July 17, 2008 New Song and the Carolinas... My little sister turned Sweet 16 a few weeks ago and all she wanted was a song. I have posted the new song that I wrote for her. Its called "Kristin's Song", which you can hear on my Reverbnation player, MySpace and soon ShelbyMerchant.com. As for a little background info, Kristin is my next oldest sibling and is 10 years younger. Although I had to give up my "only-child crown" late in life, I thank God that I have an opportunity to experience having a little sister...yes Logan, and a little brother too. ------------------------------------------------ Mason Douglas and I took to the Carolinas for a qucik tour as we have done many times in the past. In this blog I've included a new song, photos(in the photos page), thank yous and stories. It all started on Fri July 11th with a quick stop at the Cracker Barrel then on to Clemson SC to play The Esso Club . When we arrived at the club we met a couple of great girls, Joyce and Melika, who detoured their road trip to Florida and stopped in to see us play. Thanks to Megan Meier and her bestest friend for coming out too. The Clemson crowd was great as usual and we rocked it for 4 hours. We managed to grab a great meal the next morning in Greenville SC and headed on up to Chapel HIll NC...Go Wolfpack (It's an ACC rivalry thing). Now it's on to Bailey's in Chapel Hill where we had mucho people come out to the show and where we got rowdy enough that some of the audience had to be escorted out:-) So thanks to Kat for putting that one together. It was also a great night to share with the Matthews family, as came they out to celebrate Lynn's birthday. Big thanks to Kelli McIllnay and Franklin too for bringing folks out to let them partake in the Mason Douglas/Shelby Merchant Experience. The trip back was one to be remembered as well. As we headed back to Nashville on Sun., at the I-40/I-75 split we found out I-40 was shut down due to a truck chemical spill. The only detour DOT suggested was to go thru Chattanooga to get to Nashville. Well we thought otherwise and tried our best to elude the 80miles of I-40 that was closed by taking our own detour. Although it was faster than going to Chattanooga, it was a backroad adventure that even Bo and Luke Duke would have been proud of. 0 Comments Archives November 2004 March 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 August 2006 October 2006 April 2007 June 2007 July 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 Current Posts