I’m sitting in my hotel room here in Indiana on a day off eating Jimmy Johns and watching TV. When you see the same SportsCenter for the 4^th time in a row, it is time to do something else…so I thought I’d drop you a little note to fill you in on what’s been going on. We’ll do it bullet point style cuz that’s how you roll…I think.

Summer Tour with O.A.R.: Absolutely insane. We were on the road for 7 weeks and played the biggest venues I’ve done to date, which included a show at Red Rocks! Marc (O.A.R. lead singer) sang “Standing on a Rooftop” with me for most of the summer and I ended up freestyling on their biggest song “Crazy Game of Poker”. Dope experience for a fan like me!

Corona Light Wide Open Beach Volleyball Tour: Been playing shows for Corona and getting introduced to the beach volleyball world – man do they like to party!

MotoGP at The Indy Motor Speedway: Played two shows this past weekend during the MotoGP race for Honda and Red Bull…if you’re not familiar with the sport it’s definitely worth a Google search and a YouTube video session.

New Music: I’ll be back in LA this fall working on new music for your ears…stay tuned…

Thanks for helping me make this dream possible…

Godspeed,

KJ

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Every time I think “how cool could this actually be”, only to have my mind blown minutes later.

Enjoy …

A’s Connor Jackson on Guitar – Giants Cody Ross rallying the troops

SF Giants: Ryan Voegelsong, Matt Cain, Billy Hall, Cody Ross and Connor Jackson

‘Sweet Caroline’

Team W Hotel Scottsdale

New flavor? Benitentiary! Bad joke. Sorry.

Pic via our boy Josh Madden at (http://mrmean.tumblr.com/)

I’ll give you a quick little breakdown of what I’ve been up to this year, then you can tell me how you are (seriously, email me at Kelley@KelleyJames.com, I’m gonna be pissed if you don’t).

Started the year off with a headlining show at The Roxy here in LA and then bounced out to Park City, Utah to play a few shows at the Sundance Film Festival (reading that sentence back I apparently traveled by pogo stick). The highlight of February was performing two private shows for “The Great One” Mr. Wayne Gretzky in Las Vegas during his fantasy hockey camp. Usually, after more than one night in Sin City I start calling myself the “Not-So-Great-One” and screen all the calls from my bank asking me why I withdrew my limit on every card I own. This trip was no exception.

March’s highlights were shows at SXSW and MLB Spring Training parties in Scottsdale, AZ. Got to see my San Francisco Giants take the field as World Series Champions (shout out to the Bay) and had a few of the players come out to the shows and play on stage with me (we took ground balls for five minutes then did a song).

In April, I went on tour with Mike Posner and we tackled colleges for six weeks all over the Midwest – much love to everyone who came out to those shows. In May and June I played some shows and, most importantly, recorded new music for you. The song I actually wrote about you called, “Greatest Person on the Planet” needed a better triangle solo and will be on my next album. And now I’m about to leave for two months to tour with one of my favorite bands, O.A.R.

Hope to see you at a show soon! And, damn, you look good today!

Godspeed,

KJ

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We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Hoffman – Fowler – Barnes

“Sweet Caroline”

Comma Sutra

Myspace Profile Pic


Ma!!!!!! Meatloaf!
Where’s my protein??!!
Also, do you think you could take a pic of me for my myspace profile …

Nightmares …

Sunday night we went to Jon’s viewing party at The Wynn for the premiere of Celebrity Apprentice. Gonna be a great season. Gary Busey … whaa? Went to the club XS with the group and my crew from the W Hotel Scottsdale to celebrate the fact that it was Sunday night and we didn’t have to go to a coal mine in the morning. Ended that night hanging out with random Ivy League kids at a blackjack table in the Wynn (aka The Michael Jordan of Casinos) at 630am.

Monday I played a show at The Palms … worked on my game a little bit in the Hardwood Suite …

Jon’s view at Surrender

Jon and Kate (my friends would kill me if I made a ‘plus 8′ joke here)

Be back there May 7th … yay?

Always honored to come back home and see so many familiar faces in the crowd.

Thank you!