That must've been the most-relaxing house concert I've done, especially solo.

Yesterday morning, I drove from Portland to Eugene listening to Marketplace and Music Business Radio podcasts. It was another beautiful drive. Oregon really is a gorgeous state. Lovely trees, rolling hills, mountains in the distance. I started thinking about it and realized if it weren't so much further away from Europe, I wouldn't mind living in this state. But I still would like to be closer to Europe so I can make frequent trips.

Anyway, I arrived in Eugene earlier afternoon and met up with Kari Haley from The Signal Podcast. We grabbed some coffee after a quick drive through Eugene. Then after geeking out about some of her Firefly goodies she got food and such ready for the house concert in the evening. Time flew by and before I knew it there was a knock at the door and it was 6:30pm.

It was a small turnout as I expected. I was told that six people confirmed for this. That probably helped me to relax a bit in itself. I think eight people showed up in all. We gabbed as a few more people came in and then I started playing some time after 7:30pm.

There was no set list. No real plans of what I would do. I just started picking songs that people had mentioned earlier and then flew through a nice mix of solo songs, cat songs and bard songs. Forty five minutes later or so, the first set ended and we watched an episode of Ask A Ninja Podcast.

The second half went just as easily as I even played a few songs that Andrew and I do together. That was weird... having folks chirp in the lines because I don't remember them. Weird but amusing. Oh! And all my cats songs... I remembered the lyrics. Much easier to do with as much as I played them this weekend.

Usually by the end of a tour set, I am wiped. I'm not sure why it was so relaxing. But it was nice. The show was a lot of fun. Everyone seemed to go away happy and jovial. And it was just a pleasant fun evening all in all. I haven't listened to the recording I made, but if it came out halfway decent, I'm gonna try and post it in the Pub Songs Podcast. So I want to thank to everyone who showed up.

Slainte!