First of all, EJay plays just fine... Really... Don't buy into that "How the heck does this thing work?" crap... He's an accomplished player...

As fir playin' with other folks who are either more or less accomplished I have to admit to having beern a regular at the Archie Edwards Barbershop for about 8 years where I came in as a "less than" and left as a "more than"... But a few things that do help is what I call "slow band" where if yer leading a song you walk everyone thru it veeeerrrrrrryyyyyyy slow and shout our yer chord changes... This gives everyone an opportunity to get the basic song down... This is not an oppotunity to use the "more than" tricks... Just keep it simple... The once you get it going you can throw yer tricks in 'cause it's allready going and the tricks will just enhance the overall sound...

Now sometimes we had folks at the barbershop who knew their 1st posotion chords and thought that meant that they we ready for the Kennedy Center and they would play poorly and loud... That's what the "facilitator" is for... Sometimes folks need to be asked to play just a little more quietly... Hey, it can be done sensitively... It really can... Words like "blend" can be used to get folks to play within the group...

BTW, the Archie Edwards folks still hold their weeky jams and have workshops and all that... Check 'um out a acousticblues.com...

B~