7/18/16: Richmond, VA- Plan 9 Records. Our first record store play! Gene had connected us with Jim Bland, the owner of the awesome record shop in Richmond, and he offered us up an evening show to promote our new album. It was really cool for us to get to play to a crowd of people both from the previous night’s charter house concert as well as the night before’s concert with Dale and Renee Scott. Seeing so many friends and great people coming out to hear the music made us feel at home. We are so lucky to have such a warm group of friends here in Richmond. While the bus was in the shop Gene and Dale were kind enough to let us stay for a few days with them. We didn’t have a show until Thursday and the bus wouldn’t be ready until that morning. Our few day stay with Gene and Dale included family dinners, jamming to all sorts of music, and playing pool (you guys really know how to make us feel at home!) Gene even let us borrow his car to explore Richmond. One of the days Collin, Austin and I met up with our friend Reggie who showed us around town. We went to Belle Isle off of the James river which was a beautiful hike that lead to a big river. None of us had brought swimsuits but we couldn’t resist jumping in on such a hot day, and our air dried on the hike back. On our last night in town we had a big dinner with Gene, Dale, Lou, and Ernie (all four presenters of the house concert we had played Sunday.) We had good food with great company and spent the night playing music on the porch and playing pool and ping pong. It’s nights like these that we won’t forget and we are so lucky to be able to call such kind, generous people our friends, thanks for everything, guys!