Heed the spirit of the place.
When you play a place, you take on an obligation to speak for it and tell its story. When you go to a place, you participate in its intelligence and creativity. Observe how things happen there and you’ll start to hear the story it has to tell, a refrain repeated through the experience of every living being that dwells there or passes through it. Watch how the light shines, how the water flows, how the wind blows. Study the shape of the place. Listen to its sounds until you can hear its particular music. Study its past and what sorts of things happened there before you — in the deep time of geology, in historical records, and in living memory. Pay attention to the things you feel there, and the way the place speaks to you when you go there. Then bring all that to the table, and play that place as honestly as you can.