We had a blast in New Mexico. Every tour we pick a weekend to all bring our boys out. Since this run was close to home we thought we’d make it this week, and on top of it, we were so close to Carlsbad Caverns, it was a perfect opportunity for a trip.

After the caves we had a FANTASTIC crowd. You guys sang loud and sang the whole time. Crowds like that make our day.
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Thanks for a great day. Great coffee. Great bike trails.  And a lovely downtown.  This was the last show this week.  We’re excited to get home and see our families.  Next week we’re in New Mexico and Texas.  Who’s coming to the shows?

Set List: Revolution | So Long Self | This Life | Won’t Back Down | Move | Alright | Crazy Enough | Holdfast | Word Of God Speak | Homesick/Finally Home | God With Us | Beautiful | Your Reign | Imagine | Where The Streets Have No Name | All Of Creation

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Great show tonight and a GREAT crowd. You guys sang loud and sang the whole time!  We were only the second show ever in this building so it was pretty cool to be a part of the start of this place.  Great building.  Great crowd.  Great night.  We’ve got one more show this week, and it’s our last week with Dave Barnes.  Lincoln, NE, we’ll see you tomorrow.

Oh… and here’s a video of Bart’s new Twitter series “Life Lessons”

Set List: Revolution | So Long Self | This Life | Won’t Back Down | Move | Alright | Crazy Enough | Word Of God Speak | Homesick/Finally Home | God With Us | Beautiful | Your Reign | Imagine | Where The Streets Have No Name | All Of Creation

Thanks Greenville. You guys were great tonight. We absolutely love this town. All joking aside we missed Jim tonight, but glad we made it through. Thanks for coming out tonight.

Our keyboard player Jim couldn’t make it to the show today due to a stomach flu, but it didn’t seem to bother Greenville, SC at all. We missed you anyway Jim. We’ll have some pictures from the night a little later.

There’s something about playing in these old theaters.  Today was an amazing venue right on the edge of the Ohio River in West Virginia.  An absolutely gorgeous room and an amazing crowd to go with it.  Thanks so much for making it out to the show.  We’re headed home for a couple days and we’ll kick this back off next week.

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This tour has been a variety of different venues from theaters to arenas. Tonight was The War Memorial Arena in Johnstown, PA and a lot of you showed up to sing loud. Several of us took some time today to walk around town and check out some of the old buildings and great downtown here in Johnstown. Thanks for coming out tonight. We had a blast.

Today we decided to dare each other to do a specific dance at the beginning of “Alright” during our set. Anyone who didn’t do their dance would owe the other guys their per-diem for the week. Above is what happened. We’ll let you be the judge if everyone did their parts. What do you think?

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We started the day at Star 99.1 and had a blast chatting with the folks there. Tonight we had an absolutely amazing crowd tonight in New Jersey. We always have a great time when we come up here and tonight was no exception. You all came out to sing and sing loud. And there were a lot of you. Thanks for all coming out and thanks to the State Theatre for having us. We’ll absolutely be back.

There’s a couple new things we are doing different on this tour to make it a little more fun from a “web nerd” standpoint.  While we aren’t able to broadcast this tour, we have done a couple things to make it a little more interactive for the folks at the show.

First:  Gowalla.  We’ve been able to create a way where anyone coming to the show can check in at the tour.  Up until now location based checking in was just that.  Location based.  With the help of our friends at Gowalla, we’ve been able to bring the “location” of Lovewell Live with us.  That means every venue you will be able to check in at the show.  And here’s why you want to do that.  We’re able to track how many shows you check into and we love to give stuff away to those that stand out.  So make sure to sign up for Gowalla and become our friend.

Second:  For all you smartphone users out there, and we know there’s a lot of you.  Make sure you take a second and download a QR Scanner app for you phone before you come to the show.  Sprinkled around the venue will be these codes to scan and when you scan it with your phone we’ve got a little something special for you.  We’re calling it the Lovewell Live Giveaway, so if that’s not a hint, we’re not sure what is.

So there we are.  Check in at every MercyMe show you go to on Gowalla and make sure to have your phone scanners ready at the show.  We know it’s a lot to take in, but we can’t wait to see you at the show.