First Record At Sixty

Playing in public doesn’t necessarily mean gigging for pay; jam sessions and, to a lesser extent, open stages, provide opportunities to play in clubs.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since this project got underway - as always with recording, it takes longer than it appears likely at first but with a studio in another city as the primary, it certainly takes longer.
In any case, I have been working along in the back end of the […]

CD Premiere at 4th Street Live! for the Conch Republic

The city goes out of its way to help out a couple of private organizations, to the detriment of its other businesses.

The last week has been a bit excessive for an old guy. It started out on Monday, when, after the usual jam/practice at Michael P’s house, I decided to go downtown to Stevie Ray’s for an Open Stage. That proved to be serious schmoozefest - you can read my post about it here.

On Wednesday, […]

The pickers from Anna and Jonesboro Gather in Indiana, still playing the same tunes.

The restarted Wednesday Jam session at the Bluegrass Brewing Company on Theatre Square have been going along pretty well. The layout of the structure, though fundamentally unchanged, has been altered by the addition of large booths in the front area where we had been jamming before, so that it’s now necessary that we move […]

The holidays certainly take their toll on my time; yours as well, I would guess. The recording process got bogged down, too, in part because the studio was tied up over the holidays, then my choice of banjo players got sick on the first of January and was still ill around the last week […]

Part of the process of getting ready to go out and gig (in support of the CD) is playing with other folks, with a particular emphasis on finding possible bandmates. This is especially true for those of us who are past the big six-oh: it’s hard to play three-set gigs solo. I have been jamming […]

The jam session at the BBC on Theatre Square has been suffering from the summertime blues; fewer folks in the room. The Kentucky State Fair has also begun, which generally drags down attendance at lots of events. Nonetheless, last night (August 16), we wound up picking from 7:30 p.m. until 11:10 p.m or so. I […]