you are more than welcome. I am hoping the van is going to be ready by then. Cross your fingers.

Adam

I want to thank Scott at Green Frog Music for setting us up with our Baton Rouge gigs.