My Imaginary Friends Are REAL

When I was a little girl, I had imaginary friends. I think I've mentioned before that they resembled Woodstock (Snoopie's best birdie friend) with the big noses and what not... and they were REALLY short... I don't remember this part, but Mamma always said that I would introduce them all and I would have my "old friends" and my "new friends".

I think about that a lot when we have old friends show up at shows and then all the newbies that we meet, too. :)

We played at another Ballydoyle location tonight - in Bloomingdale, Il. We had lots of old friends and new friends show up :)

Old friend (even though tonight was the first time we met!!) Rich had found my music online a few years ago. He's never been able to make it to one of our shows in the area. But tonight, he finally was able to come! :) So fun.


New friends!


Old friend; Scott Holt turned Natalie Stovall fan :)


New friend


And of course there were a lot more!!! We had a really great show tonight. It was nice to have a little bigger stage this evening :) We weren't all up on top of each other :) And people kept requesting my songs. I feel like we are turning a big corner because that is happening so much lately. We keep showing up and people are singing along to my songs and making lists of requests of only my tunes. You have no idea how HUGE that is. And how much more wonderful that is than when someone requests "Sweet Home Alabama" (on SO many levels.)
Nothing against "Sweet Home"...it's just that it is not hard to impress when everyone AND their mother know all the lyrics to a song... getting people to like what YOU do is the trick :)

Tomorrow we have a day off and the band is having our first writing day together. I am SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!

Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie