Be sure to come out this Friday, January 11th to Amos' South End for the Beards BeCause Finale Party. We're honored to be asked to help out with this event. Beards BeCause is a fundraising event that involves a group of volunteer men growing beards for two months to raise funds and awareness for the Battered Women's Shelter of Charlotte, North Carolina. Each participant will be responsible growing a beard, raising donations, and awareness for the cause. Along with us, there'll be The Belmont Playboys, The Loose Lugnuts and GCDC. There'll be Drink Specials, Silent Auctions, Beard Contest Judging by the Charlotte Roller Girls, and Creative Beard Trimming by Bang Bang Salon! Sure to be a big crowd. Check the website to see the progress on the beards!

We've recently added our Self Titled album to the new online digital world. It's now available at iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, Napster, music.com, and GroupieTunes Mobile Ringtones. We've got links on our Music page to the iTunes link for easy access. If you have a minute, please review the album on iTunes.

If you haven't checked in a while, we've added a few photos to the site.

The Red Shoes for Rock 'N' Roll show was a big success! We were able to raise a total of $6,600 from the event! We really appreciate everybody coming out and helping with the event. We hope to make this an annual event and if you would like to get involved, visit the website and add your email to the contact list.

We've started a website for the event and hope to continue doing the show for years to come. Please visit the website and add your email to the list to get updates and news on this year's benefit and notifications about future events.

Hope to see ya'll out there!

Danny started playing music with his Dad's bluegrass band as a kid. Lee and Danny then formed their heavy metal band, New York. He could shred a guitar just as well as he could a banjo or mandolin! He taught guitar, mandolin, and banjo at Woody's Music for over 10 years. He was a huge musical influence on all of us. I hope ya'll had the pleasure of meeting him and/or hearing him. We'll miss him.

The memorial service will be this Saturday at 11am at Greene Funeral Home. CASUAL dress is REQUIRED. Danny specifically asked that no one dress up. Danny's trademark was his Red Chuck Taylor Converse shoes and his red beret. If you have either, please wear them to the service. A lot of us will be wearing red converse in his honor. He wanted a celebration where friends could share music stories, so bring a few if you have 'em.

We'll be getting together a concert in his honor within the next month or so. We'll be raising money for hospice, the kidney foundation a very possibly a fund for musicians without insurance. We'll keep you posted.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Danny Guyton Fund, PO Box 904, Rock Hill, SC 29731 or through Woody's Music.

Woody's Music
946 Charlotte Ave.
Rock Hill, SC 29745
803-324-9663

So you've probably been wondering what we've been up to lately. Or maybe not. Either way, here goes.

REAL BIG NEWS, David Letterman saw our videos on YouTube.com and has asked us to be on the show this season. Nah, just kidding! : ) That would be really cool though. If you haven't heard, Mike and Barrett are the proud parents of a new baby girl, Anna Quinn Elder. Yes, we now have Truckstop Preachers Onesies. She was born October 8th, 2006. Everything went well and they're all doing great. Congratulations Mike!

We've done several shows since the last news update and would like to thank all those folks we played with and those putting the shows on. David Childers at the Milestone, Alvin Crowder at the Lincoln Theatre, VA, Justin and Douglas at the Charlotte Oktoberfest, Andrew Clarkson and Communication Management, Leslie and Stephen in Bostic, NC, Mark and Lisa for the Honky Tonk Hoedown, Jem and the Hypertonics, Jill and Chris O'Neil, Gary at Pucketts Farm Equipment, The Canyoneros and all the guys at the Double Door, The Loose Lugnuts and The Evening Muse, Roger at Tropical Escape, and Marianne at the Hideaway BBQ. Everyone of these shows were great! We had great time playing them and meeting everybody there! Let's do it again!

So you're probably wondering if we've loaded up on the wagon and quit playing honky tonks, right? No, we're not in rehab. We've finally decided to take some time and write some more material. Man, we've been lazy! There's a few songs we plan on unveiling for the next couple of shows. We'll be tweaking them before we put them on a disc, so let us know what you think. We hope to have new CD out this summer.

We'll be heading up to Raleigh for our second show at the Hideaway BBQ. It was a record turnout for the place back in December. They've got some incredible BBQ! We hope ya'll can make it out there!