Here is some news: DADDY is playing at Callaghan’s Irish Social Club in Mobile, Alabama on Sunday, October 25. There won’t be many tickets available; it’s a small room. But it will be a rock n roll band: the four piece version of DADDY. Not quite BABY DADDY, not quite STEPDADDY, just 4/5ths of DADDY the band. If you have not seen us play, please try and get there. We rock, if I do say so myself. For fans of rock n roll music. Check my tour dates page for updated shows.
My new album, “Wings” is musically complete. We are now working on the artwork and making plans for early 2010 release. I am really excited about this album, which contains “Three Angels”, “Wings” (written with Jimmy Buffett), and 8 other brand new songs that I can’t wait for you all to hear.
The East Coast tour with Kim Richey was quite a trip. The music at the shows was great. Singing with Kim is a wonderful thing. After 25 years of trouble-free trips to play in New York, I had my NYC Waterloo: immediately after entering Manhattan via the Holland Tunnel, I got two traffic tickets. Don’t take a left on 6th Avenue coming out of the Holland Tunnel. After that, we parked in the official parking spot of the venue. But the New York authorities took a different notion about our parking spot, and towed my mini van away. We rolled in to the hotel at 4 AM after a full fledged Gotham City misadventure. Pocketbook took a sound beating, too…ah well….
Highlights were our Jammin’ Jave show in the DC/NoVa area and our Johnny D’s Boston/Cambridge show. The other shows were real good, but those were just real highlights.
I’m playing two shows this Saturday, Oct 10: 11:30 AM at the Tennessee Legislative Plaza for the Southern Festival of Books (which is a great literary fest: this year’s lineup includes Roy Blount jr, Madison Smartt Bell, Tommy Womack, etc) and then later that night at Charles and Myrtle’s in Chattanooga.
Next weekend I’ll be in Indianapolis at Spencer’s Stadium Tavern. On the afternoon of the show—-Oct 17—-I’m doing a songwriting clinic. And then that night I have a reg’lar gig.
See you out there.
-Will