{"id":80,"date":"2007-11-01T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=80"},"modified":"2007-11-27T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T20:40:36","slug":"more-moar-bluegrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"More, MOAR Bluegrass!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my earliest posts on this blog was about my regular Friday Night Jam<\/a> group, and then I recently posted about another monthly jam<\/a> I discovered here in Chicago. However, now that I’ve got my folding banjo<\/a> that I can stuff into my backpack, I’ve discovered that the real fun is to hunt for open jam sessions when I travel around the country!<\/p>\n

When I was in eastern North Carolina in September, I got word of a great local bluegrass group playing in a tiny town 30 minutes away. So my father-in-law and I drove over to Fountain, N.C. General Store<\/a>, and it was quite a scene!<\/p>\n

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The ‘general store’ had odd books and knickknacks for sale on odd shelves… in the back was a candy and ice-cream shop. The town was extremely tiny, and the audience was a bizarre blend of urban hipsters (just driven in from bigger cities) and small-town people straight out of central casting (presumably from the town itself?)<\/p>\n

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The group began to warm up and tune the instruments. I eventually got photos of the banjo player, bass, and guitar player using a super-wide aperture lens, sans flash. And oh yeah, the music was excellent<\/em> as well! Of particular note was the fiddler, who invited his 12-year-old daughter to come up and play duets with him. She really roused the crowd!<\/p>\n


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Finally, when I was in Bay Area last week (a standard visit to Google HQ), I got word of a monthly jam at the Atlas Cafe<\/a> in San Francisco. I drove up with some other Googlers, and we crowded onto stage with 15 other musicians. I always love the thrill of playing songs you’ve never heard before — all by ear. And then they force you to take a solo anyway<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my earliest posts on this blog was about my regular Friday Night Jam group, and then I recently posted about another monthly jam I discovered here in Chicago. However, now that I’ve got my folding banjo that I can stuff into my backpack, I’ve discovered that the real fun is to hunt for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}