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Post by pwfirst on Mar 31, 2011 22:41:52 GMT -5
I was asked by a friend and fellow musician to play at their monthly Gospel jamboree. Glad to report that after I finished doing three songs, no rotten fruit was thrown. I was asked to play with two other bands that night. Bluegrass and Gospel is not really my area of knowledge but it was fun. A lot of 3 chord songs. Playing with banjos and fiddles is fun . A lot of adlibs go on in this type of music. My favorite that night was Amazing Grace. It is great fun to play with others and to get out of your comfort zone every so often. The food was good too.  |
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Post by 469roadking on Apr 1, 2011 21:58:28 GMT -5
COOL!!! It's really good to get out of the comfort zone once in a while. The band I'm with now was my very first foray into country music and I'm having a blast. They've brought me along without too much complaint and I've headed them into the rock and blues direction a little as well. You never know Phil, you could be the next Doc Watson.  |
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Post by melodeous on Apr 2, 2011 13:04:48 GMT -5
Not a country music player or bluegrasser myself, I have had many jams with that genre. I just played a rhythm that worked for the players. It was a good time. That's when I lived near Louisville, Kentucky, and a bunch of older farmers would gather at a place every Saturday at the town music shop where I bought strings and stuff. Always had a good time and, yep, it was a couple hours of three chord songs. Those guys were no strangers to music in general, though. They were surprisingly, to me, pretty savvy in many genres and each of them knew songs that weren't just country. All of them had Martin dreads that were D-41 or better. Farmer's have lot's of money.
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Post by pwfirst on Apr 2, 2011 18:23:14 GMT -5
$8.00 corn this years was very good to the farmers around here this year to. I have a patient in the nursing home that has made musical instruments for years and no long is able to build. He offered me some of his exotic woods that he has collected over the 40 years of building when I told him I was building the mandolins. I feel very fortunate to have this old gentleman as a friend and fellow musician. We have played together in the nursing home a few times. Good fun.
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