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Seven nights, seven states, many beers and one corn dog later, the Southern leg of The 2003 Livingroom Tour is complete. No almost about it; I am actually home. I left Lisa’s Chapel Hill apartment at 6 am. It’s 6:22 pm. I just got home. What happens in the car? In those 604 miles? What…

A weather front turned the warm summer breeze that has graced this tour to cold last night sometime around my Raleigh performance of ‘Summer’s Gone.’ But the sky is clear and blue this morning, the sun is out, and I’m heading home tomorrow. All is well and right with my world. I’m sitting at Jyl’s…

I am in the sun-bathed, bay-windowed alcove of 1720 Grove Street in Richmond, Virginia. There is a fifty-foot statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee just a few blocks away. I am well below the Mason-Dixon Line. I am well into the South. The Livingroom Tour is hitting stride. I am finally rested, and hydrated,…

I’m on my friends’ Heather and Joe’s back porch in Takoma Park, MD, just a few blocks from the DC border. It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m about half-way through the first leg of the Livingroom Tour. And I can’t even begin to know where to start… I left NYC at dusk on Thursday, still significantly…

The 2003 Benjamin Wagner Livingroom Tour has begun. I will be the Johnny Appleseed of acoustic pop, rockin’ the folk from coast to coast. As long as I end up back here, back home with you. If last night is any indication, I’m in for three weeks of mad fun, followed by three weeks of…

I got 1000 glorious copies of Almost Home in the mail today. So what’d I do to celebrate? Why, head over Control One studios to record three new tunes, of course. Kevin and I bagged three new ones in two hours: “The Rest of My Life,” “Whirlwind,” and “Wishes.” Kev was on fire with a…