Yeah, I'm Ricky Davis.

I'm, half of Blue Mother Tupelo, along with my wife here.

And I play guitar and, dobro and electric guitar.

Acoustic guitar.

And then, on our recordings, I played several different instruments and, write songs, and and we write songs together to, I'm Micol and I sing and play the piano and tambourines and all kinds of percussion stuff that, is fun to play.

Whatever's good to play.

Shake it.

Yeah.

Well, I just basically, I think our music is just so music because it's where it comes from, comes from ourselves.

Now, I mean, somebody would probably say soul music that don't sound like Blue Mother Tupelo, but that's where it comes from, from us.

So that's that's basically how I describe it.

My whole life, I don't remember a time ever not being interested as an infant.

Yeah, Yeah, my dad.

My dad, played guitar, plays guitar, has been a songwriter through the years.

Him and, my uncles and cousins had a band when I was growing up.

And, they play a lot of honky tonks, all around East Tennessee where I'm from.

And, self-taught, pretty much.

You know, dad taught me a few chords and stuff, but, you know, watching them play music, being around them and putting on records and playing along with records and cassette tapes and stuff like that.

When I was growing up and, then I eventually started playing music with them and honky tonks, and when I was, 13, 14 years old, you know, and so, I was just in a music kind of music family, but I was always I've always been interested in music, always been interested in guitar from from the get go.

You know, I don't remember time not being interested in playing the drums.

And, yeah, I've grown as a little kid.

And so, you know, several different instruments I picked up through the years.

Yeah.

So pianos, just my dad was a preacher, and, I just was always, you know.

Well, I grew up in the church, and, But they said as a little growing, I remember doing this, I was there just hanging out.

He was in the in the church one time.

He was, like, studying or whatever.

He says.

He heard me picking out, like, I think I was four years old on the piano, picking out one of the songs.

So anyway, the piano just that didn't have a piano in my home, but I had it at church.

And so that's that's how I gravitated to the piano, I guess.

you know, like the Delta blues and the Allman Brothers Band and, Marshall Tucker Band and, you know, country music, Merle Haggard and, you know, all that kind of stuff.

I grew up on, a lot of country music in my family, I started writing music when I was a kid.

I mean, write songs.

I don't know.

I just started it back then.

Time.

Just just.

Yeah.

About anything.

Just about anything.

Just singing, you know, because singing is just good for you, you know?

Just feels good to sing.

And it felt so good to sing.

And so you could just write and sing about anything and make up a song about anything.

And 1997 was our first album was called My Side of the road, so we released that as a four piece electric band primarily at that time.

And that album is, out of print.

It's been out of print for a while.

117 00:03:57,904 --> 00:03:59,697 Yeah, 1997.

So we've yeah, we've been making music together a long time.

I think playing in cover bands, on some levels is more lucrative.

Going out and doing your own songs is, the hard road to go.

But if you're, if you wrote songs and you feel good about your songs and, they make you feel a certain emotion and you like, that's kind of how we did.

Like, we've really written some songs and it just made us feel a certain way and like, well, let's go take it out, sing in front of people and see what happens, see if anybody likes what we're doing or if it's just something we like.

Only.

So, that's how we did it, you know, and our music, we have our own website which we keep up and our music is on there.

Most all of our most all of our music can be found on our website.

For, you know, the Tupelo.

Yes.

Blues.

I'm on the.

Many of the streaming platforms have our music now.

That's kind of the modern way to go about listening to music.

Some of our songs and albums are scattered on some of those platforms, so you might have to search for some of them, Well, I just got to go back to the.

So again, if it's got if it's got.

So I love it.

I don't care what genre of music it is.

I mean, I grew up, a couple of my biggest heroes, when I first started out, like, really studying the guitar, when I was like, seven years old was Jimi Hendrix.

And in Muddy Waters and Merle Haggard and, you know, I mean, people from all walks of life, you know, the Allman Brothers Band and I mean always all this music from different genres.

But to me, it just touched my soul.

So to me, that's the beautiful thing about music is as long as it's got so heart and soul, it's it's beautiful.

It's a beautiful thing.

I think.

I love being with people and spending time these moments in time with other folks that are wanting to come and sort of connect music, like with the music.

And so to be able to, share what I feel like is one of my life paths is music for sure.

And to be able to do it really, you know, to do it and lovingly do that, it's like it's it's like love really.

It's like pouring out some love and sharing, and connect with other hearts and souls.