I was 35 yrs old when I joined my first Fan Club and it was for the Country Western Singer, Neal McCoy!! I saw him for the first time when I lived in Salt Lake and my sister, Ruth and I went to a Country Music Festival of some kind in Grand Junction Colorado!!! We were going because Sawyer Brown was the "big" name group and we loved them plus the Oak Ridge Boys, Suzy Bogus, and a couple other names that we liked were performing too. Neal McCoy was earlier in the day but I have to tell you he was so entertaining that everyone (Except for Sawyer Brown) after him paled by comparison. I started hearing his songs more on the Radio and then we moved to Kansas! My first year in Kansas he was singing at the State Fair, so I went, then for my birthday a year or so later my husband surprised me by bringing me to Fort Worth Stockyards for a Neal McCoy concert (this was before we lived here) after that I tried to see him wherever he was. It was then that I decided I should join his fan club and the next time he came to Wichita in Concert - because I was a fan I got to go to the "Meet and Greet" it was too exciting to get to meet him in person and when I told him what my favorite song was he even sang a little to me!!I am no longer a Fan Club Member, I think I stopped that after we moved to Atlanta, Georgia. But I will always be a fan. I lost track of his career a little but this weekend, my sister gave me tickets so that my friends and I could go see Neal McCoy at the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma. She told me that she remembered how much I loved him and since she was no longer going to use the tickets she had bought, she would give them to me if I didn't mind driving the 2 hrs to get there and if I had some people to go with me!!! YES, I said, and called my best girls - Becky & MaryAnn and away we went. Becky had heard Neal McCoy in concert before and said that he was not the main group that they had gone to see, but that he was so entertaining and was better then the main group!! (Sounds just like my experience). MaryAnn is not a country western music fan, but loves Becky and Me, so she came along and really had a good time and loved him and said, "Wow, he can really sing!" Which of course is true!!!
Getting ready to leave for the Concert!!
At the concert waiting for it to start!!
Becky & MaryAnn bought me a T-shirt!!! "Ya Gotta Love that"!!
He has a new Album coming out in October, that Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert have produced. He sang 2 songs from that Album and I loved them.....can't wait until the radio starts playing them!!
It cost us only 1/2 tank of gas to get there an back, and our talking, laughing and catching up, made the trip go so fast that it seemed like no time at all!!!
It was a great way to spend Labor Day weekend. With good friends that I could talk about my mom with and celebrate her life!! She would have loved that we went as girlfriends and had a good time!!!
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How fun!! :)
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