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Apparently the disco nap didn't help me one bit because I only made it out to James Yuill on Friday night.

After being completely zonked from staying out so late at Diggnation, I got up and freshened up to go trudge through the rain to catch James Yuill at The Annex.

I arrived a little late. Audience was a bit scarce. It was like little pockets of couples dotted on the main floor. But no worries as it was only a matter of minutes before I was quickly scooped up by what appeared to be the only other fan at the show. Her name was Colleen. She had brought along her husband and best friend from college with newlywed husband in tow. As soon as she saw me standing alone but knowing the words to the songs, she immediately enouraged me to move up front with her and was dancing it up as close to James as she could get.

His set was great! I gotta say, listening to this guy on recording does NOT do him justice whatsoever. I know the PA at The Annex is a bit loud to begin with, but the programming that this guy blends with acoustic guitar is NOT as quiet as it sounds on the record. I happily bobbed my head around and swayed with Colleen in the front the whole time. After a quick text chat with Drew to confirm we were both too zonked to hit up Amanda Blank, that left me with Colleen and her crew, who were INCREDIBLY sweet people. When I told them that a friend had sent me the record but I didn't have enough cash to grab it to be supportive at the show, Colleen's best friend disappeared for a few minutes only to return with a copy of the record signed for me by James. What's funny is the whole time they thought my name was "Kimmy" so James signed the record to "Kimmy". lolz. Oh well. After making sure Colleen had plenty of time to be "normal fan" and not "unfortunately too well versed in the music biz fan", I wandered over to James to ask how tour had been going, etc. We were cut a bit short because his sound guy wanted to go load out, but I received an INCREDIBLY polite DM from him on Twitter apologizing for having to cut me short.

Artists: see how that works? I know it's harder the bigger you get, but if you start out this way... DANG! It's that little bit of extra work that makes you stand out to people in a BIG way.

If I wasn't officially a fan before the show, I DEFINITELY am one now.

If I still haven't sold you on him, check out his video for his incredibly adorable little jam called "This Sweet Love":

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