{"id":15768,"date":"2016-09-23T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T07:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2016-09-23T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:37:13","slug":"video-feature-interview-webb-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2016\/09\/video-feature-interview-webb-wilder\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO FEATURE &#038; INTERVIEW WEBB WILDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VIDEO FEATURE &amp; WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Artist:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0WEBB WILDER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3>Song:\u00a0 \u201c<strong>Yard Dog<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0from <em>Mississippi Moderne<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Songwriter: L. Miller<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tB8v7F3VgpY\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>WEBB WILDER Web-Exclusive Interview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>with\u00a0<em>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/em>\u00a0magazine publisher, Merlin David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15774\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-7-with-Jason-Ringenberg-at-the-Five-Spot-in-Nashville.jpg\" alt=\"webb-wilder-7-with-jason-ringenberg-at-the-five-spot-in-nashville\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-7-with-Jason-Ringenberg-at-the-Five-Spot-in-Nashville.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-7-with-Jason-Ringenberg-at-the-Five-Spot-in-Nashville-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Webb Wilder (born John Webb McMurry over 60 years ago) has forged a path to his own brand of music. He\u2019s a blues\/rock \u2019n roll singer, guitarist and actor, with that amazing radio voice. When you talk with him, you are hoping he\u2019ll let you know what prize you\u2019ve won for being the 11<sup>th<\/sup> caller.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the early 80s, Wilder was in several rock bands, including Hattiesburg\u2019s the Power of the Steam and the Drapes. He and partner in crime Bobby Field read Raymond Chandler novels and watched <em>The Andy Griffith Show<\/em> and hooked up with Steve Mims, an Austin college filmmaker, to create a short film about a backwoods private detective who fell out of the 1950s and happened to be a musician: <em>Webb Wilder, Private Eye<\/em>. The film launched Wilder\u2019s music career and his early band, the Beatnecks. It aired on late-night cable networks A&amp;E and USA. You can still catch it on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15773\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-3-photo-credit-David-McClister-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"webb-wilder-3-photo-credit-david-mcclister\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-3-photo-credit-David-McClister-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-3-photo-credit-David-McClister.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His latest album, <em>Mississippi Moderne<\/em> (he says, pronounce it however you like) delivers \u201cYard Dog,\u201d an obscure song that Biloxi garage rock band The One Way Street recorded in 1966. He also covers Charlie Rich\u2019s \u201cWho Will the Next Fool Be?,\u201d Conway Twitty\u2019s \u201cLonely Blue Boy,\u201d Frankie Lee Simms\u2019 \u201cLucy Mae Blues\u201d and Otis Rush\u2019s \u201cIt Takes Time\u201d\u2014all dunked in deep blues and performed with a crew of cohorts that have been delivering Wilder music for years: bassist Tom Comet, drummer Jimmy Lester, guitarists Bob Williams, Joe V. McMahan and George Bradfute. Wilder wrote \u201cOnly a Fool\u201d with Dan Penn, and he and John Hadley reached back to Mississippi roots to pen \u201cToo Much Sugar for a Nickel,\u201d a phrase Webb heard from his mother.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With his groups the Drapes, the Beatnecks, the Nashvegans, Wilder mixed rock &amp; roll with Ventures style surf guitar and Duane Eddy twang. To hear some of his biting humor, check out his video \u201cHuman Cannonball\u201d on YouTube. Wilder spoke with us from NashVegas about his unique brand of music and his innovative approach to writing and performing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you choose \u201cYard Dog\u201d for <em>Mississippi Moderne<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, it is a cover of a very old, very obscure song originally by a little known Mississippi band that I remember hearing on the radio when I was a kid. They were called The One Way Street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15772\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-4-photo-credit-David-McClister-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"webb-wilder-4-photo-credit-david-mcclister\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-4-photo-credit-David-McClister-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-4-photo-credit-David-McClister-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-4-photo-credit-David-McClister.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve chosen this cover here, but what is your creative process for your own songwriting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No set process. Ideas come in unguarded moments which must be recorded or written down lest they be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What songwriting tip would you like to offer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Realize that your subconscious offers up all sorts of creative info but it is up to you to <em>let<\/em> it come through and to somehow remember it\u2014it\u2019s better if you record it before you forget it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 5 Musicians or Songwriters\u00a0who inspired you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hank Williams, Sam Cooke, B. B. King, the Band, the Beatles\u2014and so\u00a0many more.<br \/>\n<strong>Which instruments or equipment can you not li<\/strong><strong>ve without\u2014that help you write\/record\/perform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know. I have certainly used my 50-watt Hiwatt head a <em>lot<\/em> since 1986 although not so much lately. I have a bunch of guitars but gravitate to a few which are always some type, variation or derivative of Fenders and Gibsons. I did go through a Gretsch phase, and I\u2019m enjoying my Swope GTO.\u00a0It seems like all my guitar playing friends and I have guitars we don\u2019t play much, but that doesn\u2019t keep us from wanting more. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) I <em>am<\/em> pretty addicted to having a tuner on my pedal board.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15771\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-5-photo-credit-Harry-Simpson-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"webb-wilder-5-photo-credit-harry-simpson\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-5-photo-credit-Harry-Simpson-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-5-photo-credit-Harry-Simpson.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What previous albums should a new fan listen to\u2014to give them perspective on their new Webb Wilder journ<\/strong><strong>ey?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As far as my catalog?\u00a0Wow. Probably the first album, <em>It Came From Nashville<\/em> which was first released 30 years ago this year, and <em>Doo Dad<\/em> which was more of the pinnacle of our \u201cradio friendly (or not) Classic Rock\u201d kind of phase.\u00a0<em>Town and Country<\/em> was a very eclectic all-cover album.\u00a0There are others, of course, and they all play a part in the journey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does where you live geographically (Nashville\/Mississippi) or touring (Europe) influence your music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I think place <em>and <\/em>time influence me.\u00a0Can\u2019t speak for others, but I am and always have been a Southerner.\u00a0Having said that, I am an American, a baby boomer, a guy born and raised in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century who was totally influenced by all the stuff happening in the national media\u2014like the Beatles, Elvis, movies, cultural trends, fashions, while absorbing so much of the Afro-Celtic culture of the Deep South.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your Top 5 favorite albums?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Impossible really, but \u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>The Band<\/em> (1969) \u2013 The Band<\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Tambourine Man<\/em> (1965) \u2013 The Byrds<\/p>\n<p><em>Sing Great Country Hits<\/em> (1963) \u2013 The Everly Brothers<\/p>\n<p><em>Rubber Soul<\/em> (1965) \u2013 The Beatles <em>(the American version)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No Dice<\/em> (1970) \u2013 Badfinger<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15769\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Top5-Albums-WEB-WILDER.jpg\" alt=\"top5-albums-web-wilder\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Top5-Albums-WEB-WILDER.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Top5-Albums-WEB-WILDER-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next for you? New album? Touring?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems like these days you need a new album every fifteen minutes and it\u2019s harder and harder to figure out where to find recording budgets. I hope to find a way to put out some worthy heretofore unreleased stuff while I continue to write and scheme toward the next \u201call new\u201d release.\u00a0Touring is ongoing.\u00a0Been playing live for what? 30 years? 40? 45?\u00a0So, that is a given.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the best way for new fans to stay updated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WebbWilder.com. Listen to me carefully now. Go to webbwilder.com, and get on the email list.\u00a0Also, \u201cLike\u201d the Facebook page that is linked to WebbWilder.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15770\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-6-with-guitarist-Bob-Williams-photo-credit-David-McClister.jpg\" alt=\"webb-wilder-6-with-guitarist-bob-williams-photo-credit-david-mcclister\" width=\"660\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-6-with-guitarist-Bob-Williams-photo-credit-David-McClister.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Webb-Wilder-6-with-guitarist-Bob-Williams-photo-credit-David-McClister-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO FEATURE &amp; WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Artist:\u00a0\u00a0WEBB WILDER Song:\u00a0 \u201cYard Dog\u201d\u00a0from Mississippi Moderne Songwriter: L. Miller &nbsp; WEBB WILDER Web-Exclusive Interview with\u00a0M Music &amp; Musicians\u00a0magazine publisher, Merlin David Webb Wilder (born John Webb McMurry over 60 years ago) has forged a path to his own brand of music. 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