Check your Rand McNally, you won't find Sautee, and yet it's got this great coffee shop, an incredible restaurant, and an Arts Center that puts on a wonderful series called Evening Star Concerts that we've been lucky enough to play at twice.  We love places that aren't on the map...  Sautee, by the way, is up there in the hills of Northeast Georgia between Helen and Clarksville.  It is absolutely beautiful in late April (it was pretty nice in January when we were there the first time, too...).  It's also the home of our friends, Don and Lila Porterfield--you might have seen Don playing bass with Kate Campbell, Pierce Pettis, Chuck Brodsky, etc.

Other highlights this month included another trip to Ithaca, NY to play for our friends at WVBR's Bound for Glory, the best live radio concert we know of, and a sow with Hot Soup at the Uptown Coffeehouse in Baltimore--we called it the Food Groups tour--we hope to do more things together.

If there was one major disappointment this month it had to be that while we were in Tupelo, MS--it was the first time we played in Tupelo, in fact...and that was really quite nice.  No, the major disappointment was that we couldn't find one single solitary postcard of Elvis's birthplace right there in Tupelo!!  We could have displayed that postcard proudly right here, but, no!  Oh, they had plenty of Graceland postcards we could have gotten, but Graceland is up the road a ways, in Memphis, not Tupelo, and we weren't in Memphis--we were in Tupelo!.  They also had plenty of postcards of Elvis himself that we could have gotten too, but we've always thought he looks so much better on velvet...