#willy tea taylor

[mvaljean525]

I might not be to good at most things I do, but I am very best at missing you.

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Willy Tea Taylor

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Graphic - Phil Vance

[jeysphoto]

Willi Carlisle w/ Willy Tea Taylor at The Reverb Lounge, Omaha, NE, 03/28/2023, Jey Schroeder

[krispyweiss]

Jordan Smart & Willy Tea Taylor with Jodi Jones at Natalie’s Grandview, Columbus, Ohio, April 2, 2026

As Jordan Smart got to the end of his final song, he called up Jodi Jones and Willy Tea Taylor, who’d shared the triple bill, and led the audience in an a cappella singalong on “Who Would Jesus Bomb?”

Would it be kids in Palestine, or how ’bout Vietnam/would Jesus bomb the atheists, the Muslims or the Jews/I want you to ask yourself, what would Jesus do?

Thus ended the second night of Smart, Taylor and Jones’ Folk Around Find Out tour before a sell-out crowd that included Smart’s family and friends April 2 at Natalie’s Grandview.

“I love you all and you’ve kept me going,” the Ohio-born Smart, now based in Kentucky, told his daughter, mom, grandmother, fiancée, cousins and other supporters.

And though they came to hear Smart, they also listened hard to Taylor and Jones, who played 45- and 20-minute sets, respectively.

Jones played protest songs; Taylor was more personal; and Smart split the difference during his hourlong headline performance.

Playing acoustic guitar, blowing a harmonica and sounding like a genetic splice of “Masters of War”-era Bob Dylan, a young John Prine and Jesse Welles, Smart came out of the gate singing about immigration on the rambunctious “Pickle Song,” which had the audience screaming along. He then silenced them by ruminating on his sobriety on the tender “Apple Don’t Fall.”

Smart nodded to his influences on a talkin’ blues called “Song for Prine;” decried the U.S. health-care system on the title track from 2025’s Confessions of a CEO; and previewed his next release - and his desire for women to take over - on “Carry on the Fight,” a co-write with Mason Via, late of Old Crow Medicine Show.

Dressed for the outdoors in overalls, shades, a hat and with a bushy beard, Taylor sipped a glass of red wine and plinked out minimalist story-songs on a four-string acoustic guitar. He also told stories about listening to Ram Dass while doing leatherwork in his underwear and watching “the Jeffersons” with his bemused daughter in a motel.

“So life’s weird I guess,” he said. “Here’s a song - it’s called ‘The Journey.’”

Taylor remembered pets past on the moving, a cappella “My Dog” and cast a spell in memory of his boozing grandmother on “Big Jim’s Guitar” and “Bakersfield.”

With a banjo-pickin’ accompanist at her side, Jones played a guitar emblazoned with flowers and sung about “how terrible things are” on “Hard Times” and credit-card debt on “I Owe My Soul to Capital One,” her huge, quavering voice belying her diminutive size.

Grade card: Jordan Smart & Willy Tea Taylor with Jodi Jones at Natalie’s - 4/2/26 - B+

4/3/26

[behindthecounterinasmalltown]

Got no answers from my wandering

The lonely nights I stayed up a pondering

Alone and drinking, slowly sinking

A million miles from you. What was I thinking?

[cincygroove]

Photos – Willy Tea Taylor, 8/23/19, Whispering Beard Folk Festival, Cincinnati, OH http://www.cincygroove.com/?p=88547

[thehidesert]

Gimme a shot at the title/ I won't let ya down

Willy Tea Taylor, Knuckleball Prime

[missdandthebeards]

Men with beards in videos with The Picturebooks, Willy Tea Taylor and Fink

Words are overrated. Here are some videos of men with beards singing great songs.

Willy Tea Taylor “You Found Me”:

The Picturebooks “The Rabbit and The Wolf”:

Fink “Hour Golden”:

Yours sincerely,

Miss D

[attorneyofrecord]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWXDLUsFTu8) 

 Willy Tea Taylor - Bones