Alabama Road Trippin'

So this past weekend I took a little road trip up to Montgomery Alabama and Thursday night we drove the 45 minutes over to the Bourbon St. bar in Auburn Alabama to see the Casey Donahew Band. Haven't heard of them yet? If you listen to country and you haven't then you're missing out. They started back in 2002 in Texas and even refusing to sign with a major label are gaining recognition for their fun old school country songs. Influenced by the story telling style of country in the 80's and 90's they put on a great live show that I have to fully recommend, they remind me a lot of Robert Earl Keen--yet another Texas musician that if you don't know his music you should. Check out their latest song Double Wide Dream.

The second most interesting part of my trip came when I went into the ladies room of a bar in Montgomery called 1048 where they had a pay by the minute flat iron mounted on the wall! I am still undecided about my feelings on this, it's not often that I am truly torn between whether something is gross or genius. I do wonder if in a few years these will be everywhere..all the same I'm still holding out for the 'straight hair pill' that I know has to be right around the corner.

Finally I rounded out the weekend by spending Sunday night with Caroline, Meagan and Matt in Tallahassee doing a walking ghost tour. The tour is about an hour of walking through guided historical spots in downtown with actual accounts and histories of spooky encounters at some of the towns oldest buildings. With the occasional costumed story teller jumping out from behind a bush this was definitely some good clean family fun though I wish they had some of the buildings open to the tour.

                                          (Ghost Tour photo taken by Meagan Chestnut)