Sampling the local night life

A good friend and I went out last night in our small town of Dallas and tried to sample some of the local night life. What we found was quite interesting. We first checked out the papers and craigslist to see what was being advertised. After that we struck out in my old '51 chev pickup. First stop...a long-running local musician jam at Guthrie Park Community Center. There were over a dozen musicians sitting in the round playing songs together. A lot of the material was older - maybe like the soundtrack of 'O Brother Where Art Thou' with a few other various tunes. Some interesting moments included a woman playing a saw (no joke) and steel bucket bass player! After about an hour, and a donation, we headed out for a younger crowd. That took us to a local bar called Blondies. As soon as we drove up, we heard some pounding, current sounding music and, upon entry, we found our younger crowd. The room was smoky and packed with 20 somethings. Not much dancing going on, but, every pool table was taken by young guys. We wanted to check out some of the other local haunts, however, my old chev's 6 volt battery wasn't going to hack it, so, we headed home early (11pm). All in all there are certainly some things to do on Friday nights even in a small town!