Neils Blog

ON THE RUN
Hello fans, been a while, so now to catch you up. We signed a deal last month with Global Eyes Entertainment, with veteran Preston Sullivan onboard already securing several European territories in the last couple months since the Midem festival in France. I just returned from the SXSW showcase in Austin, Texas including several meetings with industry friends, radio and booking. Hoping to secure the Texas market again for touring soon this year as the new single moves toward adds. We moved throughout Texas, traveling to the Padre islands on the beach for a few days rest and camping back to Austin then on to New Orleans's Bourbon Street for a travel through, last blow out and back home, meeting family I haven't seen in a while throughout our travels. A great trip I will always remember I'm sure and three of the most grueling weeks of my life on the move.

The week prior to SXSW we we're at CRS in Nashville meeting radio PDs doing a bit of PR for our new single that is hitting radio now, "Bright Lights." Here's a link for radio station PDs and numbers for you to call and request the new single (available to country radio stations on CDX VOL 469). Please stay within the area of where you live, and remember all you do helps us as a street team, calling radio for request of the single. We also are working with Jerry Duncan radio promotions in Nashville and with Jade Entertainment on PR and radio with Judy Ade a veteran of the industry along with her colleague Jay Karl working the secondary market radio panel. We hope to gain some ground in the next few weeks, only 2 weeks in, the single seems to be doing very well.

Now, on a bad note in the last few months is this, my little dog Cooter got picked up and carried away by a hawk -- killed and eaten by a hawk, what a way to go. I really miss him a lot and to top it off a few weeks after that my ex-wife Melissa was in a bad car accident, hit by a drunk driver in the side hurting her really bad ,she is tough though and I'm sure she will rebound in a few months. I seem to feel helpless, I wish I could be there for her to help her out but as CSN once wrote, "too much water moving underneath the bridge, let the water come a carry us away." God Bless, Neil Carswell

Well, its been three months since I wrote all you die hard fans but here we are again with Christmass coming on and a New Year. Thanks for all the support throughout the years with the records.  This month I am giving you a link for radio with all the phone numbers and program directors in your state. Please don't call out of state, this will cause a shutdown on a single very fast, so keep it at the home plate. CDX is a format that goes to every radio station in North America (mainstream, secondary radio, local non-reporting stations, etc.).  So, if you don't have one that's on the list call any country station in your town you know and they will have the single on CDX, I would bet.

The single, of course, is "Altar Call" on the new record, "Keep You Guessing," which is in production stage and will be in distributed to stores soon in the New Year of '09. Remember, the list is reporting stations and they matter the most, so help us out all you can in promotion, these are the ones to Billboard, so call and ask for the program director, be cordial and polite and know the powers to be. Nevertheless, all the more helps with your support; so please phone in. 

Now, as for me as as artist and a carpenter, I 'm here with family in North Carolina living the holidays with family and friends as so they claim to be dwelling in the land of languor, surviving, loving, and living. For the month of September I was in, Sedona Arizona with my friend, Nanette Anderson, Chris Anderson's wife (Chris Anderson of the band "The Outlaws") while she underwent treatment for Lyme Disease. Nevertheless, being the trooper she is, we hiked, traveled to the west rim of the Grand Canyon, to the Navaho country of the Canyon De Chelly on a horseback journey accompanied by old friend and Copperhead bassist, Seve Keim, for a trip of a lifetime, ending with a trip throughout Memphis in October on my birthday, where it all begin in the land of blues. I've posted some photos in the photo gallery. Now, here we are ... so call in to that radio and have a great Christmass and remember the savior of the world not Santa or whatever they come up with next. Peace and all good will to all good men. Neil Carswell