Love and Theft: On the Road and at the CMA Awards

This last weekend with Jason Aldean was a blast, as could be expected. And although we were in Missouri and Nebraska, the weather was fantastic! In both cities, we made time to play some basketball in the afternoon before the show, and both days, Chris, our drummer, beat me several times. He's either really good, or I'm not that good -- but most likely a combination of the two.

It's been amazing to see the reaction we're getting. Even from the beginning of these dates with Jason up to now, we've seen more and more excitement from the crowd, more and more people singing along to "Runaway" and even to the other songs from the album, which absolutely means the world to us! When I can hear the people in the front row yelling and singing -- even with my little earbud monitors in -- THAT'S how I know they're being loud!

We posted a video of Eric's Kearney, Neb., dressing room antics on our Twitter yesterday. It's rather amusing, and you may wanna check it out! What I didn't catch on film was Eric's attempt at playing Matt's fiddle before the show in the dressing room. It's hard for me to really put into words the sheer horror I feel even now when recalling the incident, but let me use an ironic understatement: It was bad.

It's strange. Sometimes I sleep better in my bunk on the bus than I do in my own house. I suspect it's the rumble of the road. (I'm on a very bottom bunk ... the only way to go!) We love being on the bus. We love traveling and seeing all these cool random places and meeting so many people.

Tonight (Nov. 11), we host the CMA Awards' pre-telecast. We get to hand out the CMA broadcast awards which honor the broadcast personalities and stations of the year, along with the national broadcast personality of the year. So check us out tonight, and we'll see you on the road!

- Brian Bandas



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