Checker's Acoustic Showcase 1/10/18-The Blue Jinx

Songs of note:

Stop Draggin My Heart Around (our version-Julie Gordon sings lead)
Lynch Party
Fox On The Run
Jet Airliner
Every Mother's Son (Attempted)
You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover

I played Mike Fredericks's guitar.

Solo acoustic set

Little Wing
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Breakdown
Stop Draggin My Heart Around
Heard It In A Love Song
Going Up The Country

Playing Percussion
with Greg Mein on Guitar and vocals
Brenda Hoskins-Mein-Keyboards, Flute and Vocals

With Steve Black Wolf and Donna Jo

Turn The Page
Knockin On Heaven's Door
Last Kiss
Stand By Me
This Magic Moment
Eve Of Destruction
Sweet Home Chicago

Steve Black Wolf-lead vocal and guitar
Donna Jo-Backing Vocals, tambourine
Julie Gordon played the drums and then sang on Sweet Home Chicago and played guitar.
Mike Fredericks played banjo
Dave Bonham played some guitar  But took it easy most of the night
Tim Canfield-showed up later but didn't play bass.
Sofie Chesney-sang with Steve Black Wolf on a few songs


It's getting to the point that the Ibanez guitar that I have brought about 9 months ago is becoming a fucking jinx.  It broke strings during my Cabin Jam, my first Waubeek jam and then at the Artisan Sanctuary but tonight, the damn washers fell off and I couldn't plug the guitar in anywhere, so I used Mike Frederick's Gretsch electric guitar.  I borrowed Julie to attempt the first version of Stop Draggin My Heart Around and stole it from Greg and Brenda, who would do their own version later on.

Another musician's crowd tonight.  Tim Canfield was rumored to play bass but showed up for support. Greg and Brenda helped out and I helped them playing percussion on their set.   Julie was still trying to rest her voice so I only used her for Stop Draggin My Heart Around.  I was going over that song this afternoon and just about have it down in rough form.  We never played it before.

It seems that January is the worst month to sing anything, it's too dry and most people are either stuck with the flu, or the cold or both.  I have been dealing with a scratchy throat to the point I was choking on the Mein's version of Draggin My Heart Around.  They're such cool people to jam with.

I tried to reassure Julie that I was in a good mood but even she sensed I was a bit disgusted from the issues of the Ibanez and the plug on inside the hollow body of the guitar.   Then I broke the damn acoustic peg holding the string in trying to get to the damn input plug.  So Mike offered his Gretsch electric and it played fine, except I couldn't get it tuned right to do Every Mother's Son so I closed things with Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover.   The Blue Jinx was still used for Steve's set and Julie played along on the bongos, a bit self conscious on her playing but from what I heard, she did a good job keeping the beat.

Upon replacing the broken acoustic peg,  I broke the damn string and threw the damn guitar across the room, chipping part of the neck.  However some good ole Electric Tape and some TLC I managed to get the guitar back into order.  It was given a new nickname.  I call it The Blue Brat.