Blue Mother Tupelo: News

Hey yall,

During the the moments when we've not been traveling our country's highways 'n' byways performing live at festivals, nightclubs and house concerts for all y'all good folks who've joined us this year, we've been in our studio, havin' a blast & hard at work on our newest studio recording!
These new songs are comin' together in a mighty cool way & we're so excited for you to hear 'em ...
Look for our brand new CD comin' up soon this year.
It's been a long time comin, that's fo sho!

Yall check back often to find out when it'll be available for YOU.

In the meantime, a few months back, we put together a new live CD called
Love Live - 5 Songs From The Road, which includes some of our favorite live cuts from some of our favorite venues.
Be sure to pick one or two up from the BMT Store!

Sendin' out lots of love ~
Micol & Ricky
BMT

Micol sang harmonies, played organ, tambourine and hand-claps; Ricky sang harmonies, played drums, upright bass, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric slide guitar, steel guitar, cigar box guitar, field hollers, sledgehammer/anvil, and hand-claps on Little Johnny Kantreed's new upcoming CD release, "Bring Me A Little Water". Ricky Davis also Produced & Engineered six tracks on Little Johnny Kantreed's new CD to be released in 2008.

Blue Mother Tupelo makes their second appearance at the Americana Folk Festival.

In 2006 BMT performed at the AFF and is thrilled and honored to be in the company of all their fellow Americana artists at the AFF on Saturday, November 1, 2008. Come and take in the absolute best in Americana music and the beautiful fall foliage!

To order tickets and to learn more about the festival, visit their site at
www.americanafolkfest.com or at www.myspace.com/theamericanafolkfestival

BMT is extremely honored to share the stage with the legendary Leon Russell at The Shed in Maryville, Tennessee on Thursday, September 4. See BMT's calendar for ticket info.

Micol & Ricky record Keith Urban's, "Better Life" for a Wal-Mart commercial demo.

Micol sang lead vocals and harmonies on a new Susan Anders recording called "Missing You".

Micol records lead & harmony vocals for new Tide commercial demo

Ricky played lead slide electric guitar on Erika Chambers' new recording, "Footprints". And Micol sang harmonies & Ricky played dobro, on Erika's new recording called, "The War" both featured on Erika's new upcoming CD.

Micol & Ricky sang, Micol played piano, tambourines, Ricky played upright bass, drums, dobro, acoustic guitar and produced a commercial demo for JC Penney's in January 2008.

Micol sang the lead vocals on a new Susan Anders' recording called "Goodbye is the New Hello" in January 2008.

Love Live - 5 Songs From The Road has been exclusively available at BMT live performaces until NOW! You can order your very own copy from our web STORE ...
each copy is lovingly handmade by Micol and includes about 43 minutes of LIVE music recorded at some of Ricky & Micol's favorite shows. For more details, check out our STORE page right here in our website.
lovelovelove!

BMT records their song, "High In The Sky" for a Kia commercial demo.

BMT recorded & arranged the Johnny Mercer/Henry Mancini song, "Moon River" for a Honda Accord commercial demo.

BMT recorded two new original songs, "Always Lookin'" and "I Can't Wait" for a Hartford Insurance commercial demo.

This year, we're so honored to be having the opportunities to take our music to new places & to new audiences! For years we have toured the southeast and midwest and always love it! This year, we've performed at the Winter Park Folk Festival in Colorado and have had the chance to eyewitness the majestic Rocky Mountains. It's our first trip to Colorado and we've gotta go back, it is simply breathtaking! Later this year, we'll be performing at The Big State Festival in Texas - our debut performance in The Lone Star State at the Texas World Speedway with some other artists that we have utmost respect for. And we're also performing for the first time in New York City, which is also our first time going to NYC! We'll be heading to Mississippi and to our stompin' grounds in Tennessee again soon & often too - always love touring through the beautiful southland! It's so exciting and such a blessing that we're both so grateful to God to have these opportunities. We're thankful to each of you for your support of us and our music as well. We hope to see y'all soon & hope you'll come boogie with us!!!

peace & love always,
Ricky & Micol
BMT

BMT will be performing live for a private event at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City in September!

Blue Mother Tupelo is extremely honored to be joining other fine artists and music legends on stage at the Big State Festival in Bryan-College Park, Texas.

50-plus stars from Nashville as well as Texas, and beyond including:
Tim McGraw • Willie Nelson • Lynyrd Skynyrd • Lyle Lovett and his Large Band • Trace Adkins • Dierks Bentley • Gary Allan • Robert Earl Keen • Jack Ingram • Los Lonely Boys • Drive-By Truckers • The Wreckers • The Flatlanders • Billy Currington • Miranda Lambert • Kevin Fowler • Eli Young Band • Chris Cagle • Craig Morgan • Heartland • Reckless Kelly • Eric Church • Leon Russell • Charlie Louvin • Willis Alan Ramsey • Kelly Willis • The Geezinslaws • Ashley Ray • The Wrights • Matt Caldwell • Whiskey Brown • Mice & Rifles • Monte Warden • Rodney Hayden • Drew Kennedy • Sunny Sweeney • Blue Mother Tupelo • Granger Smith • Jerrod Niemann • Kevin Gordon • Colin Gilmore • The Gougers • Mark McKinney • The Ginn Sisters • The Paul Green School of Rock All Stars • Farmer Jason • Buck Howdy • The Bummkinn Band

To get all the info & to pick up your tickets today go to www.bigstatefestival.com/lineup.aspx

Blue Mother Tupelo joins other great Americana artists at the Jammin' At Hippie Jacks - an Americana Music & Arts Festival.
Performing live will be:
Blue Mother Tupelo
Malcolm Holcombe
Hector Qirko Band
The Jimmy Mundanes
Kirk Fleta
Webb Wilder
Geoff Achison
Delta Moon
and more tba ...
For more info: www.jamminathippiejacks.com

Blue Mother Tupelo has just been added to the fantastic roster of the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic. Performing live will be:

John Barnett
Olga Wilhelmine Mathus
Danny Lancaster
Jocco Rushing with Fried Chicken & Gasoline
Blue Mother Tupelo
Alvin Youngblood Hart
T-Model Ford
Bobby Rush
Blue Mountain
Taylor Grocery Band
John Wilkins
Dave Kimbrough
Burnside Exploration
Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
Jimbo Mathus W/Knockdown South
Duwayne Burnside W/MS Mafia
North Mississippi Allstars
Hill Country Jam W/Kenny Brown

To attend and for more info: www.nmshillcountrypicnic.com

The 2007 Austin City Limits Festival, which was solidly confirmed for Blue Mother Tupelo on November 16, 2006, was inadvertently cancelled for Blue Mother Tupelo by June 11, 2007 due to an oversight on the part of the agent representing the stage that Blue Mother Tupelo was scheduled to perform on.

After being informed that we had a definite slot on the festival, there was some type of error on the part of the folks booking this particular stage at the festival and BMT's slot was unintentionally given to another artist.

We, Ricky & Micol Davis a.k.a. Blue Mother Tupelo, want to sincerely apologize to every one of you who has been informed about our much anticipated performance on this festival. We are so embarrassed that we've told people, and the media, that we're going to be on the Austin City Limits Music Festival and now it's not happening. We have to let y'all know that we were CERTAINLY BOOKED AND PROMISED A SLOT ON THIS FESTIVAL and this is the ONLY reason why we ever let folks know about this.

Due to what the people who are booking this stage at the festival are calling an "oversight", our slot has been taken away. This is a hurtful blow to us, but we're dusting off our britches and boogie'n on. The people responsible are telling us that they're working toward another opportunity for us.

For all the folks who've said they're gonna make the trip to see us at the Austin City Limits Festival, we want to apologize that we've been placed in this predicament but we also want to immensely thank you for your support of us and our music.

And just hold on, we're gonna make some more music for ya - just wait and see!

peace, love & God's blessings always,
Ricky & Micol Davis
Blue Mother Tupelo

p.s. If you're interested, see Ricky's myspace blog (Austin City Limits Music Festival & This Crazy Business -embarrassed, heartbroken & looking to God for answers ...) and Micol's blog (Does It Mean Enough 4 Me 2 Stay) & to hear our new song, "Does It Mean Enough", go by our myspace site: www.myspace.com/bluemothertupelo