Hey,

I just thought I would share this . . . for fun . . .

I got to dance in Alan Jackson's latest video.

You can see it on CMT.com . . . here's a link:

http://www.cmt.com/videos/alan-jackson/197568/small-town-southern-man.jhtml

Just click on that link, or paste that into your browser . . . or if you'd rather, just go to cmt.com and look under new videos . . .

It's being played on the regular CMT channel also of course . . .

A friend (thank you Marjie!) let me know about auditions for dancers for the video . . . I auditioned and got in . . .

I got to spend the day hanging out with three precious little girls (and their mom, who was my dance partner for the video).  I danced right in front of Alan Jackson over and over . . . cool I guess.  (That didn't make it into the video).

The cuts are so fast in this video that I've had to watch it carefully to find myself and the girls . . . but we are there!

The nine year old, Ashton, in particular is 'featured' . . . she is the girl who runs up to the 'main' couple and cuts in . . . dances with the guy in uniform . . . (she's supposed to be his daughter).

There's one quick glimpse of four girls sitting on a bench.  The first girl on the left is Kendall, a three-year-old who I held for most of the day.  She wanted my attention, and got it.  The third girl is Presley, the middle sister (six years old).  What a cutie!

We spent a lot of time dancing with the girls (because the director asked us to . . .) and dancing around in front of Alan and quickly past the camera . . . taking direction . . . I was real curious to see how it all ended up edited together.  Most of it of course, is edited out . . . but I count about 7 QUICK shots of "me" . . . 

So . . . where am I?

After the second time through the chorus, look for the solid bright blue shirt. In fact, the first shot of me is just my left side/shoulder and then a very quick glimpse of part of my head.  Right after that are a couple quick shots of me spinning my partner and smiling.  Then, just at the start of the third chorus and late in that chorus, I'm in the background again.  At the very end of the video, I'm wearing a different costume, and I'm the one at the bottom right corner of the picture, wearing a hat and vest and bell-bottom pants (that aren't showing at the bottom thank goodness for the sake of continuity!)

That's supposed to be a forties costume . . . we wore costumes from three different eras . . . '40s, '70s and present day (our own clothes).  Don't worry . . . I have trouble following this thing and I heard that song over and over and over!

I just did this for the heck of it . . . for fun . . . and I thought I would share with you for the same reason (none really!)

Later!

- Jeff