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Every show day, the pit crew gets bigger. My stage manager, Joshua "Dude" Marcus, and I on the first ten minutes of load-in... and why the handshake with the local crew goes both ways.
A touring team is a pit crew, not a bunch of skilled mechanics. The people, the culture, and the systems I look for when I put a team together... and what it takes to share a 45-foot bus.
Blood family raised me. Touring family has carried me since I was twenty-two. As the Songs About Us Tour draws to a close, a look at what it means to have both.
Almost nobody in the building thinks about rigging. A look at what it actually takes to fly a show over a crowd, from the riggers who do it every night.
An amphitheater one night, an arena the next, a stadium show after that. What it actually takes to keep a production running through a stretch like that.
It's not just more people. The advance changes shape, the crew multiplies, the clock stretches, and you're building everything from a blank box.
You will have weather. Not might. Will. How a major tour plans for it, what a meteorologist service actually does, and what two dangerous nights in 2026 taught me.
One PM's take. Every venue has a load-in situation. Not every venue has people who care about your crew the way they care about the audience.
5 AM to showtime. Here's what a full show day actually looks like at this level — from the bus lot to the wings.
2026 was my 13th CMA Fest at the old building — and the last. Here's what changed over thirteen years, what the stadium taught me, and what we're taking to the new venue in 2027.
30 years of advancing has taught me that the difference between a smooth show and a disaster is almost always in the prep. Here's what I check every single time.
In-ear monitors changed everything about how we approach monitor world. A look at what's evolved and what still matters most when you're responsible for what the artist hears.