I enjoy playing music. After quitting the nightclub and bar scene around 1982, the guitar was seldom picked up. When the mood to play “hit me” I would play along with albums and cassettes at that time. My aunt was instrumental at my resurgence when she and others started a campground along Cherry Run called Maple Grove. She asked to come around and with further encouragement from my wife, Laurie, I did just that.
Acoustic guitar work with the gospel band; IN TRANSITION
Playing along with Roy Rubin from New Castle
I have played many types of music and my style of playing varies dramatically depending on the fellow musicians I am engaged with at the time. I can’t explain this but the variances just happen. Since I started to play the guitar once again I have played many types of music: contemporary and traditional gospel and hymns; traditional country and bluegrass; polkas; square dance music; western swing…I occasionally may play some rock but, to be honest, I do not actively seek it. (Maybe a sign of maturing.) Prior to my quitting, I played country; top 40; oldies; hard rock; country rock and others.
I am happy to be able to set in and improvise (fake) my way through with many bands. I have made many friends since coming back to music.
The photos above are a few of the nine or ten bands I played along with over the 4th of July weekend. (That can be tiring.)
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