harmonizing together and we were P: Do you have to eat a lot of awful
like, hey, this sounds really good. food on the road?
We decided to actually have a
rehearsal together and work up N: At home, I’m a total food snob.
some songs. We scheduled it I cook, I don’t go out much. I have
for September 11. So it delayed high standards. But once we get
our getting started a little, but back in the van, my taste buds
it also brought everything into go through a change. McDonalds
perspective. We had each spent so is palatable when I’m on the road.
much time dealing with fears and Waffle House becomes really good
insecurities... things that go along eats. If we can find a Chipotle on the
with putting yourself out there on road, oh God, that’s wonderful! We
stage, and just in life. Those things try to look it up ahead of time and
had been a really big deal for all try to find Thai or Vietnamese food
of us. September 11 made those if we can.
fears seem a lot less important. We
played our first gig as Girlyman P: You have the kind of fans that
in January of ’02. just absolutely, rabidly adore you.
Is that ever kind of weird?
P: Who’s really fun to tour with?
Who do you want to tour with? N: No, I love it. I think it’s
wonderful! Our fans are the best
N: Indigo Girls were fun and their that we could hope for. Some of them
audiences were great. Plus we’d all travel amazing distances. They
been listening to their music since connect with the music, they don’t
high school, so it was a lot of fun to talk when we’re singing, and when
be able to play with them. And we we’re done, they leave us alone. It’s
opened for Catie Curtis. ... We all wonderful. I could not ask for a
became best friends on that tour, better group of fans than what we
in a way we haven’t done before. have.
I would love to tour with the Dixie
Chicks. They seem like really cool
Holly Timberline is a writer based in Richmond,
VA. She recently traveled all the way to the
people, and I think that could be a
Caribbean on Cayamo 2009, a cruise featuring
lot of fun, to see how they work, on
singer-songwriters that could knock your swim
trunks off. Included, of course, was Girlyman,
tour and musically.
whom Holly adores. You might even say rabidly.
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