OLD FASHION BIG TENT REVIVAL

Day III. May 12. 2008. Hendersonville.
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re·viv·al -
Pronunciation [ri-vahy-vuhl]
–noun
1. restoration to life, consciousness, vigor, strength, etc.
2. restoration to use, acceptance, or currency: the revival of old customs.
3. a new production of an old play.
4. a showing of an old motion picture.
5. an awakening, in a church or community, of interest in and care for matters relating to personal religion.
6. an evangelistic service or a series of services for the purpose of effecting a religious awakening: to hold a revival.
7. the act of reviving.
8. the state of being revived.
9. Law. the reestablishment of legal force and effect.

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This morning, Todd, Chris, and Ross will arrive in Nashville. They are flying in. I will meet them at the extended stay hotel called 'In-towne Suites' in Hendersonville, TN. This is where I will be staying throughout the duration of my time here. Its cheap but not dingy. Real cheap actually. $190 per week. Can't beat that with a stick.
They arrive at their rooms a few minutes before I do. I pull up to the hotel, and in thick-striped lemon yellow there is a big tent on the front lawn next to the parking lot. Sign welcomes a walk-up congregation, "OLD FASHION BIG TENT REVIVAL" it shouts in all caps. I really am in the rural South now.
Todd Erk plays Bass. Chris Giraldi: drums, and Ross 'Rolling Tunder' Bellenoit: guitar. We have the whole day and night to hang. Tomorrow morning is day 1 of tracking.
Let's walk to Waffle House. Smothered, covered, and capped. Over the course of the next few days, we dined on the House of Waffle cuisine ad nauseum. Not that it isn't good eatin'. But too much of a good thing, know what I mean? If the waitress at Waffle in Hendersonville, TN near the Exxon, read this blog...We say, "Hey y'all, from the band!"