Friday May 4th

5 hours (total= 20 Hours)

Today is drakes birthday. We woke up and did some jamming and reworking of a couple of songs that we are going to start recording by early next week. Drake had a baseball game a little after noon so we got in as much playing as we could before then. When he got back i took him and the rest of the band to a surprise party that i helped put together for drake. We Then ended up preforming a few of our songs with just vocals, two acoustic guitars, and a harmonica. It sounded good and we performed in front of a decent number of people and recieved good feedback. We are excited for the upcoming week when we really get recording final tracks.

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