{"id":19711,"date":"2020-08-11T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2020-08-11T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:36:35","slug":"video-feature-interview-billy-crockett-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2020\/08\/video-feature-interview-billy-crockett-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Video feature &#038; Interview BILLY CROCKETT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19717\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-03.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Crockett\" width=\"660\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-03.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-03-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Video Feature &amp; Web-Exclusive Interview<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h1>Musician:\u00a0 <strong>BILLY CROCKETT<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3>Song:\u00a0 \u201c<strong>That\u2019s Something<\/strong>\u201d (from <em>In Session<\/em>)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZA-DcL3nfM\" width=\"660\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>BILLY CROCKETT FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL CONCERT<\/strong><br \/>\nBilly Crockett will be the featured artist this Thursday (August 13) at Blue Rock aLIVE!\u2014a unique virtual summer concert series\u2014featuring iconic Austin-based artists every Thursday this summer. Blue Rock\u2019s innovation, quality and creativity is evidenced in concerts produced in broadcast quality audio-video from their renowned Texas room\u2014streamed straight to you. The Season Pass was $105, but now you can get the rest of the season for only $60 (<a href=\"https:\/\/bluerocktexas.com\/events\">https:\/\/bluerocktexas.com\/events<\/a>). What makes a Season Pass unique is that you send in your headshot and they place it on a seat, so you will literally be <em>sitting<\/em> in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Crockett is a performing songwriter, producer and multi-instrumental session man with a dozen albums and decades of memorable songs. He is a guitar clinician for Yamaha who has been featured on BMI\u2019s songwriter panel at SXSW, the TV series <em>Troubadour Texas<\/em> and the Academy of Gospel Music Arts.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t been lucky enough to see Billy Crockett perform live, prepare to be blown away with his masterful guitar skills, uncanny musicianship, ability to arrange songs so it sounds full with just voice and guitar, and with his sharp incisive songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>We talked with Billy Crockett about his passion for songwriting, his commitment and need to connect with the music community at large and what continues to inspire his creative process.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19714\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-04.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Crockett\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-04.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-04-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>BILLY CROCKETT<\/strong> Interview<\/h2>\n<h2>with\u00a0<strong><em>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>magazine publisher,<strong> Merlin David<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Do you remember how the idea of \u201cThat\u2019s Something\u201d came to you?<br \/>\n<\/strong>There\u2019s a lot of calamity in this song. Hurricanes\u00a0Katrina and Rita were on my mind. The Great\u00a0Recession\u00a0of 2008 hit so hard. Central Texas was deep in drought and, at one point,\u00a0we were monitoring 75 wildfires. I was asking\u2014What do we have that we can keep? What\u00a0can the storm not blow away? And the answer was something like this song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us how these \u201cThursday Nights in Summer\u2014Immersive Virtual Concerts\u201d exceeded your expectations.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Engagement through a screen is not ideal, but here\u2019s the thing\u2014we bring ourselves to the encounter as much as we allow. Every Thursday I ask the artists and the\u00a0audiences to suspend their disbelief and to imagine that they are here together in a real event that will never happen again. And they do. The music community has missed each\u00a0other desperately and, even though only our pictures are in the same room together, the songs are delivered like medicine and the viewers know, in some crazy way, this is a\u00a0communal experience, right now, like no other. You can feel it. Another lovely aspect is how the series has given us\u2014the studio and team\u2014a role to play in this ghostly stretch\u00a0of coronavirus time. It helps to feel we are working to keep songs, artists and listeners alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19713\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-02.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Crockett\" width=\"660\" height=\"989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-02.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-02-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-02-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How has producing other musicians\u2019 albums informed your own songwriting and albums?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Everyone I work with teaches me something. Might be about breathing, preparing or the risk it takes to break your own rules.\u00a0Seems no end to learning about humans and songs. But\u00a0I have come to believe the central quest in every session is to locate the truth. It\u2019s rare.\u00a0It\u2019s about showing up, not hiding in the lovely arsenal of words, sounds and toys at our\u00a0fingertips.\u00a0It\u2019s about inhabiting a phrase of a lyric; being one thing\u2014guitar\/body\/mind\u2014not three. This is what I hope for in every phase of creation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the idea for one of our favorites, 1998\u2019s \u201cLines\u201d (from\u00a0<em>Watermarks<\/em>), come to you?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I was reading Annie Dillard\u2019s vital book\u00a0<em>The Writing Life.<\/em>\u00a0In the last chapter she describes the final flight of her friend, stunt pilot Dave Rahm. Dillard\u2019s lines are in miraculous sync\u00a0with her subject\u2019s. \u201cRahm\u2019s line unrolled in time. Like music, it split the bulging rim of the future along its seam.\u00a0The plane looped the loop, seeming to arch its back like a gymnast;\u00a0it stalled, dropped, and spun out of it climbing; it spiraled and knifed west on one side\u2019s wings and back east on another; it turned cartwheels, which must be physically impossible; it\u00a0played with its own line like a cat with yarn.\u201d This made me feel (and still does) powerfully animated. I thought about the trail my life has made through the world, the pattern of it.\u00a0And of people I know, and those I don\u2019t.\u00a0The intersections. Suddenly, I wanted to write the song about unseen lines being lifelines.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19715\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-05.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Crockett\" width=\"660\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-05.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-05-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the best advice you\u2019d like to give upcoming musicians?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Your instrument is your heart. Read, listen and work to increase your capacity to thrill, to weep, to know the still center of a story or the surprise waiting around the corner in the\u00a0third\u00a0verse. Oh, and try to give yourself a break now and again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where can new fans get more info and stay updated?<\/strong><br \/>\nNewsletter, Shows, Music: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billycrockett.com\/\">www.BillyCrockett.com<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/billycrockettmusic\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/billycrockettmusic<\/a>\/<\/p>\n<p>Instagram: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/billycrockettmusic\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/billycrockettmusic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out our May 2020 feature on Billy Crockett:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2020\/05\/video-feature-web-exclusive-interview-billy-crockett\/\">https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2020\/05\/video-feature-web-exclusive-interview-billy-crockett\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19712\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-01.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Crockett\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-01.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Billy-Crockett-01-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Feature &amp; Web-Exclusive Interview Musician:\u00a0 BILLY CROCKETT Song:\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s Something\u201d (from In Session) \ufeff BILLY CROCKETT FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! 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