Early morning on a Kansas highway, the sun just rising ahead of us as we head back to Little Portion. Last night’s concert in Manhattan, Kansas was a great conclusion to the Monk Rock/Beautiful City/JMT & friends Tour. The church was packed wall to wall & the choir terrific. All in all a wonderful night except perhaps for the absence of Tom Booth who we’ve missed these past few shows.
Now it’s back home for everyone, each to our own place. JMT & Viola back to life at the monastery. John Michael to finish work on his 50th album; a traditional JMT work it should be released sometime in 2007. Terry returns home to Fresno for some much deserved rest. He’s been along with us not only for this tour with the band but for the previous few tour legs with JMT as well. Tom Booth continues on with his own work as an artist, producer, and A&R rep for Spirt & Song. Word has it that Tom will touring solo in 2007. Joe Hand is busy as ever. After returning home to Nashville he’s expecting to head right back out to New Orleans to comlete recordings for one of his clients. John Martin heads back to San Diego and his band Cerro Negro. The most musically diverse of our little gang you can expect to find John playing or listening just about anywhere. He’s even found a new interest in polka! My assistant, Stephen Bowman, returns home to his family in LA. Don’t be surprised to hear that Stephen’s been the on set photographer on your next favorite motion picture.
And me….after we unload at Little Portion I’m heading home to Buffalo to help look after my Mom & work on our house. In the next few months I’ll be doing some planning and prep for the next JMT tour which departs in February. We’ll be scaling back for the solo tour, I have to be able to fit everything in the bus once again. I’ve amassed quite a library of recordings, photos & video on tour with JMT. Hopefully I’ll find some time to sift through it all for a gem or two that management can put on the official website. If you need a production guy don’t forget to check out my site, Frugal Audio. In any event the blog will continue. Take a moment to pray for us and don’t forget to come see John Michael in concert in 2007.
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