Well, my son tried out his songs for a groups of friends last night, and he did really well. I knew he was good at horns, but he must have been practicing on the guitar a lot over the winter. He kicked it off with two Marley songs, "Is This Love" and "No Woman No Cry", followed by Melissa by the Allman Brothers. Then he took out his trumpet and played and sang a really nice version of Fly Me To The Moon. Next was the dixieland thing he worked up on the sax, and ended it back on the guitar with the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah. We never had a TV, and I was always playing blues and jazz and reggae in the house, so I guess it rubbed off on him.
He got a lot of positive feedback, and one thing they all commented on was that he didn't have an ipad or anything with him to read the lyrics from, and knew everything by heart. I told him long ago that it really takes away from the rhythm and the connection with the audience if you use that as a crutch, and they were glad to see him let go and play.
So, he's the last one to leave the nest, so my job is done.