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You don't have to be from Texas to love Bob Wills. Former hobo, barber, and minstrel performer Wills was, for our money, the most important white American musician of the 1st half of the 20th century. Listen to his rollicking, buckdancer's choice, Big Taters in a Sandy Land up against the achingly exquisite gypsy jazz-meets-box social Just Friends (aka Dean Waltz), and one hears all of America, with musical references that cross all cultural borders, all played by a soulful man, a man in love with the music, but tormented, in that it was his sinful fiddle that had earned his bread, not an "honest job". Visit his online museum at http://bobwills.com/museum.html and read Jody Nix's sentimental but stirring account of Bob's last recording, the classic For The Last Time, selected as one of the 200 most influential Country albums of all time by CMT.com.

We'll be at Norm's this Thursday the 26th for a genuine All Points South show, featuring a couple of guest acts sure to tickle your innards -- the luxurious Bill Vinett and Friends kick things off with a bang, to be followed by super songwriter Lou Vargo. Then we'll get up to do a reading of Samson Agonistes, complete with the jawbone of an ass. Let's start at 8, shall we?

Go to Norm's tomorrow night and catch two of the best songwriters on the planet -- tall Tony Laiolo, local wiffleball legend, and the captivacious, eclectrical Annie Mosher, who's expecting...us to be there. All Right.

You got nothing better to do on a Thursday night.

For bio, hi-res jpgs, interviews, review copies, contact: Sue Havlish, Big Sister Promo, Nashville, cell 812-327-5494, sue@bigsisterpromo.com. To hear selected cuts, visit www.MySpace.com/DavisRaines.