An Update and the Rest of the Story

So about that whole "I'm going camping" thing...I decided I wanted to get further away than that...much further. I decided to just point a direction and go that way...I happened to point south, so thats just what I did - I headed south. About midway through Alabama I stopped at this rest stop and decided I needed some directions. I asked what the best spot to relax was around the area. The guy I was asking (rest stop attendant) told me if I wanted to relax, I needed to go to a beach. I figured why the hell not and asked what the closest beach was. I got the choice of Gulf Shores, Ft. Walton Beach, and Panama City...I took Panama. 12 hours later I was there, got the cheapest motel I could find (42 dollars) and slept. I woke up the next morning and went to the beach. It was really quite an experience. There is more to it than that but I'll tell you that later, I want to finish the story of how I got to here. Ok...

So we left off with my senior year of high school and finally having success with my album 'One' produced by my dude Keynon Moore. Alright so ya, it was big in my eyes - the fact that I was on iTunes was huge to me, as was the radio play I got in Los Angeles, Montreal, Houston, etc.

Many different things happened as a result of the CD, but one of the biggest results was a call I got from Jonathan one day when I was in New Orleans. I hadn't talked to him for a good two years at this point so it wasn't something I was expecting. I said that he was now a counselor at a camp for troubled kids and that one of the kids in his cabin had one of my songs on his ipod and he was absolutely stunned and amazed. He figured it was a sign and he called me. He told me his entire story from drug deals to doing number runs in Mexico to moving to New York and almost getting arrested numerous times to finally seeking shelter and finding God. Its a pretty amazing story that I may write up in more detail at some point.

As all this was happening I applied to only one college - Belmont University. It seemed like the perfect fit for me; it had everything I wanted in terms of music, size, education, extracurriculars, etc. I was accepted and went in August (after the CD release on March 28th) where I met Brian Bachmann in a computer class. We talked and I said he was a rapper and he said he made beats, we tried working together on a few songs, and it evolved into an entire CD - the one I am about to release: "Unorthodox". Through that we got to know each other too and we got to be good friends. It all added up to the album we have now and through a bunch of works and connections we have around 80 radio stations rostered to play at least one song off the new CD (with most of the college stations putting the whole CD into rotation) and over twenty magazines (online and hard copy) lined up to do album reviews for it. This CD is setting up to be far bigger than my last endeavor and I am really excited about the way it looks like it is going.

That's all I got for now. That's the story. I'll post back later.

Be good.

Tre