Blue Mother Tupelo: News

Hey yall ~ we're kickin' off 2008 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, late in '07, 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 ~

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

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!

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

Ricky & Micol Davis, Tom Kimmel & Michael Kelsh will be performing in the round at Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. This year's festival features songwriters and artists from a variety of musical genres - everything from Grammy-Nominated Rock Artists to Critically-Acclaimed Singer-Songwriters ... 5 nights of stellar entertainment, 70 shows, 250+ top songwriters - the only songwriters' festival of its kind.

JUST ANNOUNCED: BLUE MOTHER TUPELO will be performing in Austin, Texas at the Austin City Limits Festival '07! We're very honored to be a part of such a rich music tradition that the Austin City Limits Fest has & are looking so forward to heading back to beautiful Austin, Texas!!

Micol shakes some tambourines on Mindy Smith's CD, "Long Island Shores". Pick up your copy of Mindy's new CD today!

Ricky engineered an instructional CD, a companion to the instructional book, "Starting Bluegrass Banjo" by Robin Roller - 2007 Oak Publications.

We're honored to have our brand new song, "Lazy Days" included on a compilation CD for the movie industry in Hollywood, California. Y'all who've been to some recent shows might have heard, "Lazy Days". This recording will also be included on our new CD to be released in '07.

We're honored that Blue Mother Tupelo has been nominated in the Best Future Band/Duo category and that our recording of "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" from the movie Daltry Calhoun has been nominated as Favorite Song From A Movie in WIVK's Americana Highway 2006 HEMI Awards! Please vote for BMT either through an email to the program's host, Jack Ryan, via jack@americanahighway.com or through the show's website at www.americanahighway.blogspot.com/

Thanks very much!

Hey y'all, we're excited to be scoring the music for a new independent film to be released in 2007. We'll also be featured performing live in the movie. We will let you know more as the project progresses.

We are so deeply saddened by the passing of a close friend and one of our true music heroes. Jessie Mae Hemphill passed away Saturday evening around 8pm. Jessie Mae was such a sweetheart of a lady and a firecracker all in one. She had a real zest for life and a deep love and faith in Jesus Christ. God blessed Jessie Mae with a talent for creating her special music. And she touched us deep down to our very souls with her music and her presence. We're so very grateful to her for allowing us to record her song, "What A Shame (Shame On You)" on our CD, Delta Low Mountain High. And we're so grateful that God allowed us to meet and befriend Ms. Jessie Mae. She will always and forever be in our hearts to inspire us by and by. We're going to be missing her dearly. Y'all, please pray for her to have a safe journey home to Jesus. We can't even truly express the sadness that we feel tonight ...

Hey y'all, we've been tearin' up the hot southern asphalt this spring & summer, spreading the southern soul boogie to the people. We've done a string of shows with the wonderfully talented, Michelle Malone. We've also been sharing the stage with the great, Molly Thomas and another fabulous artist, Cary Hudson. Y'all should check them all out & tell them that BMT sent you'ns!

The Missouri Blues & Barbecue Festival was a treat again this year. There was a steady spring rain but it didn't stop the festival. Everyone had a blast eatin' the good barbecue, drinkin' ice-cold beer, playin' & dancin' to the blues!

Micol and I had a blast on July 4th at the Patriot Festival in Pigeon Forge. It was mighty cool seeing all the people throughout Patriot Park. There were around 15,000 folks there during our set. And it was extra-nice to be having the get-together for our nation's 230th birthday & for the patriotic Americans who have helped keep our country free. It was mighty cool and we were honored to be a part of it!

Between the tours, we've been laying down the tracks for our upcoming CD as well as singing & playing on sessions for other folks too.

Micol and I shonuff hope y'all are having some hot fun in the great, sunny summertime! It's been a beautiful one everywhere we've been ... it's our favorite time of the year!!!!

We hope to see ya down the road ...

peace & love,
Ricky

BLUE MOTHER TUPELO ON SOUNDTRACK & MOVIE DVD of DALTRY CALHOUN!!
Both are available now!!
SEE Blue Mother Tupelo's VIDEO for "PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER", which is INCLUDED on the "DALTRY CALHOUN" DVD as an EXTRA FEATURE!! This ballad version of "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" is heard during the final scene of the movie.
HEAR BMT on the movie's awesome soundtrack which includes 2 versions of "Put Your Head On My Shoulder", one of which is included in the motion picture & the other as a 'hidden track'.
DALTRY CALHOUN (PG13) stars JOHNNY KNOXVILLE, JULIETTE LEWIS, & ELIZABETH BANKS and was Executive Produced by QUENTIN TARANTINO.
Check out the 'BUY' page on this website (above) to easily order your own copy of the DALTRY CALHOUN DVD and SOUNDTRACK.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to our neighbors here in Sumner County, Tennessee who lost loved ones and/or property during Friday's tornadoes on April 7. We're very thankful that we & our property was spared in Friday's tornado but we're heartbroken about our neighbors. It's been tough for us to sleep at night. Our neighbor said she's having the same problem sleeping. We saw the tornado that went through Goodlettsville, then into Hendersonville from our back yard & could hear trees and houses being ripped out of the earth. We sat in the crawl space under our house for hours while having the radio on and hearing horrible stories from people who were witnessing tragic things as they were happening.

This tornado was within 1 mile of our house. It did a semi-circle a "C" type of path within just about 1 mile of three sides of our house. There's no rhyme or reason why a certain pathway's made during a tornado. We feel fortunate but also very hurt for others.

We performed at The 5 Spot in Nashville on that Friday night but the adrenaline & nervousness from all afternoon had us totally drained. As a result, we unfortunately didn't put on nearly as good a show as we would've liked to but the sweet, kind folks in the audience generously understood. The wonderful couple who own The 5 Spot, "Bones" & Diane Carrier, lost their home on Friday. Diane was taking refuge in an interior closet when the tornado hit and totally devastated their home. We're sure they can use all the help that they can get and if you're interested in making a donation to them, please contact the venue at ph: 615.650.9333 or dianecarrier@comcast.net .

Please make a donation or volunteer in relief efforts. To find out how, visit: www.nashvilleredcross.org or call 1-800-HELP-NOW.

To donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank, please visit www.secondharvestnashville.org and click the "I
want to donate now" link.

Nashville Safe Haven seeks donations of clothing, new underwear, bottled water, baby formula and the basic necessities that families need - even the most basic of items are lost due to the tornadoes. Monetary donations are welcome as well:
http://www.safehaven.org/donations
ph: 615.256.8195

Thank you & God bless,
Ricky & Micol