The jam session started around 1982, and is run by John and Bill Holcomb. Held in a one-room school building built in 1927 that John and Bill attended as young students, the weekly gathering features country songs, gospel songs, old popular songs, and fiddle tunes. Most musicians play acoustic instruments, but electric guitars and pianos are not uncommon.
Several musicians bring their own amplifiers.
Sometimes only five or six musicians come to the jam session, but often as many a twenty are there. John states proudly that some famous musicians have attended the jam, including members of the bands of Brooks and Dunn, Emmy Lou Harris, and Bill Monroe. Photographs are from July 27, 2000. John has many stories about the building, which has not been used as a school since 1952. For example, once the school bell was stolen and then mysteriously retrieved many years later.