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Webb's albums (produced by R.S. Field)

Hybrid Vigor, 1989

It Came from Nashville, 1993

Doo Dad, 1991

Town and Country, 1995

Acres of Suede, 1996

It Came from Nashville Expanded, 2004

Scattered, Smothered & Covered, 2005

About Time, 2005

Notes from Webb on THE BEATNECKS and producer/collaborator R.S. FIELD

Webb on THE BEATNECKS:

Guess ya can't have it both ways but, I've always thought of myself as being IN the band rather than having one. Don't get me wrong I'm at least the first among equals! Having said all that, in the beginning it was "The Beatnecks FEATURING Webb Wilder." It became WW and the Beatnecks, Webb Wilder, "the man and the band", Webb Wilder(no band name) and later,"WebbWilder and the Nashvegans."

When we were nominated(in the Rock and Roll category..How cool is that?) for the Mississippi Music Hall of Fame last year we were listed as "Webb Wilder and the Beatnecks." We thought we might as well go back to that name. The only reason we ever abandoned it was everybody(well, a lot of people) kept calling us the Beat-NICKS! Hell, they got Nashvegans wrong, too!

They are a great bunch of guys, great musicians and we make a Helluva racket together.

JIMMY LESTER has been playing with me on and off(mostly on) since 1985. He is on all my albums. He is a' one of a kind' drummer and a 'one of a kind guy'. We really seem to be able to get "under the beat" with one another. TOM COMET(bass) says if you have the two of us there, you got a band.p Jimmy was an original member of Los Straitjackets. While there, he appeared on bunches of albums, TV shows, tours, television, etc. He also co-wrote a lot of their material. He has recorded and/or toured with Billy Joe Shaver, Hayes Carl, Scott Miller and the Commonwealth, Los Straitjackets and too many others to mention.

TOM COMET is the ultimate combo bass player/harmony singer. He's a great driver, too! I first met Tom when he was playing with Tim Krekel and the Sluggers, Nashville's best little 3 piece Rock and Roll band back in the 80's. He was supposed to be the guy back in '84 or '85 but, was loyal to Tim. He came on full time in '96.

GEORGE BRADFUTE, "the tone chaperone" started playin ' guitar with me in '93. He has done so on and off from then 'til this day. He plays bass(brilliantly!) on those rare occasions when Tom can't make it. He is the one who suggested TONY BOWLES as a good choice for a lead guitarist.

TONY BOWLES first started doing gigs with me in 2000 and has come and gone due to stints with Martina McBride, and Trace Adkins not to mention his long association with Hank Williams, Jr. and his touring organization. Years ago he played with Henry Lee Summer and has played on and off with Jimmy Hall(Wet Willie) for quite a while. The live DVD, TOUGH IT OUT" is a rare line up of all of us performing at the same time! Usually it's one or the other of the two guitarists(Tony and Geroge) myself, bass and drums.

I consider them all to be Beatnecks. I always looked at what we do as Rock and Roll. The Beatnecks(that includes me!) are and always have been a Rock band for Roots fans and a Roots band for Rock fans, kinda like the Stones with Tex Ritter frontin' 'em!

R.S. FIELD

I have known him so long that I can speak with some authority in saying, "He's one of a kind." Bobby, R. S. "Crow" Field and I belonged to the same Episcopal church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi as kids. In fact, his mother was my first Sunday school teacher.

I didn't really know him until adolesence. He's two years older and went to a different elementary school and junior high. He first came to my attention as an incredible drummer, a snappy dresser and a genuinely colorful character. He kind of smiled on my first band, a well intended but surely god awful aggregation called THE POWER OF STEAM. Coming from an older guy who played in better bands, this gave us a modicum of confidence we might not have had otherwise. We did get better as time went on. Later we played together in a band called FIRETRUCK. Bobby went on to be an original member of a great band with eclectic tastes called THE HOWLERS.

After the original HOWLERS broke up it became OMAR AND THE HOWLERS. (Kent 'Omar' Dykes and Bobby collaborated on songs and recordings later.) I was in a band called THE EVERREADY BROTHERS which Bobby helped me put together in the mid seventies. We moved to Austin, Texas and the HOWLERS followed six months later. They caused more of a sensation than we did and Bobby and I moved back to Mississippi to write songs and start another band called THE VIEWMASTERS, which morphed into THE DRAPES. With this change Bobby bowed out of the spotlight, beginning a tradition of working behind the scenes as a producer, arranger, songwriter and co-writer, which has been the case up to today.

He is the most creative person I've ever known. Hard to pigeonhole, he is almost the James Thurber of Rock and Roll while at the same time a dozen other things to boot. He is one of the most artistic and capable record producers in the world in additon to being a distinctive vocalist, drummer, guitarist and composer. he even has been known to peck on some keyboards. Duruing the Drapes era he worked with then student Steve Mims. It is out of this association that the three way partnership of those guys and myself was born. This first was made into "iconography" with "Webb Wilder: Private Eye: The Saucer's Reign" and later in "Horror Hayride." Now we've done another one...."Scattergun." Bobby has produced all of my albums as well as recordings/albums for Billy Joe Shaver, John Mayall, Scott Miller, Allison Moorer, Sonny Landreth and many others.

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