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Introducing the Gary Allan collection

We all know Gary Allan is one cool guy, but now Zazzle agrees with us. 

Zazzle is an online merchandise company that seems like a pretty big deal.  From Gary's site:

This afternoon the country rebel announced a deal with Zazzle.com. Zazzle is the only on-demand retail platform to offer billions of high quality products, many of which are customizable and able to be produced within 24 hours. In signing with Zazzle, Allan has become the first major country artist to join a client roster of some of the top pop, rock and R&B artists in the world.

Zazzle will be Allan’s online and on-demand custom merch partner, providing premier services for The Gary Allan Custom Shop on www.zazzle.com (going live this afternoon) as well as on Gary’s website www.garyallan.com. Fans can choose from an array of Gary Alan designs including images and graphics from Gary’s personal collection, tour graphics as well as choose from a variety of apparel lines including American Apparel, Alternative Apparel, Edun Live, Hanes, Gilden and Bella. Fans can customize their own hats, t-shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts, mugs, stickers, bags, keychains, aprons and various other merchandise. Limited only to your imagination, the Gary Allan Custom Shop will be online just in time for Christmas for Gary Allan’s own Black Friday.

If you visit the site here they have all kinds of goodies including t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, key chains, buttons.  I could totally do all my Christmas shopping there, just not sure if the people on my list would appreciate the gifts as much as I would. 

Gary Allan and his surprise guest

Awww, any story with Gary Allan in it is a good story. 

Country Weekly told about Gary playing the KICKS 101.5 Country Jam 2008 when he had a surprise guest join him on stage.  While Gary sang “Drinkin’ Dark Whiskey” Heidi Newfield, who was also a performer for the event, joined him on stage and played the harmonica. 

Gary said:  “Heidi’s a super talent and she can jam with us anytime.”

Woman better just stay away from my man if she knows what's good for her.  Oh but I do love a good Gary Allan story.  More pics from the event here.

My honey's tour schedule

 

My sweetie, AKA Gary Allan, has let the world know a few of his tour stops, at least until February of 2009.  Hopefully he'll hear my pleas and make another trip to Idaho sometime after February.   

October 2008
30 - Austin, TX - Nutty Brown Cafe

November 2008
1 - Alpharetta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
6 - Montgomery, AL - Montgomery Performing Arts Center
7 - Kinder, LA - Coushatta Casino Resort
8 - Fairhope, AL - Oak Hollow Farm
20 - Effingham, IL - The Rosebud Theatre
21, 22 - Harris, MI - Island Resort & Casino

December 2008
5 - Davenport, IA - Great River Hall
6 - Merrillville, IN - Star Plaza Theatre
7 - Rochester, NY - Mayo Clinic Center Auditorium
11, 12 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
13 - Wendover, NV - Peppermill Wendover Casino

January 2009
30 - Bossier City, LA - Horseshoe Casino Riverdome
31 - Robinsonville, MS - Horseshoe Casino

February 2009
6 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
20 - Norman, OK - Riverwind Casino
21 - Dallas, TX - State Fairgrounds
27 - Elizabeth, IN - Horseshoe Casino

You can't keep a good man down

I'm so happy to see my secret husband, Gary Allan, back out in public after the death of his father last month. 

Sunday night he joined Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Petty to raise money for the Dale Jr. Foundation which supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation as well as the Victory Junction Gang Camp (co-founded by Petty) which provides once-in-a-lifetime camp experiences for children with chronic medical conditions.

Gary performed at Dale Jr.’s Whiskey River Bar in Charlotte, NC.   

“It was a great night, a special event to be a part of,” Gary said. “You couldn’t ask for a better cause or a nicer bunch of guys to work with.”

Check out some pictures here.

I've died and gone to Gary Allan heaven

I love Flickr, you really can find so many awesome pictures there.  I often wonder if someone will end up here and go hey, those are my pictures, what the hell are you doing???  I hope nobody ever gets mad at me.  Honestly, Flickr is a lot of times the only place I can find some of the pictures I really want.  Besides that, they include an embed code, it's like saying, here...have fun.

Anyway, I was surfing Flickr - because it's like my new hobby and I'm completely addicted - when I came across Nabrukuga's pics.  Have you ever wondered how people come up with their user names?  Anyway, he/she has a ton of Gary Allan, Keith Urban, Craig Morgan, and Shooter Jennings pictures.  The best part is they are close up and clear.  It's not often that you find pictures from concerts taken by fans that aren't far, far away or really, really dark.  They're great. 

Check them out here.  Thanks Nabrukuga, you've fulfilled my Gary Allan fetish for the day, you're my new hero.  The pictures from below came from another great batch of pictures on Flickr here. 

Sad day for Gary Allan

My heart goes out to Gary Allan whose dad, Harley Herzberg, passed away yesterday, 9/24. 

Rather than flowers or cards the family asks that donations be made to the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center here.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Harley Herzberg Memorial Fund
c/o Gifts Processing
VU Station B #357727
Nashville, TN 37235

New Gary Allan

My honey has new music.  Yeah baby!!!  Here's Gary Allan's "She's So California." 

Seeing how I was born in California I will go ahead and announce to the world that this song is totally about me.  We can just forget about the fact that I haven't lived in Cali since I was about a month old, those are just minor details.

Gary Allan, just because

I just can't hide my love for Gary Allan, I really can't.  So just because, here's Gary at the KMPS Country Jam.  You can see a bunch of more pictures here.

I didn't make it to see Gary Allan (sad face)

Well I wanted to go and see Gary Allan so badly when he played at the fair last week, but after a trip to Portland one weekend and then a trip to Seattle the next (for a total of about 1700 miles) plus all the running around Seattle I didn't much feel like trekking the 50 miles or so to Boise to see Gary.  Sorry, I love the guy but I was totally pooped. 

I did get a picture in the Country Aircheck newsletter today of Allan with KIZN's Rich Summers, though, so I guess I will just have be happy with a picture.  I must say, though, a picture is not actually worth a 1000 words, but it'll have to do.

On the Gary Allan watch

CMT has a funny story about my favorite lust singer, Gary Allan.  Apparently Gary's tour bus decided to make a run to Pat's King of Steaks in Philadelphia after a recent concert for what is supposed to be a dang yummy Philly cheese steak sandwich.  When the tour bus pulled up, 10 people got out and made their orders.  Reportedly the tour bus was bigger than the shop. 

Someone has GOT to have pictures of this. 

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