ChevyCoop is a Tennessean

The ChevyCoop is officially a Tennessean.  I am not referring to myself in the third person, I’m not that guy, instead I’m the guy that has a nick name for his car, which is way better… right?  Anyway, my car now has a Tennessee License plate.  Unfortunately I didn’t want to go through the trouble of getting my custom plates in Tennessee, but they only assigned ONE plate for the back of my car, so I left my California ChevyCoop plate on the front.  I had put off getting registered in Tennessee for as long as I could, my tags expired in February, and I just got them today, March 1, even with an extra day, I missed procrastinated.  I got up early expecting to go through an entire day of DMV problems, that’s from the Californian in me.  The DMV had no line and plenty of nice ladies working and they were not behind bullet proof glass, I wasn't sure if I was in the right place.  It cost $87 and I was done within a half an hour, including driving down to the smog check, which was a joke compared to California.  My car insurance should cost half what I’ve been paying for insurance in The Golden State.  The only catch so far, is I have to go to a different place to get my Driver’s License, and I need two forms of proof that I live in the state, kind of odd, but now I have one with my registration, and my next paycheck will have my new address on it, so that’ll be that.  Thank you Tennessee for being so nice and easy, California take note,  now if they just get an In-N-Out here, we’ll be good.

Andrew and I played some music for the Church here, a week ago, and have already been asked to come back, must have done an alright job.  Next step is to keep looking for more stages to play!  Last weekend I was up in Bellevue for my Dad’s birthday as well as a bluegrass festival, I’ll write separately about that, but the highlights, I met Ricky Skaggs, Claire Lynch, The HillBenders, and played with a lot of bluegrass guys, including my hero, Tennessee Jimmy Harrel.  Who knew I had to go back to my hometown of Bellevue WA, to meet a bunch of pickers from Nashville?

Side note, The HillBenders, while a great band, and excellent performers, do not do well in turbulence on a plane.  And Frontier Air is ran kind of like a Child’s lemonade stand.  More to come...