NMIT

Out in the rain and the cold. 9:00 AM start! I mean - REALLY - we're BLUESMEN! :))

Thought I was running late - but made it exactly on time.

Nice studio - students producing and engineering. Byron had a ball tweaking the kit set up. he did a lot of the work. Ty (spelling) was great - the course supervisor. Did us proud.

We set the amp up in the main room to get some live presence... my request.

After a couple of hours setting up the drums - and five minutes setting up the amp, Byron and I jammed out on Pony Blues. It was okay... a cool warm up.

We took a break and a young woman sat at the keyboards and started playing some killer blues piano. I asked her if she wanted to sit in and do a track.

We did a C blues I'm calling Sassy - which I overdubbed some guitar on - and a G blues I'm thinking of calling Any Time's Cool.

It was SO MUCH FUN! I played bass on the original takes. And then dubbed guitar onto Sassy. The rust is slowly working it's way out of my fingers! Too long away from the guitars!

Sarah was great! A really talented pianist. Fun to work with. I hope we can get together again sometime soon. mebbe try some B3 type things on the keyboard at Byron's.

The takes are a little rough.Mainly due to my stumbling to refind jazz voicings and phrasings - but there's a basis for a couple of tracks there... and a nice direction to complement the Jump and Chicago Style stuff.