Old stuff, blues-based mostly. Songs by such blues masters  ("See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"). and Robert Johnson ("Love in Vain").

I also sing songs of my own. Plus, I have an unusual other interest: calypso songs of the 30s and 40s.

So if you come to hear me, expect acoustic guitar-playing, finger style and slide. My voice, guitar, and feet are miked through a sound system. You could say I'm a throwback, and I won’t mind if you do. But I'll bet you'll like the energy, and you'll discover that the root sounds for so much of today's music -- jazz, rock, funk, hip hop, you name it -- are here in these musty old songs.

he Ol' Perfesser's what they call me. I like playing for young folks, so you’re apt to catch me performing at high schools and the like. I visit history classrooms, band rooms, school stages, wherever there's room to hold my instrument horizontal like.

I teach kids how I play, what the songs are about, and why they matter. I tell 'em, "It's not important  what instrument you play. What's important is how you play it!" And I'll tell you something else: some of 'em get awful interested.

I can also deliver an honest-to-god historical lecture on the fateful history of the resonator guitar and how it became the ethnomusicological bridge -- there's that word -- between four separate American cultures.

And I will break it all down to bits right in front of me, so help me God. I'll stop in the middle of a phrase, stop just as dead as a dog at a rattlesnake hole, if there's something important to say about a song, or what's going on in the words, or the way I played it. It makes it hard to dance, but doggone it, it’s a teachable moment, if you know what I mean.

Anyway it don't matter, because the kids get it, see?

So it's not my business to be forward. But if the need should arise for a musical man, a raconteur of the blues, if you will ... well ... you could do a lot worse than Ramblin' Bill Keitel.

Yeah, I'm a throwback ... and that's just what I'm fixin' to be.