Nashville

Nashville means something very specific to my brothers and I that has nothing to do with the hustle and bustle of Music City. It is little league baseball, Tusculum Elementary school, Brentwood Baptist, Christ Church children's choir and our little house on Adamwood Drive where we played When You See A Car Coming, Dive In The Ditch with the other neighborhood kids. It was certainly full of music, but most of it you've never heard of and it's brilliance is mingled with nostalgia and a love for our song-writer father who walked with Jesus and made gold records now and then in His name. (http://www.garydriskellmusic.com/)

Other than that, Nashville occupies little space in my heart - certainly less than our beautiful Kansas City. Although, the people here are extremely kind and an argument could be made for (or against) more street performers in downtown KC, but that's neither here nor there.

Our day started with bible study, breakfast, communion, prayer and a quick rehearsal of our new songs in the pool area, which was totally empty at 8:00am. Our meeting was with a management company that handles 4 other artists, some up and coming and some veterans in the Christian music scene. Basically, we sent them our music and they wanted to hear if we had any more. So we played for them, talked, had lunch and talked a bit more. We discussed where Maywood has been, where we are now and where we're going. In the end, we determined that the gap between those last two is still very large and the time for needing a management company (at least of this size) has not yet come, which is a wise bit of advice we received from our good friend Jason Watson a couple of weeks ago. Most of the conversation was free advice and encouragement from a  generous couple of Industry pros who's time is extremely valuable. The most important thing Maywood left with is how to proceed from here, which is no small thing in a group of 6 dominant personalities and talent. Even still, a lot of prayer and decision making lies ahead of us.

For now, we continue to mill around Nashville, taking full advantage of another beautiful day before heading home tonight.