A few years ago I played a gig that was really non glamorous. This also might be the strangest gig I’ve ever played, and it’s provided countless funny stories and inside jokes among those of us involved. Here’s what happened…

A friend and fellow musician in college called me one day and said “Hey, a friend of mine is playing a show of covers and a few originals at this charity event Saturday. Would you like to join us and play cajon?” I knew this gig wouldn’t pay (it was for charity), and I knew we’d be playing with someone I’d never met. But the event was happening in a nearby town I could get to within 20 minutes of where I was living at the time. So I said “sure,” not knowing at all what I was signing up for.

You know when you look up an address for somebody’s house and you have to keep zooming in and zooming in on Google Maps to see what the place actually is...and then sometimes you’re still lost...