September 30, 2008
The T-Shirts are almost gone except for large sizes. Listen to the new radio commercial HERE.
August 20, 2008
The T-Shirt and new CD for $10 campaign is in full swing and they are going fast. The Whole Bottle of Wine is NOW up on iTunes!
June 23, 2008
The download and donate campaign doesn't seem to be going over to well so..... all of the Whole Bottle of Wine CDs should be available by mid July. Look for a CD t-shirt special for $10 for the 1st 100 sold. The new music should up on iTunes in a couple months.
January 3, 2008
Finally getting to the end of the recording process. Everything wasn't just right so we started over in August and are now, hopefully, still shooting for a Spring release.
September 26, 2007
Been recording all summer and working out the new material. Thank you to everyone that has been supporting! It's loooking like a release date will be sometime in the Spring of 2008.
March 17, 2007
Lots of new material!!! We will start studio recording VERY soon.
March 5, 2007
Aurora Astin Gregory was born at 7:34 pm. 9lbs. 21 1/4". Look for pictures soon.
February 23, 2007
We are now recording ALL of the live shows. If you scream real loud, you might just hear yourself on the next album.
December 5, 2006
Hollywood & Rose review
A review written for the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange
by Frank Gutch Jr.
(frank.gutch.jr@gmail.com)
This should have been recorded live. A fine studio production could have been a superb live production, for it is obvious that William Wyatt's real strength is performance. Blessed with a unique voice and a certain amount of roots credibility, he is ready-made for the coffeehouse and country fair circuits, band or no band, and one can only imagine what Hollywood & Rose might have been, recorded under such circumstances. Of course, we will never know and what Wyatt has left for us is good even if it could be better (most musicians I know are never satisfied and always think what they do could be better). The studio has just toned down what might have been.
Ten songs are presented, the best of which float around Wyatt's folk roots. There is a hint of Dylan here and there, thanks mainly to acoustic harmonica, and it works well as does Wyatt's phrasing, much of which ends phrases with a slight waver. There are also ghosts of John Prine and Steve Goodman and a host of other folk composers in the songwriting. Only ghosts, though, as Wyatt struggles with the poetic muse upon which the greats lay their claim. Occasionally, though, the performance overcomes the material and Wyatt strikes a note of consequence, as in Hold My Hand, an R&B/folk hybrid which echoes the Holmes Brothers at their softest, and Good Things In Life, an introspective folk ballad. Besides his phrasing, Wyatt stands out by his choice of musicians, for the musicianship is prime, especially the electric guitars of Rusty Wright and Mike Balavitch, whose sense of touch is beyond the norm, as is Neil Woodward's banjo on Country Night.
There is a lot about Wyatt to like. His approach to the music is personal and warm. You can hear it in the way he delivers a tune, the way he wraps his harmonica around the beginning and end of a song. He's probably a nice guy, even. But nice falls short on an album full of mundane rhymes and trite phrases. Wyatt's music tells me he has more to offer. He just needs to take some time and find how to deliver.
An aside: It pains me to sound negative, especially when a musician has put his or her music on the line, but I'm really not. I like this CD and have played it for a solid month trying to dissect it fairly. The verdict is that while this is not the album I would want, there is enough here to make me want to follow Wyatt as he works toward that point in the future at which everything melds. He has the talent. I hopefully have the time.
October 16, 2006
The LAST Opera House show will be this weekend. This is your last chance as we will not be able to rent the building after this date. Buy your tickets Go Here.
July 16, 2006
Hollywood & Rose is available from Discs & Tapes Unlimited
(517) 545-9154
4120 E Grand River Ave
Howell, MI 48843
June 10, 2006
FINALLY..... Hollywood & Rose is now available from iTunes. Check out the Digital Distribution page HERE or just search for William Wyatt on the iTunes site.
June 1, 2006
Tickets are now available on this website for the 2006 Summer Opera House Shows. Go Here
May 22, 2006
New Video Clips on William Wyatt MySpace site.
May 15, 2006
New Hollywood & Rose merchandise is avaliable from www.cafepress.com/encompass
April 17, 2006
Check out some of the video from the release party. Lots more to come! On this site and more on the myspace.com/williamwyatt site.
April 5, 2006
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You !!!! For helping us sell out both shows at the release party!
March 25, 2006
One week to get tickets for the Hollywood & Rose release party. VIP tickets are $20 and as of today there are only 17 left!
February 11, 2006
'Hollywood & Rose' is avaliable from eMusic. Check out the Digital Distribution page!
February 5, 2006
Wyatt will be on the 94.7 WCSX Detroit radio program OverEasy on March 18th at 10:20am. Podcast of the show is now avaliable! #14
February 1, 2006
Wednesday February 8th - Wyatt will be with Neil Woodward at Memphis Smoke. They will be playing at 9:30pm for a 70 minute set.
