These American Times

We played City Tavern in Dallas, TX. It was an amazing night. The City Tavern is a great pub. If you're in the area you need to visit. You walk in and feel like nothing outside of the pub matters much anymore.

The night was a blissful blur full of laughing, smiling, yelling, drinking, singing, huging, and playing music. Exactly what a show at a bar should be, exactly what we set out on the road to find.

When we got there they told us that we could eat for free, and drink for free as long as we drank Pabst. I was more than fine with that. That's a good bar. The night started out great, but it got increasingly better as it progressed. As the night went on people got happier and started having  more and more fun - maybe it was the beer - but I think it was something more. There was excitement and energy in the air. By the end of my set people were standing up dancing and laughing. On my last song I said "this song is called Texas." and the whole room let out a cheer. The weren't cheering because of the song, cause no one had heard it before, they were cheering because they were having a fantastic time It was a good excuse to let out a yell. The night was already primed for a good howl, we just needed something in common to howl about, and it just took one word, "Texas".

We stayed the night at the Adolphus Hotel, just around the corner - a gorgeous hotel. It looked like it came right out of the 50's. Plush, everything was made of wood and beautiful fabric. We stumbled in around 3:00 AM and crashed hard. Thanks to Lenny for putting us up.

A friend took video of the entire night. You can find a couple of them below, but the rest is on youtube under the tag theseamericantimes.

On our way to Lubbock a new story was waiting. I'll bring you up to speed on that shortly....