Our awesome new friend was in fact able to get the two of us some great tickets to the show. Not only that, he was cool enough to upgrade our friends Shannon, Alex, and Ann, too, whom he'd never even met! When we arrived in Charleston (we had a bit of a drive to get there--two hours and four hours respectively), we met up at the venue with our new friend and a couple of others from the band and chatted it up about Portland, Knoxville, and the other shows since we'd seen them in Vienna the week before. As the crowd began to assemble, we picked up our tickets, thanked our new friends for about the hundreth time, and they left to get ready for the show.

As Ned Goold's group took the stage, we could tell that this audience was going to have much more personality than the Vienna crowd--most everyone came in and sat down, and started moving their feet as soon as they went on. They played for about 25 minutes and exited the stage, and the lights came back up. This was our first opportunity to get a good look at the brand-new North Charleston Performing Arts Center. Although its rather small (our preference for seeing Harry), its a beautiful and very intimate place.

When Harry took the stage, the crowd erupted! Unfortunately, we didn't take down a set list, but everything was fantastic. After playing "Nowhere With Love," Harry informed us that his sister was in the audience, but that he had "no idea where she is." He joked about her getting all the brains, and that he was real glad that she'd stopped taking piano lessons, too, because otherwise we'd be there listening to "Suzanna Connick and her Big Band!" He went on and told us how good it was to be back in the South and how excited the band was to be the first act to perform at this beautiful new hall. As he started into the next song, the spotlight lost him for a few seconds, to which he said from the dark in midst of some lyrics, "I'm over here." The crowd ate it up.

Eventually he got into his Cole Porter kick, singing "I Love All of You," which was, like Vienna, dedicated to all the beautiful ladies. He got a little saucy on "I love the East, West, North, and I love the South of you," to which every woman in the place just screamed. Harry, laughing into the microphone, said we were embarrassing him in front of his sister. This time, however, he was able to regain composure before coming down with "the giggles."

The band members had a lot more solo time during this show, Leroy receiving a standing ovation for his phenomenal solos and duels, and Lucien shaking his booty with Harry in the middle of it all. And when they finally did "Mind On the Matter," which we'd been crossing our fingers for all week, Harry and his band blew the doors off the place. Afterwards, we found out why.

When the crowd finally setttled down, Harry began telling us how special it was to have the two most important women in his life with him that evening. He spoke specifically to the married guys in the audience, saying, "I know yall know what I'm talking about here." He starting talking about how Jill rules the roost, calling all the shots. He said before the show she came in and took one look at his new opaque black shirt and said, "You're not wearing that." Then he kind of looked down at his shirt and said, "And actually I do feel a lot like Brian Boitano in this thing," to which the entire crowd roared.

He then went on and said that people are always asking him if he plays love songs for his wife around the house. "Man, six months into the relationship she was like, 'Enough already. Play some of that New Orleans stuff'," she'd say. So he explained that the smokin' version of Mind On the Matter was for her, since she was there, too. Then it seemed that he did a small "Jill concert" in the middle of our show, with an absolutely astounding performance of "Danny Boy" (sorry, Chris!), followed by "It Had To Be You," in which he again switched the lyrics and said, "nobody else gave me a thrill, with all your faults, I love you Jill," and of course, a wave of sighs washed over the crowd. Lucky lady.

Afterwards, Harry wrapped up with "Come By Me" and an encore of "If You Go to New Orleans." He and Lucien once again made spectacles of themselves, and had people rolling in the aisles at their antics. We left the auditorium, feeling so fortunate to have had great seats at this show at which Harry had such an interest in pulling out all the stops for his real-life leading ladies.

Our friend had directed us to the busses prior to the show, so we went back and hung out with the coolest, most down-to-earth fellas this side of the Mississippi (well, and beyond too). We thanked them again and again, and shortly after the show they loaded up and headed to Savannah.

If you guys are reading this, for the 9,472 time, thanks for a week of unbelievable excitement. Yall rock, and we can't wait to see you again. May we suggest Athens AND Columbia?

And to our new friend, keep us posted on the best-sellers, the Wendy's escapades, and any developments in your OJ theories . And the next time you're going to be in Pensacola, shout out at us--Flounder's just added-on a huge new entertainment complex. Drinks on us!