COLD Night - HOT Jam

It was a good one at the River City Grill tonight! We had the regulars, Jason, Doug, Brittany, Tim M., Corey, Chris, Daniel, Richard, Tim P., and Wayne. About midway through, Mike Conner and John Miller showed up. There was another gentlemen with them that I didn't get a name from, as well. Mike (FiddleFest) and John (lots of big name bad credits) brought some hard driving picking and singing to the group!

I thought it may be an off night with the weather, but I gotta say it turned out pretty darned good as the night went on. We all told John and Mike to make sure they come back.

Missed our old pals, Ralph and Joe. Don't know where Joe was, but Ralph was trying to hold off a little illness. Get well soon!

New faces at the Jam Last Night

A good jam. I haven't been in weeks due to work busy-ness, so I enjoyed my ownself.
Down at the end of the circle was a group of guys who said they were from Blacksburg. Hope they come back. We always need new blood, and the on fella played a groovy instrument that he said was Swedish in origin. I thought he called it a Nick Harp, and then he clarified that it was called a nyckelharpa.

It was groovy and he could play.

Hope they all come back.

Java Brothers Rocked WVRU

I was a bit disappointed with how the vocals were mixed for our in-studio songs, but hey, whatcha gonna do?
The stuff from the CD sounded good, because the CD sounded good!

It was fun to hang with Tim Jackson in the Listening Room.

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Grille Power

The jam thrives. Had a fine time on Monday down on 3rd street. It was good to see Asenath and my pal Harlow. That kid's bigger every damn day.

We had our team all back from Galax - Jason, Corey, Ginny, Ralph, Frankie, Richard.

Maybe y'all can tell me the memorable tunes, but I thought we was cookin' pretty good.

Great time in the River City

A lot of folks are in Galax and a lot of folks are taking their last vacation of the summer -- which meant the River City Grill was a little less crowded Monday night, but the jam was outstanding. The group was tight and got into some material we'd left behind -- Stuck in the Middle of Nowhere, Fire on the Mountain, Lonesome Pine (in B!)... lots of stuff! Friends, remind me what we played!!!

Been a long time since we rock and rolled...

The JB's are trained so well now it's ingrained in their brains. Freeze them, put them on ice until 2067 (Summer of Love II), defrost them, and they'll play you a "Little Georgia Rose" that'll do you some good. Though the JB's are rarely all together in the same place, round em up and they know what to do without event thinkin' about it.

The JB's did some good tonight over at the River Course Member Guess Jamboree. They tore it up.

Good sound, a groovy New River-side environment, dinner, drinks, and a beautiful sunset made for a fine place to play some music.

Hope they bring us back.

Another Good 'un

The jam was hitting on almost all cylinders again last night. We were missing Ralph, which caused a sputter or two in the engine, but it ran pretty good anyway! We had another really good crowd in attendance, and a fine group of pickers. Those in attendance were: Doug, Avery, Richard, George, Curtis, Christian, Maynard, Nancy, Jason, Joe, Tim P., Dale, Rob, Dan, and myself. (Hope I didn't miss anybody!) We got a card signed and sent out to fellow jammer, Wilson in between tunes, played a couple of requests from the listeners, and in general had a right good time! Looking forward to Ralph returning next week!