Beaver Creek, CO

January 22, 2009

I did a really fun gig with LeAnn Rimes last night in Beaver Creek, CO. We played at the Vilar Performing Arts Center to a full house. The fun thing for me was that the hour and a half show was just the two of us. The audience was extremely receptive to this intimate performance and their enthusiasm just fueled our fire. During the day I went to LeAnn's room to talk about the show and instead of rehearsing any of the songs we were to perform, we wound up learning two new songs and perform them in the show. It was funny the way it happened. LeAnn said "Do you know, To Make You Feel My Love?" I said no, so she played it for me from her computer and I wrote a quick chart. We played it a couple of times and I had goose bumps all over. It was in the show! Then I told her that I had learned a Stevie Wonder song that she had said she liked a couple of years ago. She didn't know all the words so she quickly got them off the computer and we found her key and played it a couple of times. I got goose bumps again and it too was in the show! LeAnn told the audience how we had just learned the songs and after we finished each one the audience went nuts. I have to say LeAnn is an amazing singer and by far the best I have had the chance to work with. I'm hoping for more opportunities to do this show in the future. And if you get to see it, I think you'll dig it too. ;-)