Dawson Springs

Good.

you got the point i went through this whole range of emotions when totem of skulls was playing where at first i was like god damn you gave i was like cursing and then it just got so noisy and chaotic i started cackling laughing that i'm like why does this exist in the world and then i suddenly come across horrific destroyed twisted signs from the goddamn tornado Because I was going through Dawson Springs.

So then suddenly I'm looking at the apocalypse, listening to Totem of Skulls.

That is all within five minutes.

I'm, uh, I'm performing myself, uh, uh, this weekend.

I'm playing at, uh, uh, Dawson Springs up at the, uh, Bluegrass on, on, uh, Lake Beshear.

Oh, yeah.

Little festival they have going on up there.

Yeah.

Well, when I was a kid, a very young kid, uh, growing up in West Kentucky, I grew up in a town called Dawson Springs, coal mining town.

And my grandfather-

Not Dawson Creek?

There's something on the 10th of October that I wanted to mention.

I'll be doing a solo show in Dawson Springs on October 10th.

And we can talk about this more next week.

But I'll be doing a solo show up there in Dawson Springs at Lake Beshear for a little festival that they're having up there.

So that's what it was.

Sounds good.

are

you? Some place called Dawson Springs.

Where?

Yeah.

Where are you?

Some place called Dawson Springs.

Dawson Springs?

Yeah.

Are always good competition.

Uh, Dawson Springs touches the county on the north side.

They're good competition.

Um, they have been-- They, uh, they're the team that historically has been really good in our region, um, and is rebuilding kind of at, at this point, but they, they're still a good team.

And, uh, uh, that's kinda where we, we are on a, on an interesting uniform path right now.

Um, but, uh, uh, I'm not typically a big purple fan.

But I, I've seen some teams, uh, lately that have a good-- Dawson Springs has a good use of purple in theirs.

Um, so, uh, th- that, that's kind of some of my, my preferences-

Pursuing a vehicle whose driver had reportedly fired shots, the driver also was the subject of a Tennessee Be On The Lookout alert.

26-year-old Edward Brown of Madisonville and 22-year-old Anastasia Payton of Dawson Springs were arrested and lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail on multiple charges.

The vehicle entered Kentucky while being pursued by officers from Portland, Tennessee.

The dispatchers had reported that the driver had fired a weapon during the pursuit.

The farther I've traveled on this tour, though, I've found myself thinking more and more about where I started.

It's difficult to explain what it feels like to sit aboard Air Force One to staff or interview the President of the United States when part of you is still a kid sitting in a school in Dawson Springs, Kentucky.

Dawson Springs is not a place from which people were expected to wind up working for or interviewing the President.

Nobody looked at me on the Little League field in Dawson Springs and said, there goes a future CNN commentator.

In fact, some people who watch CNN today still aren't convinced I should be a CNN commentator.

But that's the great promise of rural America.

Ambition does not recognize county lines.

Potential can be found in every small town and at the end of every country road if we give people the tools and the opportunity and the confidence to pursue it.