Good morning and Happy Turkey Day!

Ashley here...just got a sec to finally write my story (Robert...it's done! )

Well I could tell the stories of the **few** drunken to the point of obliteration nights I have shared with many of you at Goobs and Southern Comfort. But I would prefer to tell you how I actually got up to sing in the first place and then the start of Ashbree.

While working at Southern Comfort, I was threatened with my job (I still think he was serious lol) if I did not sing a karaoke duet with Lee. So I said fine, it was a song that wasn't difficult and the girl part was small. So that got me on a stage in front of people for the first time since my middle school years. Then while Off Key was doing monday shows at SoCo and I was working them, we began to have like three or four singers... because it was a rather slow night for a while (hence why the shows are no longer on Mondays and now its packed lol) and I decided I would get up there and make an ass of myself a few times. We started doing kamkize karaoke and I got kinda into it. Next thing you know I'm at Goobs with Aubs on Saturday nights and I just gave up on caring about blowing people's ear drums out!  Sissy and Aubs will both sit there and say IT TOOK YOU ALMOST TWO YEARS TO GET UP THERE AND NOW LOOK AT YOU! And it's true, I get up there now with no fear. And serenade people shit faced with REALLY loud songs like Call me When Your Sober, then I get into A Money gangsta shit and do some baby got back, and I might end it with a soft love ballad. Ya never know! I'm full of surprises!!   "A Money!"

As for Ashbree, it all started with one song. "Like We Never Loved At All". When I first started going to Goobs, that song was still a little senstive for both Aubree and myself, and to add some comic relief to it as it was sung, we decided to interpretive dance. Although I paid the price the next morning with lots of bruises on my knees from sliding on the floor, it was all worth it in the end. From then on, drunk or sober, Ashbree comes out to entertain the masses. I don't know if I would be as into karaoke as I have become without Ashbree Interpretive Dance Inc. It addes an all new flava to going out!

At the shows, I have had the opportunity to get to know a lot of really cool people! And I <3 them all! Anyone who is willing to sit with me after I dance around like a moron and do backbends in the middle of the bar is cool as shit in my book! Thanks for all the memories guys and I look forward to those yet to come!   

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