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September 2, 2012 will be our next steel guitar jam session at the Converse American Legion on 326 Legion Dr. West in Converse, Texas. This will be our last jam session of 2012 since we have several hunters that will be pursuing the hunt, and football fans taking in their games on the weekends, and several holidays we all enjoy. Plus some of us wait to travel in the fall of the year.
Our jam session will start at 2pm and ends about 5pm. Players are encouraged to be set up and tuned ready to play at 2pm. All levels of players are encouraged to bring your steel and play. Please have 2 songs prepared to play. A meal will be offered by the American Legion for a 5.00 donation/plate. The canteen will be opened and serving your favorite beverage, and also have free popcorn.
We will have our "4 Sale or Trade" table set up for anything pertaining to our music such as amps, guitars, equipment, cds etc.Please nothing that eats, grows, smells, or illegal.
We will be back with our jam sessions the first Sunday after the Super Bowl and then have our jam sessions the first Sunday of each month.
Our backup band is confirmed as Ken Piper vocals, fiddle, and guitar, Brian Folks on drums, Ben Price on bass, Nancy Kotzur on fiddle, and Jim Blakey on lead guitar and Dean Schilling on trumpet. Come out and enjoy the fun....jr

Joe,

Good food, friends, and great music!

Ben

I'll be in St Louis. Playing in the Hawaiian room this year. Going to Nashville the Sunday following the Steel Guitar convention. You guys have fun. See you next year.

Glad you'll be with us Ben. And Roger, have fun and be careful...jr

TTT...jr

the chances are increasingly good that I will be able to attend the "last dance" of the year. Roger have a good time St. Louis and a better time in Nashville. thanks for joining us this past year. Heck, thanks to everyone for joining, it has been so much fun!

Hey Mark,
You're right, we've had a great year....better than last year which was a great year and hopefully we'll have a better year in 2013. You have contributed greatly along with all the players and the band and audiences. Hope to see you Sunday....jr

Since there will be no Oct meeting I'll be the feature player in Katie the 1st Sunday of Oct.

Terry Smith, the manager of the American Legion in Converse e-mailed me to let me know of the big Labor Day celebration. The e-mail is below. Due to the people expected to attend the celebration and parking area I would urge all to show up about 11:30am or 12 noon. Please remember our jam session starts at 2pm and we need to start on time....Joe Rouse...210-254-5299

--- On Mon, 8/27/12, terry smith <terrysmith00735> wrote:


From: terry smith <terrysmith00735>
Subject: Re:
To: "joe rouse" <jrouse4>
Date: Monday, August 27, 2012, 3:35 PM

Joe

Thanks for the e mail just a heads up at the Legion on this same day will be our annual Labor day celebration where we will be providing free hamburgers and hot dogs and folks will bring in side dishes and deserts so if any of your folks will want to do the same this would be great because it's free to everyone. I wont be here personally I have been called to Tenn. for an issue that has to be addressed. So I hope yall have a good jam session because a bunch of our folks will be here to listen to the music, free food brings them out of the wood work.

Terry

Looking forward to the season finale. Will be bring all 6 strings. Will really miss hearing Roger play, but I'm sure he will play some beautiful Hawaiian music in St. Louis. Will be bring a Nashville 400 to sell.

I think Roger will do great anywhere he goes.Mike Kowalik is looking for a Nv 400...glad you're going to be at the jam session Reggie...jr

Please keep in mind we will have a lot of people celebrating Labor Day at the Converse American Legion and we need to be there early to get a good parking place to unload and to reload after 5pm. I plan to be there at 11:30am....free hotdogs and hamburgers and also bring a covered dish if you feel you want to contribute to the dinner, lunch or comida....jr

Free Hot Dogs !! I just canceled my gig Ha!
You guys have fun like you always do and I will see you next time.

too much fun to miss. count me in! I will try to be there noonish......

Great Mark, Dave "COMMODORE"Goodman said he would be there about noon...we'll have a good time and lots of fun..Ken Metcalf said he had 2 jobs to play so he wouldn't be at our celebration ...jr

Last call for the jam session. We're in for free food, free music, and lot's of fun today starting about noon. Jam session will start at 2pm. Come out and enjoy the fun....jr

Hey Joe ,if Denny Mathis shows up make him play before ya feed him.

That I'll do Ransom...I'll serve him a plate with your name as the cook....jr

Loadin' up the Harley... see you guys soon! Bringin' an appetite, too.

Dern, that was fun... the new Frypan was a success, I ate my weight in good food... hard to believe it won't happen again until February. Thanks to Joe and the SA bunch!

We had a great turn out and the food was good and all the pickers did a great job. Thanks a bunch Joe for a job well done this year.I look forward to next year.

We did have a great jam session. I know people are tired of me saying it was a great jam session but it really was great. We've had 8 really great jam sessions this year and by far surpassing the previous year. Great players attended and our backup band was outstanding even though they only play together once a month.
Dave Goodman, Bill McCumber, the great Billy Phelps, Mark Mosely, Bill Menges, Reggie Amos, and Stephen Cowell were our steel players and Billy Gilbert and Will Deer were our dobro players. Kenny Piper headed up the band with vocals and guitar, and fiddle. Mark Mosely on guitar and back up vocals, Nancy Kohtzur fiddle, Brian Folks drums, Ben Price / Jerry Boatright bass, and our lead guitar player was Jim Blakey. Billy Phelps and his wife Patty each sang for us and once again a 10 on the WOW scale...
Most of the 8 jam sessions I passed the donation can to pay for the rent($50) of the hall we use to the William Randolph American Legion in Converse, Texas. Due to our players and audience generosity we had an excess of $208.00. I talked with my committee(Brian Folks & Kenny Piper) and we decided to make a donation to the American Legion for the Wounded Warriors with the $208.00. $208.00 seemed an odd number so we passed the donation can again hoping to bring it up to $300.00 and with the donation we ended up with $429.00
We have the best hearted people in our jam session family. We made the presentation to the American Legion who thanked each and everyone of us many times. Before our presentation was over we had one of the Legion members take the gift to a full $500.00.
This was our last jam session of 2012 account of dove hunting, deer hunting, holidays, and cooler weather to do some traveling. Thank you to all the players that made the music, the supporters who encouraged the players. Thank you goes to Brian and Carol Folks for driving from Corpus Christi to San Antonio each month so Brian could play drums for us and Carol operated the camera so we could have dvds of each meeting. Thanks to Kenny Piper and his wife Jorja for all of the hard work of setting up their PA system and taking it down each and every jam session, Jorjas support of both the jam sessions and Kenny. And Thank You to my wife for all the help she is...We are all Blessed and we will resume the jam sessions the first Sunday after Super Bowl weekend...jr

Ben Price found a pair of Sony earphones at the American Legion Hall Sunday after most of the players had left. Please contact Ben at James_Ben_Price@hotmail.com...jr

Yep... mine aren't here. I've emailed Ben... thanks guys!

Stephen Cowell wrote:Yep... mine aren't here. I've emailed Ben... thanks guys!

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