Singing In The Rain.

It's raining here in TN today,
and I'm still surprised that it's already October.

I'm sitting in my "temporary office",
which is actually just my kitchen table until I enough time off from tour to go buy a desk for my bedroom here in the new house.
Right now, I've got Lenka's new cd coming through my stereo speakers,
and I think it's going to be a good Fall/Winter album to listen to, pretty much daily.

Anyway.
How about an update?

Let's see.
First off, there's good news and one bit of bad news (that actually is good in a way)...
it involves my October/November tour.
So, my October/November tour with Jimmy Robbins has been pushed back a couple of weeks (that's the bad news).
And actually, this isn't bad news at all, because it actually gives me extra time to really get ready for the tour :)
The tour is still going to be the same length,
but it had to be pushed back a bit due to booking reasons.
So yeah, this does mean you (and not to mention, I) have to wait a bit longer for the actual dates announcement, but when it comes this time it's going to be a full list of about 30 dates :)
And that tour is going to start on October 27th now,
so just expect the dates to be announced somewhere around two weeks from now.

Also, I have a two week December tour I'm doing with Vanessa Rose,
and you can actually see the first couple of dates for that now up on my websites ;)

In other news...
if you've been a fan of mine for a while now,
you might recall how I usually release a new holiday album every year...
well, it's about that time of the year where I've started thinking about that.
And the good thing is, usually I don't plan this out until about literally the last week of November,...
but I'm starting early this year to work up some really special stuff for a super special holiday release this year that will totally kick my past holiday albums' asses.
That's all I will say about that right now,
but just be on the lookout around the middle of November for more news on that ;)

Hmm...
what else?
Oh! In case you didn't know,
since I haven't been able to update this monthly blog as much,
I've finally started a daily Backseat Goodbye blog over at Tumblr...
so you should feel free to check that out @ backseatgoodbye.tumblr.com.

I'm also working on a new BackseatGoodbye.com that doesn't suck...
and will finally be 110% functional,...
full of photos, all of my tour info you could ever need, new guitar tabs, and many many many other special things.
I'm hoping to launch that pretty soon :)

Also,
be on the lookout for new BG merch over at backseatgoodbye.storenvy.com soon, too!
I've got a TON of new merch ideas getting put into motion for the coming colder weather to keep you warm ;)
And actually, I'm planning on doing a special thing soon where you all will get to decide which new shirt, hoodie, tote bag, and other merch designs will actually be available for the new Fall/Winter BG Merch Line Launch :)


I'm pretty sure that's all I've got for right now, as far as BG stuff goes.

In other news for myself,
I've really started writing a bunch more for my next poetry book,
and I really like how it's coming along so far.
By the way, my first poetry book is now finally back in stock over at chadsugg.storenvy.com.


And in personal news,
I'm glad to say I'm alive again,
and am very lucky to have a lady in my life.
Many people that have found this out already have been asking if they could look forward to some new BG love songs in the works,...
and the answer to that is, yes ;)
I'll actually be posting a new song later this week in the light of that likeness.


I'm off for now though,
a lot of stuff to work on for the upcoming tours!

Cheers,
Chad

P.S. - For those who are weird like me and like to know what other people are up to, I have a Twitter that you can follow now at twitter.com/backseatgoodbye ;)