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Though from a rural area, McFalls is known for his unique [[urban]] sound and his keen sense of humor as he attempts to make blues, sometimes defined as the "[[secular]] folk music of American blacks"<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9015780/ Blues - Britannica Online Encyclopedia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> pertinent to modern society. Reared in a musical family, his father was in Ma Rainey's touring minstrel show. Among McFalls' recordings are "Leroy" and "Where Is Leroy?".<ref>[http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?r=1&EAN=807240101227 Steve Leggett, Allmusic]</ref>
Though from a rural area, McFalls is known for his unique [[urban]] sound and his keen sense of humor as he attempts to make blues, sometimes defined as the "[[secular]] folk music of American blacks"<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9015780/ Blues - Britannica Online Encyclopedia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> pertinent to modern society. Reared in a musical family, his father was in Ma Rainey's touring minstrel show. Among McFalls' recordings are "Leroy" and "Where Is Leroy?".<ref>[http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?r=1&EAN=807240101227 Steve Leggett, Allmusic]</ref>
==Life and career==
==Life and career==
McFalls graduated from Memphis High School and then studied music at nearby two-year Clarendon College, then Clarendon Junior College in Clarendon in Donley County, where he learned to play the upright bass and toured the college circuit as a [[guitar]]ist. Later he moved to [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], at which he spent a decade promoting his music and touring the West Coast with a blues trio.<ref name="New Page 1">{{Wayback |date=20091027083436 |url=http://geocities.com/bluesboywillie1946/ }}</ref>
McFalls graduated from Memphis High School and then studied music at nearby two-year Clarendon College, then Clarendon Junior College in Clarendon in Donley County, where he learned to play the upright bass and toured the college circuit as a [[guitar]]ist. Later he moved to [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], at which he spent a decade promoting his music and touring the West Coast with a blues trio.<ref name="New Page 1">{{Wayback |date=20091027083436 |url=http://geocities.com/bluesboywillie1946/ }}</ref>