Everything about Blues Boy Willie totally explained
William Daniel McFalls, better known as
Blues Boy Willie (born
November 28,
1946), is an
African-American blues singer and
harmonica player from the small
cotton-growing
town of
Memphis, the seat of
Hall County in the southern
Texas Panhandle located east of
Amarillo. McFalls is attempting to revive the historical popularity which blues
music enjoyed in his native Memphis during the earlier
decades of the
1930s,
1940s, and
1950s. Ironically, blues music came of age in the much better known "Memphis",
Memphis, Tennessee, once a major cotton-growing region.
McFalls is known for his unique
urban sound and his keen sense of humor as he attempts to make blues, sometimes defined as the "
secular folk music of American blacks" pertinent to modern society. Reared in a musical family, his father was in
Ma Rainey's touring
minstrel show. Among McFalls' recordings are "Leroy" and "Where Is Leroy?".
McFalls graduated from Memphis
High School and then studied music at nearby two-year
Clarendon College, then Clarendon
Junior College in
Clarendon, the seat of
Donley County, where he learned to play the
upright bass and toured the college circuit as a
guitarist. Later he moved to
Los Angeles, where he spent a decade promoting his music and touring the
California coast with a blues trio.
In
1988, McFalls joined Ichiban Records at the invitation of a boyhood friend, blues
producer Gary B.B. Coleman. In
1990, his album "Be-Who?" remained on the
Billboard charts for twenty-one weeks. His albums have been recorded with a small
studio band. In novelty numbers, McFalls engages in bantering, including one comical exchange about the legitimacy of his children with his then wife, "Miss Lee".
Through B.B. Coleman, McFalls met
Johnny Rawls, and the pair started the "Blues Review" touring company which performed in the
American South.
Rufus Thomas,
Tyrone Davis, and
Johnnie Taylor joined the group. Rawls then asked McFalls to be an artist on his new label, Deep South Sound.
Steve Leggett of All Music Guide says that McFalls "makes things work by the sheer force of his engaging personality."
Early in
2008, McFalls was featured on a segment of
Bob Phillips'
syndicated television anthology series Texas Country Reporter.
McFalls' musical listings:
1. Break Down and Cry
2. Keep on Moving
3. Got Some Loving
4. Always Love You
5. Down in Texas
6. Tight Jeans
7. Get Loose
8. Love
9. Greyhound Blues
10. Blues Boy (Instrumental)
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