Inta Akerberga facebook, photos, More Casey James

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See profile pictures. the one I like has light coming down from above, blue background and strong contrast. Caption "Looks like Jesus"
 Maybe just an angel...

Watching Casey play pool

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That is me sitting on a stool in the background. Looking down at my camera. Casey was playing pool with his bandmates.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1931740856285&set=at.1931738456225.113785.1325160624.625381401&type=1&theater

copy & paste this in the search bar to see where I was sitting nearby while Casey played pool. He had finished playing on stage and greeting fans for a while. He was approached by fans quite a few times for photos etc between turns. But he got to play a good bit of pool. about 11:15 pm he quit. Then he and Todd walked back into the crowd and disappeared. I took Janice and Artist back to their Inn & drove back to my parent's home about 30 miles away.

ACM weekend "VEGAS BABY!!!"

there is a series of photos here. Includes Casey at ACM awards red carpet photo in blazer & lavender shirt

http://twitpic.com/photos/PaulaMxx

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=t.100001007980071#!/photo.php?fbid=10150172753964365&set=a.441030864364.232834.540004364&theater
Getty Images did some awesome shots I found these on facebook


http://www.99kisscountry.com/pages/ACMAwards2011.html  8 nice photos from interview

http://cbsrsea.cbsradio.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?vt1=v&clipFormat=flv&clipId1=5719197&at1=Entertainment&h1=ACM%20Sat%20Casey%20James&flvUri=&partnerclipid=&rnd=5555932

It's a beautiful thing"
It's a newer age that people want to know more about In that I'm amazingly blessed I've got great fans
when i'm out and about i hang as long as i can
i've been so busy trying to get the music out there and makin it right
I feel like were really about to make a lot of progress on it
Yawns covers mouth
one hour of sleep
I wrote 60 songs in a short period of time
Thanks a lot Man
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Feb 8,2011  Paula Mulgrew posted on twitpic Paulmxx said I love this picture
http://twitpic.com/3xqu7e see more in her series
I have great fans video interview (blue henley shirt)
Saturday ACM weekend   KMPS.com
http://cbsrsea.cbsradio.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?vt1=v&clipFormat=flv&clipId1=5719197&at1=Entertainment&h1=ACM%20Sat%20Casey%20James&flvUri=&partnerclipid=&rnd=5555932

The judges are great video interview after revisiting American Idol
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT2U5fk5wrI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
visit CD7010 youtube channel for more of soundcheck
kiss posted 2 interviews . the first talks about Casey James gambling style
Casey says "I don't drink"
He goes on to say that he gambled a little bit but doesn't consider it to even be gambling, because he is not trying to make money. He just uses the $100 bucks and when it's used, he's gone.

2011 ACM Awards: By popular demand, more Casey James! (And that is a beautiful thing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1-hDLHNEU&feature=player_embedded#at=29     or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1-hDLHNEU

He refers to two songs Hold You in My Arms by A. Montaine

and said he loved If I Die Young by The Band Perry " I could listen to it a kabillion times"

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http://www.99kisscountry.com/pages/ACMAwards2011.html
8 photos of Casey, click on the words Part 4

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@PaulaMxx Did you see this one?

 

Casey James at the ACM awards weekend in Vegas

Casey played on Friday on an outdoor stage at the first ever Fan Jam for 6 songs
There were photos in a green v neck teeshirt and the blue plaid shirt
Soundcheck was real good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVfR1gQqx_M  Let's Don't Call It a Night

while there in Las Vegas, he gambled a little bit and talked about it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8U-QTgc9J8&NR=1

Casey had a 1 second appearance seen on Youtube on the red carpet
He had his photo taken wearing the dark blazer and a violet shirt (Very similar/Same as he wore to sing Blue Skies)
Casey attended the awards program
There was an after party. He performed Liza Jane and Let's Dont Call It a Night one cover and one original

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There was an audio feed which was very bad quality, just good enough to identify what he sang.25 people were on the conference call for about 45 minutes, also chatting online through the CaseyJamesBlog link.

Again Shari and Cindy were thanked for their keeping us connected
Casey had an interview and talked about his great fans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1-hDLHNEUHad an interview with Kiss99 about songs he liked (If I Die Young)


http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=t.100001007980071#!/profile.php?id=100001007980071
This link should go to Cheryl Sack's facebook photo page. She has a nice collection of Casey, David Cook & others
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http://twitpic.com/4gvq3f  Nice in his blue plaid shirt with yellow guitar

Bulletproof lyrics & Zimbio photostream link

http://yfrog.com/user/rjnelson785/photos Thank you Rhonda for all these great photos of Casey James playing in Vegas! Very good stuff!

http://wycd.radio.com/2011/04/02/acm-fremont-street-performances-day-1-photos/#photo-32

http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Casey+James/American+Idol+Finale+2010+Arrivals/H0oTRfFVB0o

http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Casey+James/46th+Annual+Academy+Country+Music+Awards+Concerts/mvDFbnDKDaC         Over 100 photostream of Casey!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8U-QTgc9J8

 http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1498532802970

I listened to Bulletproof from 5 youtube videos from different concerts. Seems he changed it up a bit now & then.

 "My name is Casey James and I'm going to play y'all some songs tonight"       
 Little Rock AR 3-4-11 Kansas City 3-25-11 North Charleston 3-11-11 Bloomington 3-19/20?2011


Bulletproof

*drumbeat, guitar lead*

I'm on the hoof
I'm on the loose
Feel like honkin'
like a long necked goose
Look at me baby
I'm feelin' like I'm
bulletproof!
Crank it up
get into town           or to hit the town     head into town  

I know the best little honky tonk
for miles around
That's the truth Lord
I'm feelin like I'm
bulletproof!!!                             

I want to be there
in that crowd;
I want the music
up way too loud.
i want to juke joint jump

and rock n roll
to the end of the night babe.
Don't try to stop me                    (Bloomington he did second ending both times, replacing don't try to stop me...)
It ain't no use
there ain't no tellin
what I'm gonna do
Can't you see honey
I'm feelin like I'm bulletproof                       

(honky tonk piano & electric guitars interlude with steady drumbeat)   1:00 -1:25

I want to be there
in that crowd
I want the music
up way too loud
i want to juke joint jumpin
and rock n roll
to the end of the night   (YEAH)
I can't stop
I can't quit
I'm like a stick of dynamite
and my fuse is lit
Can't you see babe or Can you hear me (ARK) Can you see me (Bloomington)
I'm feelin like I'm
bulletproof
yeah yeah babe
I'm feelin like I'm
bulletproof!!

Can you hear me (ARK) or yeah yeah (KC)
I'm feelin like I'm
bulletproof!!!!            

Another fan gave me this feedback. This is from @ncountrygrl from MN whom I spent time with at the KC show last week:

the best I can make out of that one line is:

"I wanna Juke-jumpin', drivin', rock and roll
 til the end of the night, babe"

Delbert has songs about Juke-joints, but I can't make it into that at all. Maybe juke-jumping is the same as what we Northerners call bar-hopping?  (Oh, I think so--I just found an old song called "Juke-Joint Jumping"
I thought that was right so I added it to the lyrics. Another thought she had was that the first line is "I'm off the hook" I don't think that is correct. Do you hear him sing that? I believe he is using the slang term " I'm on the hoof" which is "on foot" Idiom Dictionary defines it this way:
on the hoof 

1. (British & Australian) if you make a decision on the hoof, you make it quickly to react to a situation which is happening, and do not have time to think about it carefully I don't want to make a decision on the hoof -- I need to give this some thought.

2. (British & Australian) if you do something on the hoof, you do it while you are walking around doing other things He's so busy, he usually has lunch on the hoof.

 

Casey loves to have fun! He will go where the action is! 

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My turn came to meet Casey James!

It was a cold and windy gray afternoon. The Casey fans had exchanged info on who would be there so we could meet ahead of the doors opening. We had fun meeting each other; for me everyone was new to meet in person. We stayed in our cars until it was time to stand in line. We could hear soundcheck coming through the building. Finally I heard Casey's music intro and got happy! I heard his voice and knew he had made it there! He had been in LA watching Sugarland tape the American Idol performance the day before. We were admitted and milling around with taped music. It was not very full of people at this point. I heard that Casey was playing pool and went to the back of the football field shaped bulding.
There Casey was playing pool before he went on stage! He was talking to LaDonna a long time! She posed for a photo with him and I toook a photo of her then too. He asked hismanager wasn't it about time for the show to start? He replied to see these two more, and I was next! I showed him two photo/cards which I had brought along from the Casey James fan club Christmas card exchange. He looked at them a few seconds while I told him I was a member of the fan club, then I asked him to initial them. He said Sure! and turned to the pool table and wrote Thank You and his initials on them. I said I watched everything that was posted on youtube and kept up with his family and dogs. Then LaDonna took this photo of us where I looked up at the side of his face. Then I gave him a hug. He had on a blue and red plaid shirt. Tall thin Texan!  No necklace that I could see. Blue jeans and brown cowboy boots. His 3 rings.
After that he played his songs which were rockin' and the band was so good too. I took several photos. A couple were of my new friends getting videos with their phones. I was by the stage edge as he walked off and called out "Do you have a guitar pick to throw?" "What?" he stopped and I asked again. (I had seen him throw picks out at summer tour concerts) He said, "I just have one for the whole night" then he thought a second, dug in his pocket and handed down to me an orange pick. I guess he figured he was done playing for now. He made this fan girl happy! I said thank you sir and he walked offstage.  As I was looking at the pick at the end of Casey's music, I saw the little blue bag in my hand and I thought I'd lost my chance to give it when Casey left the stage. So I asked David to take it to him! He took it!
I thought that might be the end, but happily I was so wrong. He appeared in the crowd and got a LOT of attention. He looked real good. His hair was loose and his eyes were shining. People were flocking to him. A female near me said "WHO is HE?' I simply said Casey James! It was real noisy with music and people talking. Cameras were flashing. There were no lines, no structure of meet and greet. It was fluid and natural. People moved toward him then made way for others.
I also got more time to talk to him while he was playing pool later. I approached him and talked a little, but I hung back around the wall and watched him relax playing pool mostly. I told him I had never gone to a bar before, that was how far I crossed my boundaries to come hear him. He said something about the audience needing to hear the message. I was not drinking. Casey wasn't either. I said I appreciate that you drink water. He said "Always! Where IS my water" and looked around. Quite a few times fans came to meet him and get a photo. I was taking pictures of people I didn't know who were getting pictures with him! Just wanted more shots! One woman hooked her leg up into his left arm to pose! Oh, and he was winning the  pool games too.
 I met David his bandmate and talked to him about the video Sugarland put up. He wanted to know how it had come out as he had not seen it.  Also said a few words to the drummer while he was eating and asked him his name. Someone had brought boxed food to them and they sat in the back corner and ate. Casey threw the trash away. Casey walked around again in the crowd. I could see his bus out the backdoor which was open about a foot. There was a man stationed there to watch the door. Casey was near the door. He had his jacket on because the temperature had gotten cold and windy. He had put his hair in a ponytail by then too.  He greeted some more people, then saw me lingering around and put out his arm to give me a hug. That was neat cuz he initiated it. I asked him when was he going back to Nashville and he said tomorrow. He looked like that was a happy thought. I told him I would come to see him again. It was loud. I don't think he could hear me as I am a  foot shorter than him. Mostly you had to talk to someone's ear! It seemed to me that Casey paid no attention to the other music that was onstage. He walked away into the people and I lost sight of him. I found out he had gone to see Karen and Linda at their reserved table.  Karen had a hurt foot and had to sit all evening so he went to her. Linda took some great photos and helped make the audio feed from her phone. Later he played more pool with a fan. He left the pool area ablout 11:15 and my 2 twitter friends and I left the Whiskey Tango for the night. Casey had not left according to the man at the back door.
So I got 2 hugs, 2 autographs, 3 times to talk, a bunch of photos and then at the end I talked to Todd his manager. Todd is really nice! I told him I had put a DVD of Casey's set from the Charlotte concert in the gift bag I did up for Casey. So Todd said Casey hadn't brought his computer to Kansas City but they would watch it when they got back. I sent a facebook message to Sue who had taken the video in Charlotte and sent me the DVD that I gave to him; she thought that was cool.
  There were 8 women there from twitter/fan club, +2 of their friends.  LaDonna was the one who found out about the event and spread the word. The others of us drove many hours or flew in. my family lives 30 miles from the bar so I got a home visit, but I drove 11.5 hours each way. "I just Like to Drive" There is a strong connection between the fans of Casey James. The number of his twitter followers has been increasing dramatically recently. He has a youtube channel and a website too, all in early develpoment stages. You can go to the Casey James page on facebook too. Look for the photo of the blue plaid shirt and the blue guitar. It is  his official Sony picture.

Casey James' photo: Hey Y'all, tune into #Idol this Thursday night to see my friends @Sugarlandmusic perform. It'll be awesome!