Today on “Fun Facts Friday” it’s our band leader’s turn...Yep..The Big Cheese..The Grand Pooba...The Chief High Muckety Muck….Willie Wells. Willie was born in Charleston SC and spent a lot of his adult life just outside of Nashville TN. Willie returned to Columbia when his dad started to have health issues and took over the job of running Bills Music Shop and Pickin Parlor. He moved back permanently in 2015. He had promised his dad that he would keep the shop and band going, which he as done with great…

Today starts our “Fun Facts Fridays”, for the next few weeks we will talk to a member of the band and ask them a few questions to give everyone a chance to get to know all of us better. 

This week we are talking to Patrick Russell who has been with us for a few years now. Patrick plays mandolin, guitar and fiddle with us and on a few tunes even picks up the mandola to give the song a bit more flavor. Patrick is also a songwriter and has written a great many songs that we currently perform as a band. He was…