Last Sunday we had an amazing Hoot. What made it so powerful went beyond the classic, essentially manifested setting of a log cabin in a beautiful PA hollow. What made the jam special was the realization that after putting these jams together for over 10 years, I'm noticing a change in expectations---maybe a subconscious desire to dig deeper into the music, to play it with its intended passion and complexity (at least to the best of our abilities.) Of course, this may all be
