Hi yall, I got this letter from the guys at Cheers in Kissimmee where I played saturday June 20. I think it's very touching that they have asked me to be on their "Drinking Team" in light of the fact that i just celebrated my 3 year anniversary of sobriety. anyway I am honored and I happily accept! I will were the t shirt proudly.  I understand you don't actually have to drink alcohol to be on the "Drinking team", but i hope Diet Coke qualifies! (with a cherry and an umbrella)  

My name is Jim Wilkinson, I work for Steve Smith at Cheers Bar in Kissimmee. I gave you the Cheers Drinking Team Shirt. I just wanted to drop you a note to say how much we enjoyed having you at Cheers. Your show was awesome. We are planning a fishing trip for our drinking team members in August and you are certainly welcome to join us if you have the time...I'll send you another email. Thank you again for everything. I hope that you can come back and play another show soon.

Sincerely,
Jim Wilkinson and our entire staff at Cheers.

Here are a few still shots from the cartoon project.
Thanks to Jeff!

I want to thank everyone who came out to see me at my LAST Miss Monster. I have the most awesome life. I have so many friends. When I walked out on that stage I had a white light experience and realized just how I have it. I cannot thank ya’ll enough, and thanks to the monsters for inviting me. I will be gigging around town, so check back to BURTWILSON.COM or thepokerdogs.net . Sweetness and I are staying in Orlando at least for now and give it a bit playing gigs and hope that something works out. I am a rich man with all the friends a man could want. Come see me at Johnny’s and throw money at me.

Love,
Bubba

Hey Bubby, I’m so glad that you are well, and that you got your music out.  I drive my girls ( 5 & 7 yrs. old ) to school every morning and the always request wild azaleas.  I love to watch them in the mirror as they sing low every word even the foreign ones.  Thanks for all the laughs and music.  You may think it's disposal comedy but I have tons of Chief and Snuggy on MP 3.
Thanks Bubba Craig

this is good to post..It's from the guy who co-wrote "Wildfire" with Micheal Murphy in the late 70's.He is one of the nations very best songwriters.  His name is Sam Broussard and he lives in Lafayette Louisiana and is now playing guitar  for the "Mamou Playboys." They are a super popular band and they  travel all over the globe playing Cajun/Zydeco. He and I worked together in the 80's and we recently got reconnected. he wrote this letter about my Cd "Everett" and i am gonna have it framed and put on the wall right next to my letter from Mac McAnnaly!

damn burt,
i had gotten to peach moon and thought that's my favorite,  then thought the same thing about atchafalaya light then drunk at  denny's ...    you're one of those artists who sounds exactly like your  personality.  anybody wants to know about burt, well, there he is on  the record, everything you need to know.   he loves land and family  and don't say normal things about stuff.   he fell down a few times  in his food, but up to that point he pays attention if you're  talking.  you're just like that video on your site of you in your  drawers.  "yeah, well, this is me, duh." it's amazing that anyone can  fall for the bubba routine because you have "hey!  i'm burt wilson"  tatooed on your forehead.   how strange, because you make a living  being someone else, but it's amazing that you can even be someone  else for ten minutes.     you sing like a frickin angel, and if i can get you to do a  frickin beach boys choir on one of my songs i am gon do that  somehow.  maybe you should just sing all the lead too.    you have a love for a vanishing aspect of music, the Chord Change,  or Harmony.  none of the current crop of nitwits (and nincompoops)  seem to know what it is, much less what it's good for.   it's good  for gettn girls to wet their pants in a good way, that's what it's  good for, and they don't even know what caused all that humidity up  in their drawers.    you don't sound like mcCartney but you have a similar effect.  of  course we both know he wanted to write curvaceous woman while he was  married to that dead woman with the rack of ribs, but he didn't.   hey, i gotta admit that i haven't been in the car long enough to  hear ... i have yet to hear rollin' and balcony lady (heard florida  boy on your site; you should be a millionaire but of course you're  not) but it reminds me of a french expression for a top-heavy woman,  "elle a tout le monde au balcon," she has everyone in the balcony.    "tout le mond" literally means "all the world" which is the french  word(s) for "everybody."    (now, i know bubba will want to say that on the radio to  demonstrate his sophistication, so here's how you pronounce it: Ella too le mond oh balcon - but you stop just shy of pronouncing the  n in balcon, and mond is like james Bond. Wait ... bubba wouldn't  pronounce it correctly.    nevermind)    i must admit that i still drink, but i never get drunk (it feels  bad) and lately bloodwork has deduced that my triglycerides are at a  level that discourages even normal indulgence.   but i am aware that  a lot of those songs of yours were written when you were in that  dastardly phase of what is erroneously called "your" life.  (that's  right folks, "my life" is an oxymoron.)     the next time you make a record, you should heed my advice (no  one does, so neither should you) and use minimal production.  i  realize it's often necessary so there's something else to focus on,  and you need solos and etcetera.  so many of those songs would have  been killer with just your guitar, the same way the title cut is fine  with just your voices and everett.  the other guitars n' stuff are  fine, but not a decidedly marked improvement did they make beyond  what thou hast already done did.  i understand the need for  percussion and other stuff, but if you're just trying to make  something full, well, neither of us is phil spector, and he's  shithouse bananas crazy.    ignore me.    burt, that's a damn good record.  of all the good things i can say  about it, the best is this:  it has the character of someone i would  want to know.    sam

It really amazes me to get letters like this. i am so proud of the fact that someone would include one of my songs in an event that is so personal. i wanted to post this letter because ,as a song writer, it doesn't get much better than this. I think when you actually make a strong emotional impact on people with your words and music,it makes the struggle worth while. i would rather this than a Grammy any day.

Hey Bubba, my wife and i met you saturday night at Chyenne Saloon and i just wanted to tell you that your song "southern girl" reminded me so much of my wife that we played it at our wedding this past october. we would have loved to have the real deal there playing it for us but that would have been impossible. hopefully when we renew our vows there will still be a way that song can be played. i just want to thank you again. thank you.

good luck and god bless,
Allen and Kellie

Burt and Jeff and Dogs Playing Poker

Want to see Burt’s new band?? Burt and Jeff and Dogs Playing Poker will be at the Cheyenne Salon around 9:30 on 2/14. on 2/20, on 3/6 and on 3/20.

Here's a  pic of me from 1974.  An old girlfriend, Ginger Brown, sent it to me.  We were out at my favorite place in the world..The Mississippi River Levee at Baton Rouge.  I just always loved it out there. It's also amazing to me how SKINNY i was here.  I look an awful lot like my son Josh.  LOL    I was in LSU Music school at this time and my band CLUTCH was about 2 years old. I am surprised i don't have Dippity-Do hair gel still in my hair from the night before. I left college about a year after this for life on the road.  I would like to go back to school and get my degree in music.

Hey Bubba - Good to hear back from you man! The thing I really dug about the disc  was it's honesty. It wasn't forced or 'trying too hard'. Real natural,  it's great. Keep me informed on what you're up to and if ever you need a guest on  a future recording let me know. Cheers. Bri

Bubba,  i bought your cd at raglan road the other night, I'm a 25 year old hard working man. i cried like a 4 year old kid after listening to the cd... amazing job sir... every song is awesome.. the comedy stuff is great, makes me laugh, but that's easy to do. i thank you for putting so much in to this collection of songs.. you rock

I am in FL visiting my brother and he played the song Everett for me off your Drunken Piano cd and I really like the song! For some reason it remided me a bit of Paul Simons Still Crazy After All These Years. Anyway he said I should email you since I liked the song so much, so I just wanted to congrtatulate you on your success after waiting over 20 years and all your problems and everything. That song I find to be very emotional and I'm sure you put that emotion into your music so I think that is awesome.. Keep up the good work and your passionate song writing & singing :) ~Jonathan

Hey Bubba; I'm a 31 year old Marine Corp Veteran, and have seen and done some tough things.  Even lost some close friends, delt with an alcoholic, drug addicted father, ect...  Through it all, I seem to be able to keep my composure when I think of those sad times.  However, every time I hear the "Everet The Drunken Piano" song, I can't help but cry.  It reminds me that I, We, are all human.  Thank you for such a beautiful composure.  God Bless you and the Monsters! Your Friend; Jason.

I will be at Raglan Road at Pleasure Island this Friday from 4:30pm till for the half-way to Saint Patty's Day celebration..I will get up and do the Beer song with my favorite Irish band Tuskar Rock! It's happening all week. but I will only be there on Friday..
Come experience why Sweetness and i love IRELAND so much AND Raglan Road is the very best place to party and eat.. We go twice a month. Some of the guys in the band Tuskar Rock played on my Everett CD..they are the very best musicians in this town, in my opinion.
So see you at Raglan road this Friday for the half way to saint Patty's day bash!

Burt did an interview with Dave and Lesly on Magic 107.7

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I FRICKIN LOVE THE UK!! I WANT TO GO PLAY THERE AND HAVE SOME JAM BUTTIES! I got a great letter from the UK, and I thought I would post it. I had no idea my songs are available on iTunes UK!!That kicks ass! Somehow I find that the English get my songs and melodies  much faster than America. Over  here it's a slow burn..they want more Pyro!! BUT I had know idea I had so many  fans of my serious music in the UK. I am overwhelmed and very happy about that. They are getting it over iTunes..so I want all my UK fans to know I am available.    In other news,  soon i will have some of my comedy up on burtwilson.com. I am going to re-record and do some of my funny songs up properly and make it funny, WITH good music. We will have to see.. my serious music and my comedy DO NOT get along..I may ruin them both by combining them. It seems to be only certain ones that work.. but.. I'm gonna do it anyway.   Thanks to everyone for checking here at burtwilson.com.  I will have some live chatting going on here after i get back from the MONSTER cruise. I will be taking requests and playing some new songs I am working on. I would Love to get some folks from the UK in on that!!   Please write me anytime..I write everybody back........maybe.
Love,
Burt BUBBA Wilson


Hi Bubba Just downloaded your album from iTunes and thought I would drop you an  email to say how much I enjoyed it. Each song is full of emotion.  There was not a single song I didn't enjoy. As a side note, I dont know if you were aware that the album is  available on the UK iTunes store? It would be worth letting all of the  fans of the show from the UK know as I am sure there are loads of  people like me who wanted the CD but had no way to get it (or so I  thought until I found it). Once again, thank you for the amazing songs.
Love the Monsters

Anthony Usher (No1 Monster fan from the UK)