My only experiences, years ago, with blues sessions have not been good. It seems the guys hosting one here in town, back then, were just into a different form of blues than I was. The house band wanted play along but they played only electric gear and loudly. My acoustic, with a mic in front of it, didn't carry well enough to to allow them to hear what I was doing. The band would drowned me out and the song and melody would morph into what ever direction the band thought it should go. It was a nightmare. I'd be up there, on stage, in front of everyone in attendance, with a band full of loud musicians without a clue as to where to go musically. Don't get me wrong, they were good musicians but because of our difference in gear and musical styles, we clashed. You live and learn.

I have a better handle on my amplification now but would still hesitate joining in with an unknown factor like that again. My stuff is not mainstream. It tends to be of the more obscure variety with twists that aren't usual and therefore not so easy, I'm told, to jump into. I've never thought of my stuff as being that complex.

Anyway, I've never been back to any off the sessions around here because of the differences in form that they play in those jams. They lean toward that Chicago style electric stuff. I'm from Chicago, I love it but it clashes some with what I've been getting involved with of late.

Hey maybe I'll put together one of them Chicago style bands and play real loud. I'll get a drummer and an electric bass player to give the people a beat to dance to and maybe a screamin' lead guitar. Then we could play all them smoke filled bars and dives and rock they're socks off and...

Hey, can ya make $ doing stuff like that?