Recently in Pre-tour Category

I'm busy returning emails and neck-deep in last-minute planning for the Roadshow, and, in the background, I'm watching Scott McClellan perform his umpteenth interview about his book, What Happened. And I wondered, what has happened to him in the gauntlet of media that he's done in the past couple weeks? I wonder what he's learned about being interviewed. I mean, I've seen some political figures get coverage, but nothing like McClellan's gotten. I hope his publicist gets a bonus.

Keith Olberman, who was interviewing him tonight, tossed him softballs. But Jon Stewart didn't. As usual, Jon Stewart -- you know, the comic -- did the job that journalists should have.

Allen Lockwood Withee was born on March 7, 1871 in Wessington Springs, South Dakota. He was raised in the big city by caring traditional parents who valued the simple life and devoted personal piety. At the tender age of 12 “A.L.” had an intense spiritual awakening and began traveling and preaching the gospel of Jesus on skid row and along the rural byways of the Midwestern United States....

Against all odds, a long lost recording of the Ben Johnson Boys, which included The Professor, the Preacher, and Big Brother, has just surfaced. Here it is!!!

They're available HERE....

Anthony Bower Hawthorne, “The Professor,” was born on a farm in Illinois in 1868. His father was a ne’er-do-well sharecropper, poet, and drunk. His mother was a mousy woman who occasionally spoke in tongues, but never in church. The eldest...

Mark, Tony and i did a run through this weekend and feel really good about how the show is taking shape. WE have the song together, the transitions and the feel. There is still an ominous amount to do in...