Good point, Becky... Lotta folkies gettin' the raw deal here... Blues players, of course, gettin' the rawist of the raw 'cause other folkies look down at us... Sho nuff do... I been to too many open jams to know that if yer gonna play blues then the other folkies is gonna conspire up against ya'... Heck, I used to go to this jam in Round Hill, Va. 'cause the organizer asked me to come... I'd find an obscure little corner of the p0arkin' lot out back and take me a couple youngin's back there with me... Now I weren't tryin' to be disrespectfull ya' see but after about 15 minutes the bluegrassers would find us and turn what we was tryin' to do into "their" thing and next thing ya' know they had completely highjacked our little corner of the parking lot... This inspite of the fact ther were at least 2 other bluegrass jams goin on elsewhere...

That is a ture story... I went 3 times to this jam and same thing every time... The 4th time I got a call from the organizer I told him what had happened and he defended the bluegrassers??? So I told him that I woouldn't be comin' to no more of his jams, thank you...

But it's the same at most folk gatherings... Them bluegrassers just get it in their mind that that's what they are gonna do and they do it, and do it and do it and...

That includes the old timers, too, BTW...

B~