Blue Mother Tupelo's sound is signature ... a southern blend with universal appeal. It's all about soul - mountain, delta, swamp, river, sunshine and rain.
Blue Mother Tupelo - the husband and wife team of Ricky Davis (acoustic & electric guitars, dobro, vocals) and Micol Davis (piano, tambourine, vocals) - began performing as a duo in 1995. Soon thereafter, drummers, bassists, harmonica players, fiddle players and other friends would sit in. BMT primarily performs as a trio with Johnny 'The Clock' Richardson (drums, percussion). Ricky & Micol also perform in the original duo format as well. Unique, passionate, inspired and unaffected by musical genres, Blue Mother Tupelo is pure heart and soul.
Most recently, BMT's dreamy southern ballad rendering of the 1959 Paul Anka hit, “Put Your Head On My Shoulder”, has been included in the motion picture Daltry Calhoun (Johnny Knoxville/Juliette Lewis), released September 2005. The soundtrack for the movie features the ballad and includes, as a hidden track, BMT's “Put Your Head On My Shoulder Jam', a foot-stompin, sanctified soulful back & forth vocal w/Ricky's dobro & Micol's tambourine. The Daltry Calhoun movie DVD, hitting stores in February 2006, includes BMT's music video as an 'extra' featuring Micol & Ricky and the 'Put Your Head On My Shoulder' ballad from the film.