North Carolina pickers

[silvertop]

Looking for good jam sessions and/or picking pals. I'm a pretty good flatpicker in the Watson, Blake, Crary and maybe TRice vein. Pretty proficient on all the flatpicking standards and am open to originals and new stuff. I've played bluegrass forever but I've been out of a band situation for a few years. Picked in informal sessions with Earl Scruggs (numerous times, I played in an amateur band w/ his late brother Horace) John Hartford, Marty Stuart, Mike Compton, D. Grier and great local talent like Darren Auldridge formerly of Charlie Waller's band and now doing well with his wife in the Darren & Brooke Auldridge group.
Right now I play Telecaster (52 reissue) and an Ernie Ball Albert Lee Model (love AL) with some old buddies on occassion, but the acoustic stuff is what I like and do best. If anyone in a 50 mile radius of Shelby is looking for an additional picker or knows of any good situations, let me know. I would prefer like-minded and upper intermediate or advanced players. I'm 55 years old, but I don't mind if you happen to younger... I guarantee I won't fall out. FYI...I would have posted this to the Flatpick-L newsgroup but they threw me off for a too long review of Merlefest a few years ago and although the moderators say I'm OK I still cannot post and only read in digest form. And while I'm at it....Galax anyone??? Oh yeah...my acoustics are a great 14 year old Collings rosewood D and a Huss and Dalton DS.

[marvin gardens]

Hey Silvertop, and welcome,

There's some pretty good pickin' on Saturday nights up in Asheville at Shindig on the Green. If you haven't been, there's a sign-up for the stage, and there's alway's a jam going on around. There's also a jam on Monday nights at Blue Ridge Music in Biltmore. Bobby Anderson of Bobby and Blue Ridge Tradition holds court as emcee. Jack of the Wood on Downtown has old time jams on Wednesday nights, and bluegrass jams on Thursday. That's just a small few hope that help's.

Jim

[ricks]

Hey Silvertop, welcome to the forum. ( I think a lot of us could have used that name BTW)

You need to get hold of Pistolero. He's over by charlotte, and if I remember Shelby is not too far from there ? GREAT flatpicker and former Winfield Winner etc. He knows all the pickers, near and far. Hopefully he'll see this and chime in.

When you mentioned Galax, are you headed up for the Fiddlers Festival next month? If so, tell Jimmy Edmonds HI for me. I was gonna try to make it but just cant do a trip at this time.

[woody b]

Hello Silvertop. I don't know many advanced pickers around here, but I'm sure there's some. There's a place in Blacksburg SC called the Country Jam
http://www.countryjam.org/ Their website isn't much help. I believe they have some kind of open mic on Friday nights and have bands on select Saturdays. I've only been there a couple times but I know a few people who go alot. I've got friends and relatives I pick with occasionally but I'm usually the most advanced player there. There's a reason I'm not a professional guitarist;). You're welcome to pick with me sometime, or visit my shop. I'm in Grover NC. My daytime job is at Carter Chevrolet in Shelby. Feel free to send me a private message here, contact me through my web site or drop by the service department at Carters.

[silvertop]

Thanks to all for the replies. The Thursday night BG jam in Asheville may be a possibility and I do know who Allen Shadd is...even got his CD. And I know where Grover is...I work just outside of town at CVG/Mayflower!

[Pistolero]

So that's who bought the other cd!:D Slivertop, I have to say that I don't really know of many jams in the area, and haven't been to the ones I've heard of. I've heard of one in Lake Wylie at a church once a month, and then Bill's music store in Columbia (a little farther away though) on Friday nights. I only know a handful of pickers in the area.

[deltoid]

Don't overlook The Cook Shack in Union Grove.

http://uniongrovemusic.site.voila.fr/page1.html

There might be a couple of YT videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GltRSbOJBuE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am2MmUMEZxQ

I'm at work, so the above sites are blocked to me.

So, if I'm at work, what am I doing on the AGF? ;)

[Squeezebox]

Another vote for the Cook Shack here!!! I was just there last night as a matter of fact; saw Marjorie Thompson with Greg Franklin on bass....2nd time I have seen them there and they were again GREAT!!

I saw Roy Book Binder there this past October...another amazing show

I think they have an open jam pickin' session every Saturday morning by the way