Christmas Tour 2011

Wow, this December's Andrew Peterson "Behold the Lamb" tour was the best one ever.  

The shows were amazing, sold out and musically wonderful. 

But even better than the shows was the hang.  

I'm really blessed with some amazing friends and to get to spend the end of the year with them.

One night I walked on the bus to everybody dancing to the Star Trek theme song.  

They then informed me it was a Leonard listening party.  

I have the rough mixes of my new record in their tentative order on my phone.  

My friends sat in the dark and listened for 45 uninterrupted minutes to what I had worked on so hard this Fall.  

It was a huge honor and one of the kindest gifts I've ever received.

We also watched the Best Worst Movie ever, "Troll 2", six or seven times.  

In Alabama we got the chance to meet and hang out with its star, George Hardy.  

So fun.

So yeah, pretty awesome tour.  Thanks to everybody who came to these shows and supported us this year!

Yeah, this looks amazing.

And then there were three...

Three little girls, that is.

We're due in early April.  Mama and baby are healthy and doing well.

Once again, I'll be taking diapers for CDs.

Short Film(ing)

So we made a short film last weekend.  My friend, director Grant Howard, helped me write a screenplay that would tell the story of Leonard in another way.  It was an incredible experience.  More difficult than I could have imagined.  

And he and cinematographer Kip Cubin made it look FANTASTIC.  Also, our design team, Todd Bragg and Tiffany Dupree got that set looking absolutely stunning.  On top of that, Kim Fisher made a pretty incredibly costume.  

Can't wait for you guys to see this film!  Until then, see a bit of the process for yourself...

Thankful for you and for these guys.

I hope you all are having a great Thanksgiving weekend!  I've taken the last two days completely off, (which is very unusual for me!), and have just spent the time with my beautiful wife, precious daughters and wonderful friends.  And a generous amount of mashed potatoes.

And this season I've had much to be thankful for.  And you guys have been a huge part of it!

I have had more fun working on this project that possibly anything I have ever done.  The record is almost complete now, all that's left is to sing on a few songs.  At this point it's looking like the record will have 12 songs and 2 instrumentals.  For the past two months I have no clients besides my own imagination, no critics but my own fear.  It's been the hardest I've probably ever worked as well.  And such a great time.

Until last week I was the only person who had played anything on the record. And then my friend, neighbor and go-to drummer Paul Eckberg came by and rocked two tunes.  

Then my old buddy and live bass player Chris Weigel dropped by and played on "The Only Man in the World".

Finally, bluegrass legend and a recent wonderful new friend Jeff Taylor added a little accordion flavor to "Smoke Signals".  

Other than that, every note on this crazy thing was played by yours truly.  Including the drums.  And that is wild.