It seemed fitting to catch a show-stopping error during a performance of "Jesus Was a Capricorn."

Musical artist Darrell Scott was interpreting Kris Kristofferson's breakdown of scapegoating and hypocrisy. He was singing it hard and using his electric guitar's fretboard to visit Stanley Clarke-style bass licks, Jerry Reed-style fingerpicking freakishness and other moods along the way. In the middle of his first guitar solo, he stepped on his guitar cord, pulling it out of the twin-cutaway electric.

"Oh, God!" he exclaimed. Some in the crowd chuckled. He quickly plugged back in and reignited his mind-baking fretboard shenanigans to raucous applause Wednesday night at Jefferson Center's recital hall.

Otherwise, Scott was basically perfect in the full house of 150. Playing guitars and piano to accompany himself on songs from his latest record, "Modern Hymns" -- and from his own critically lauded catalog -- Scott showed genius-level musical skills matched with deep soul.

He made new local trivia with his version of Paul Simon's "American Tune." Last Friday, Allen Toussaint, performing in Jefferson Center's Shaftman Hall, had covered it.

But some of Scott's own songs received the night's biggest reception. He took requests -- the hilarious "Spelling Bee" and the frightening dreamscape "Double-Headed Eagle." Many sang along with "It's a Great Day to Be Alive," and in the end, Scott called out: "Sing it, Corey."

That was Corey Hunley, the Roanoke Valley singer/songwriter/guitarist who had opened the show. Hunley sang songs of life, love and family based on people he knew -- some of whom were in the audience.

From the bad-boy verses of "Victoria's Secret" to the song of loss, "Heavy Heart," Hunley showed that while he's not reinventing the wheel with his lyrics, he's rolling his own pretty well. (Full disclosure: Hunley was my first guitar teacher in Roanoke.)

Hunley accompanied himself on guitar with percussive style and good taste in chords. After his set, he told the audience to wait for Scott, who would show "how it's done."

And Scott did. But Hunley could be proud, too.