Sarah McQuaid: Tour Diary

Before leaving Nashville I had two meetings. The first was with Ralph Murphy at ASCAP. Ralph was a bit late (he’d had a phone call from a different Sarah cancelling their meeting, and thought it was me), so we had ample time to gaze open-mouthed at the

Our host in Nashville, Kari Estrin (PR genius, manager extraordinaire, career consulting guru -- and a terrific cook), had invited us to brunch, so we set off from Chattanooga in a bit of a hurry, in consequence of which I managed to leave behind two tops I’d washed

On Saturday morning we finally got to meet Jil Chambless, who’d had a gig of her own the previous evening and hadn’t got home until after we were in bed. She made Martin a wonderfully healthy breakfast -- see how happy he looks to be eating it:

Waking up on Friday morning, I heard rain hammering down outside, but by the time we were ready to head out for breakfast the sun was already starting to come out. We found a cafe with free wifi, ordered coffee and blueberry bagels with cream cheese, and

By this morning, T-shirt weather had well and truly arrived, in astonishing contrast to the blizzards that had marred the first week of the tour. We spent a beautiful sunny day driving across the Mississippi River and south through Tennessee, listening to the equally