Wednesday 12 August 2009

Back to Blighty and YouTubes (11 August 2009)

Here we are back in Blighty after our great Thelma and Louise roadtrip. It was packed full of experiences and here is our list of recommendations if ever you follow in our footsteps...
These are in order of best first
Must Do
Record your own track at the Ryman auditorium, Nashville
Dollywood, Pigeon Forge
Dolly’s Dixie Stampede and dinner show, Pigeon Forge
Mesquite Rodeo, Dallas
Jack Daniels Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee
Kennedy Museum, Dallas
Southfork, Dallas

Should do:
Grand Old Opry backstage Tour, Nashville
The Elvis experience, Gracelands etc., Memphis
Civil Rights Museum, Memphis
Loveless Cafe, Tennessee
Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville
The Stockyards, Fort Worth
Broadway in the evening for live country music, Nashville

Could do:
Dolly’s Splash Country, Pigeon Forge
Smoky Mountains and Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Beale St in the evening for live Blues music, Memphis
Mississippi Steamboat, Memphis

And as a reminder of our top two must do's, here’s the links to YouTube
First, Ant on the scariest ride of all at Dollywood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9Expas8YI
and second, the track we recorded in Nashville. You can even watch this one in HQ by clicking the HQ button at the bottom of the video. Sadly it doesn't change the quality of the voices to a higher quality.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxcMhTpcKk0 beware – it’s crazy like most of our trip..........