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Gig Calendar
Thur May 23rd
Doc's Seafood Grille
Marble Falls, Tx
Door: 6:30 no cover
Sat May 25th
Angel's Icehouse
Hwy 71 W.
door: 6:30 Free
Just missed me @
Chiso's Grille
Hill Country Galleria
Lakeway, Tx
Uncle Billy's Brew
Lamar & Barton Spgs.
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This Fawn Reads Putts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqRPbyozcZE
Stand-Up Squirrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_mPRYaVqzc
Welcome to the image gallery
Old friends get together
Enjoyed opening for Gary P. Nunn at Angel's on Saturday.
It was a cool & beautiful night in the Hill Country. Had a big listening crowd, a lot of Gary P fans, so it was easy to get 'em going, Then, when he played, the place turned into a Texas dancehall scene, and of course, a rousing round of audience participation on London Homesick Blues, when he played his all-time favorite.
If you couldn't come you missed a great show, & we hope to see you next time.
Wyatt & Chuck Rainey, Bassist Extrordinaire
After dinner one night with Chuck at a Deep Ellum Blues club, being gracious, & well off, he volunteered to pay for our meal. But just before he went up to play his set, I happened to look down under the table, and there on the floor was a wallet. I opened it & found a driver's license with his name and photo on it. Here's the story behind this shot... I told my girlfriend, Claudia to get her camera out, and get a picture. As I stepped on stage, I asked Chuck if I could borrow a couple of bucks to tip the waitress. He said "Sure", reached back to his pocket and got this weird look on his face and said, "Man, I've lost my wallet!" before he panicked, I whipped it out and handed it to him. The smile of relief on his face was, well, the one in this photo.
Chuck is one of the best, & most revered Bass players in the world, having played with the likes of Aretha, Steely Dan, (all the cuts on Aja except one), and almost everyone else in the recording biz. Glad to count him as a friend. Unfortunately he had a stroke in 2011, and lost his ability to perform, but at this writing is doing better, and is getting his chops back. It will be great to hear him on his next recordings. We will all be the better for that. Love you Chuck
Chuck is one of the best, & most revered Bass players in the world, having played with the likes of Aretha, Steely Dan, (all the cuts on Aja except one), and almost everyone else in the recording biz. Glad to count him as a friend. Unfortunately he had a stroke in 2011, and lost his ability to perform, but at this writing is doing better, and is getting his chops back. It will be great to hear him on his next recordings. We will all be the better for that. Love you Chuck
Ray-sing $$$ for charity
Ray & I, (in our younger days), at Austin City Hall for the Gibson, giant 10 foot guitar, unveiling ceremony. I'm happy to have participated in the raising of over $500,000 for Austin charities. Biggest guitar I ever saw, let alone paint!
Malford Milligan & Wyatt on a warm Fall day
Malford & I get chummy again at the Galleria last week. Full soul experience anytime you get to hear him sing.
Willie shows off the 2012 Farm Aid T-Shirt which used my portrait of him
Lucky enough to help design the Farm Aid t-Shirt this year. We used the giant portrait that I painted of him in 2010. Glad to help out the people who help feed America...
Wyatt gets Best Picture Oscar for
"This is The Best Picture
I've Had Taken Lately"!
Doing some pickin' at Willie's gate
Driving by Willie Nelson's just down the road, beautiful day, thought it was a photo op
See Wyatt Akers at Angel's Icehouse
Always good food & lots of entertainment at Angel's. Open mics, Poker night, "live music 3 or 4 nights a week. Located on hwy 71 W.
Wyatt Wails
Everyone was getting into the blues at the Memorial Day concert.
You think it would have been hot.........it was!
You think it would have been hot.........it was!
Songwriter Contest
I'm doing my set at the Songwriter's contest. KDRP & Poodie's are giving away a cruise to the Mexican Riviera, & $500.00 as first prize, so I guess I'll finally have to get my sea legs. pass the Dramamine, & Tequila !
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PAINTINGS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My Bass player friend Rusty
I like to paint musicians at work
My take on the Glimmer Twins
More rock&roll art
Sand painted mask
This is a tribal mask done on a ceramic 3-D disc, it is finished with a coat of adhesive paint and a final coating of dyed sand
This bird is one of my "Kingdom" series 30"x 40"
Polly wants a paint job
This is one of my sculptural paintings
"Keys"
America Martin
mORE iMAGES
Claudia feeds one of our neighbors
In the Texas hill country,we like to feed the wildlife by hand. Here is one of our local beauties making sure no one goes hungry.
Wyatt & Matthew in the studio
in the studio at The Musician's Woodshed, Lakeway's best & only Musicstoredio
Solo time for Wyatt at the Lighthouse musician appreciation night
L. to R. Steve, Bubba, Wyatt, Kim, & Neil
Wyatt feeds "Buddy", our local, fearless squirrel. "He just decided one morning to eat from my hand, and has kept up his part of the relationship. That being, I supply the seeds, he makes sure that none of them become sunflowers."
Big Balls for Mardi Gras
Get your gris-gris on
Highway parking only, for Wyatt's latest show... parking lot?.....full!
Had a great time this last show of the season at Angel's. Always a good crowd the last few weeks of summer,. Looking forward to coming back in the Spring. Hope you can show up & join in the fun.
Neil & Wyatt
Let's get bluesy now!
A little bit about Wyatt...........................................................
It took a while to get in touch with my roots. For quite a few years I played a wide variety of music , rock, dance, country, jazzy instrumental stuff, always electric, always all-out, but narrowly, almost always a cover of someone else's song. But, when it got down to it, the roots of blues showed up in all the music I had been playing.
Since I've started earnestly writing original songs, my music has widened out to a more lyric-based, acoustic groove with a bit of soulful Texas blues-rock in the mix. Don't get me wrong, I can still rock it electric style too. Come see me at a music venue near you