Members of the Central New York Guitar League appreciate the work of Tim and Myles Thompson.

Add a very cool father-and-son team to the list of acoustic string players who can absolutely make your jaw drop.

Tim and Myles Thompson helped the Central New York Guitar League celebrate its eighth anniversary to open April at the Clarion just west of Syracuse.

Dad Tim and son Myles took the drive north from Nashville. The cold and snow blew them away. Even though Tim comes from Minnesota, his days in Music City have thinned his blood some. He didn’t hesitate to comment. In fact, Tim and Myles had a pretty fine and funny on-stage relationship.

Son: I’ve been on the road with him for six years, since I was 13. He said he wanted to show me what it was like to be a real musician. The first night we slept in the car.

Dad: He played the violin from the age of 5 to 7, the Kawasaki method. Then he got an XBox. I turned the violin back in (to the rental place) and he didn’t notice for two years.

Yeah, the Guitar League membership, out hundreds strong for this special show set up for their first-Monday-of-the-month meeting, appreciated the rapport.

Yet is was Tim’s work on the guitar and Myles work on the “adult violin” — almost a viola, Myles said — that really made the Central New York guitar players of all talent levels smile the most.

To hear Tim’s work on the classic Weather Report jazz work “Birdland” was wondrous.

They played seamlessly together on the original instrumental “Catastrophe.” “Going Down,” written by Tim for Clay Davidson but not on record until the Thompson’s own version, was hot. Django Reinhardt’s ballad “Tears” was gorgeous.

Good news: The Thompsons will have to brave the snow one more day at least. They play with the Nashville-based band Transatlantic tonight at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, joined by Central New York native and Nashville standout David Northrup on drums. They’ve put out an album, “Freedom Dance.” Northrup describes the blend of acoustic and electric work as “Tommy Emmanuel meets Jean-Luc Ponty meets Jeff Beck.” Monster.

The good Guitar League folks included me with a couple other people honored with a very cool trophy. My very smoking little guitar reads “Music Hero Award” for the ink and Internet space I’ve give the league over the years. Truth is, writing about well-intentioned people sharing their love and wisdom for music and their instrument has been my pleasure, every single time. So, thank you, thank you, thank you.

A very cool award. I’m appreciative.