Chris Cardman – Lead Guitarist – County Line Road – 2013 Screenshot from Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam website
Some of you have been kind to help with votes for County Line Road in the Pepsi Gulfcoastjam. They reached the Reverbnation #1 spot for Country Rock and have been inching forward from 8 to 6 to 4 and are now in the #3 spot for Pepsi’s search for the “First ever Southern Original.” Chris Cardman, the lead guitar player for County Line Road, is my friend, and we were neighbors at Playa San Miguel in Costa Rica for many years. I am so happy to witness the band’s climb to fame!
Over 2000 acts applied for this event, and CLR is one of 48 that made the finals, and they did well! Darryl Worley, who presided over the Tallahassee playoffs, had several remarks to Chris that made me smile: “Hey man… play that guitar….” and “… That rock and rollin’ guitar man makes us smile and wanna drink more Pepsi!”
They have also been selected to perform in the Simple Man cruise in late October! Today their song Watering Hole plays first in the queue, then 20 Mile Bend and THEN plays Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man! Listen to the lineup here:
http://www.simplemancruise.com/lineup/player/id/836/
Here’s part of their update email:
“BREAKING NEWS!!!
County Line Road was added to the lineup for Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man Cruise in October!!!! We will be playing alongside Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackberry Smoke, A Thousand Horses, Molly Hatchet and more!!! We couldn’t have done it without your votes!”
They’re already listed as one of the Beachfront Stage Artists for the Jam as well: (Darryl Worley) http://www.darrylworley.com/pepsi-gulf-coast-jam-announces-beachfront-stage-artists/
The judges top picks from the Tallahassee competition will not be announced until the voting closes on Thursday. The top winners will be chosen based on 60% from judging and 40% from the public votes. If you have a Facebook account, please help them hit the #1 spot! Urge your friends to vote as well!
http://pepsigulfcoastjam.sonicbids.com/artist/county-line-road/vote/
With two busy weeks behind me, I am still in transit, heading for the airport after I hit ‘publish.’ I’ll be offline until tomorrow night and hopefully online soon with lots of updates! I’ve lots and lots and lots to share!
Thanks for helping with the voting if possible!
Z
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Done 🙂
thanks amigo! get more of your UK friends in your support!
from the gate, z
Yep, will do. I’ll plaster it on Facebook in the morning
you rock as well!!! thanks!
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This is totally cool news about your friend and his band. I will vote. Coming back to Ecuador? Safe travels, my friend. By the way, forgot to mention, Sara and I got our Cedulas last week. YIPPEE!
Hugs from Cuenca,
Kathy
yes, i am so proud of him! he often played his music late at night after everyone was sleeping.. i often wandered down and we had great late-night visits while he shared his unplugged originals or discussed his favorite artists – many blues legends.
congrats on the cedulas! whew! that’s always a relief to get over those hurdles..
i’m about to get thru the gate to the plane! seems like dejavu in rewind.. in two hours i’ll be in bogota! see you online again there!
z
Hello Z……I posted more pics (via Twitter) for you on County Line Road!!! The Simple Man Cruise was Amazing and a trip I will never forget!!! Chris’s Mom 🙂
got my vote in..safe travels, luega amiga
thanks… will go straight to the 3 a.m bus to portoviejo then jama… will have one day at home and then to mindo!
from bogota,
z
Wonderful. Glad to hear. I will vote.
thank you thank you thank you! i’ve been off the radar for a few weeks but hope – in a few days – to be online more often.
z
I can’t vote because no FB, but have passed the word on to some musically inclined and interested friends who’ll certainly vote and pass it around. Safe travels – and congrats to your friend!
thanks.. same w/me – no facebook. thanks for passing it on.
z
Congrats to your friend, the trip sounds wonderful musically. Hope the travel went well, it will be long over by now. Cheerio, Tony
hey thanks! travel started at 2 in the morning via bus.. 8 hours later i was in the city, then at the end of the day flew to columbia and then ecuador. caught another bus at 1:30 int he morning and arrived in jama late morning. i’m now home on the river for a few hours, then a good night’s sleep, then on the road tomorrow – back to mindo, that bird-dense area of the cloud forest. i will be in mindo possibly for a month, so i will find a balance soon! z
How wonderful to be in a floud forest and amongst so many birds. Looking forward to reading all about it in due course. Sleep well! Tony
curious to read your updates when you are back home again!
thanks! am in jama now and on my way home.. hopefully the internet will be working.
tomorrow i will be on the road again so might be another week before the normal posts resume!
if not, i have so many photos, videos and stories to pull together that it might be a blessing to be offline!
z
Listened to “Watering Hole” and it was spell binding. I like Chris’ guitar which is more pronounced than in other similar acts. Thanks for enlightening us.
hey
thanks so much! i like watering hole as well, and it gives my buddy some special time to shine. i am so proud of him!
made it to mindo and am on higher-speed internet. yes!
I have missed you and your comments. My latest post will show you the reason I need that calming effect of painting.
hey again.. am on my way now! i think i’ll fire up the magic carpet so i get there asap!
z
Thank you for this excellent article on my son Chris and his band County Line Road, Brought tears to my eyes!!!!