Everyone should come down for the Carolina Chocolate drops show this Fourth of July.  CCD played an amazing show at last years Roots ‘n’ Blues ‘n’ BBQ Festival and have come back to help Columbia, Missouri do Independence Day right.  There will be food, beer, fun, and SPRINKLERS!!! That’s right sprinklers.  He’s a clip from CCD’s performance at the festival last year.

UPDATE: Just found this clip of the Carolina Chocolate Drops from the Roots ‘n’ Blues ‘n’ BBQ Festival of them covering Hit ‘em Up Style.

It has taken me a few days to get this post up, mostly because I was so blown away by the amazing time that was Steve McQueen Days 2008.  It was disappointing to the such a brief article in the Tribune, however online they posted a great audio slideshow featuring Barbara McQueen, Steve’s widow. 

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: Steve McQueen Days

Slater is a great little town and it very well might be the birth place of cool, therefore I want to make sure it is not ignored or misunderstood.  To aid in the understand of Steve McQueen days I have created a little video of photos and clips I filmed on Saturday. There was so much more going on than what I documented and I wish I was able filmed more.  In addition to the photos and book signing by Barbara, I saw several great speakers including Steve’s stunt double Loren Janes, Sergeant Cliff Anderson - Steve’s military pal, and several locals that knew Steve when he was living there.  Plus, there was great music, food, a movies playing all day long.  However, the true reason I went was for the motorcycle rodeo and it was worth it.  Completely worth it.

Feel free to comment on parts of the video by clicking the green plus that appears when you mouse over the playhead (moving dot) on the video.
The music is the theme from Bullitt

Looks like AT&T is down in Columbia!  People with 3G service are doing just fine, but anyone with GSM is out of luck.  Even my iPhone is without. The local AT&T office has no idea how long the outage will last. Enjoy!

UPDATE: 7:00pm and everything seems to be back up.  This post was brought to you by the new AT&T, the network with the fewest drop calls.

UPDATE 2: Turns out the issue was an equipment failure in St. Louis responsible for supporting the network in Boone County.  It was up and running by Friday night.