A musician is said to be a person who is skilled in music; especially someone who is a professional performer, orchestral conductor or composer. A person thought to be "musical" is one who is sensitive to, or again, skilled in music. Music itself is defined broadly as the art and science of combining vocal or instrumental tones in varying melodic, rhythmic and harmonic forms and especially in a manner that forms a structurally complete and emotionally expressive composition.
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Travis, Angel, Mary and I went to the "Old Pilot Hill General Store" in Philadelphia, TN this past Thursday. There's pickin' on the porch every Thursday evening throughout the summer months. The food is out of this world as is the hospitality. We all had a great time and we certainly plan to return.

Here's an essay I wrote some time ago having to do with Bluegrass "etiquette":

Did you ever enter into a conversation with someone who would speak right over you when you were responding to their prior remarks? If so, then you know how irritating that can be. Such a person is said to be disrespectful, or at the least, thought of as being rude or lacking fundamental rules of polite conversation.

This same condition applies equally as well to musicians in a jam...

Here are a few pictures Mary took of many of us jamming away in Elizabethton this past Monday night.


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These pickers have all become great friends, as have so many others. Mary and I really enjoy the wonderful friends and hospitality here in the South.

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Mary took these photos early in the evening before a lot of the pickers had arrived. There was a really good turnout and everyone had a great time pickin', singin' an' grinnin'!