“WILD HONEY CARIBBEAN CRUISE TOUR”

March 30, 2013 – April 6, 2013

Sailing with: MSC CRUISES
Aboard the: MSC Poesia

Kris Hitchcock & Small Town Son with MSC Cruises has created an incredible special offer exclusively for this trip!

We will be sailing for 7 nights in the Western Caribbean with stops in the beautiful ports of
Cozumel, Mexico – Isla De Roatan, Honduras – Georgetown, Gr. Cayman – Falmouth, Jamaica!

What about the music?

Kris Hitchcock and Small Town Son are the featured entertainers on the ship, with 4 public shows in different venues aboard ship (ranging from dance clubs to bars to theaters), as well as a special acoustic performance in the Hitchcock Lounge that will be a storytellers version of each song. We are also working on a special island show one of the days we are at port!

The band will be playing songs from the new album due out late 2012, as well as popular music from the other album and from popular bands through out the music world!

All the public shows on the ship will be after we have left port, so you won’t have to choose between the beach and the band.

Pricing

Pricing shown is per person, based on double occupancy.

an Interior Stateroom for: $669.00
an Oceanview Stateroom for: $749.00
a Standard Balcony Stateroom for: $789.00
a Superior Balcony Stateroom for: $819.00

Awesome rates for children 17 and under — just $100 – $199 based on age at time of sailing.

The “Wild Honey Caribbean Cruise Tour” pricing includes:
Stateroom, government taxes, service fees, all meals, onboard entertainment, Onboard Public Performances by “Kris
Hitchcock and Small Town Son”, and more!

Final payment is due NOW.

THERE IS A LIMITED AMOUNT OF CABINS AVAILABLE
BOOK NOW TO SECURE THE STATEROOM YOU WANT!!

How to book

To reserve your place on the “WILD HONEY CARIBBEAN CRUISE TOUR”, call:

JADY & DENNY MCLEAN
(616) 264-4063
(616) 987-1966
EMAIL: jdmclean@cruiseshipcenters.com

Who is that?

Denny and Jady are good friends with Kris and the rest of the band, and are here to facilitate getting everyone signed up. People ask us frequently; are they travel agents, are they getting rich off you? No! They are actually going on the cruise with us! Denny is a former NHL hockey player turned travel consultant, and his lovely wife Jady is one of our biggest fans and is usually line dancing with us at shows. The money you pay goes to: the cost of the trip itself; and the costs involved for getting the band there.

Make sure you meet Denny and Jady, you’ll love them!

- Kris

We will be opening for my favorite writer and biggest influence, Eric Church, July 12th at the Common Ground Festival in Lansing.

I’m not sure what else I need to say! Check it out! It’s gonna rock your ass off! We play at 8pm on the side stage, Eric will play after on the Main Stage.

http://www.craigcampbell.tv/

Kris Hitchcock and Small Town Son will be taking the stage directly before Craig Campbell, to return their hard rocking, dynamic show to the Mecosta area.

Date: July 9th
Time: 5pm

The Georgia-bred Campbell was introduced with a five-song EP that landed in the Top 20 on iTunes. His self-titled debut album expands on the central themes of his life—family, friends, purpose and self-determination—with a bundle of self-written songs, all delivered with the force and conviction of someone who’s lived every sentiment in every word.

“I have to believe every one of my songs,” Campbell says matter-of-factly.

It’s a simple premise learned through years of touring at the club level, writing songs in Nashville and playing the bars on Lower Broadway in Music City. Campbell honed his craft in bands backing Luke Bryan and Tracy Byrd, on stages where he covered Alabama and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and at an annual hometown talent contest where he won twice and eventually became the leader of the house band for other contestants.

WBCT Birthday Bash started in 1993. It has become one of the biggest FREE music festivals in the Mid-west and get some of the biggest country music artist every year.

Lineup :

Saturday : Dierks Bentley, Lee Brice, Love & Theft, The Lost Trailers, Dustin Lynch, Jana Kramer, Kris Hichcock and Small Town Son

Sunday : Montgomery Gentry, Brantley Gilbert, Chris Cagle, Gloriana, Thomas Rhett, Kari Lynch Band

"Do you feel like writing and playing enriches your life more, or defines your life more? Yes"

One of my good friends asked me today if I felt like writing and playing songs was more of an enriching part of my life, or if it was more defining part of my life. Kind of an ethereal question, since it’s sorta splitting hairs, but I did my best to answer it and it got me thinking. The answer, as with most things, is yes. But it doesn’t stop there.

As I’ve played and written more and more music, I’ve fallen more and more into a place where I am always thinking about songs. At first, it was just when I would hear music, trying to think about what the writer would think about when he wrote those songs. What was Scooter Carusoe thinking about when he wrote “Better As a Memory”, how much was Brett James hurting when we wrote “Get off on the Pain”?

The more I wrote and the more I thought about songs though, the more I’d try to understand. I learned the Nashville number system so I could recognize chords as I heard the songs on the radio, I started trying to match up lyrics and mood of the music, a concept I refer to as “prosody” (look it up, its greek lol), and I noticed certain words in production (the band stops on the word “stop” or the singer sings low on the word “low”).

And now I’m at the point where I don’t think about songs just when I’m hearing them, but even when I’m not listening to music. In conversation, in life, in television… I start thinking about what those experience would be like if they were set to music. It’s in my mind 24/7, all the time, like a virus or a an idea that can’t be held back. And I like it.

And to get back to the question, I do feel like being a writer enriches my life, sure. It makes it more profound and interesting. And yes, it also defines me; I can’t have a conversation without thinking about the way words fit together, which syllables we emphasize, what rhymes we use naturally. But it’s not just enriching or defining, its like breathing. I just do it, it just is a part of my mind. I don’t mind it, I don’t fight it, I don’t even usually think about it. But I carry a notebook in my truck, in my guitar case, in my laptop bag, in my pocket, and I have two different note taking apps on my iphone in case I have an idea. Song writing is just a part of my life, like breathing, walking, eating, sleeping. The reward for me won’t be a record contract or a cut on the radio, although those are both things I want and work hard for. The reward is when I watch a kid next door throwing a ball straight up in the air and catching it in an over sized mitt. I watch, and smile, and think about how the kid probably is imagining playing center field for the Tigers, in the world series, 2 outs and bases loaded, while the oak trees and the passing cars cheer him on. And then I grab my notebook.

Here’s some links to the songs I mentioned:

To all my friends (and friends of friends) in the US Military, my band Small Town Son and I are putting together a music video for a newly written song called “Dog Tags”, and I’d like you to be in it.

We are recording a studio version of the song very soon, and the videos will be played behind it on youtube and possibly on tv.

WHAT WE NEED IS ANY SERVICEMAN OR WOMAN, FROM ANY BRANCH OF THE MILITARY, to take a 2-5 second video clip holding up their dog tags to the camera, and then email it to me, along with their name, rank, service, and where they are from.

You don’t need to say anything, the song audio will be playing overtop anyway, and the quality can be whatever you have (IPHONE, DROID, DIGITAL CAMERA, COMPUTER CHAT CAMERA, etc.)

We want to include as many as possible. Please take care not to let your social security number be visible on the recording of course.

Please email it to dogtags@krishitchcockmusic.com, the deadline will be February 19th. Please share this with anyone you know who is a member of the service, and any veteran of course as well.

Thank you all so much again for the hard work and sacrifices you have made, and may God bless you.

You can click here to go to the SONGWRITING page or follow the link at the top of the page!