Born: 1951
Birthplace: Fort Riley, Kansas
Current Residence: High Ridge, Missouri

Neil Wyatt was raised on a small farm in Northeast Arkansas, near a town called Marmaduke. Boys grow up fast on the farm, and Neil was no different. Neil was 12 when he and his brother bought their first pickup truck with money earned from picking cotton. Much of what Neil learned on the farm in his youth has shaped his personality and what he is all about today. His lat year on the farm was 1964, when his father had to go to St. Louis to get a job because of severe financial difficulties. Neil and the family were left on the farm to get the crop out. After the work was done, the rest of the family moved to the big city.

Neil wasn’t crazy about big city life. Things were different. He was 14 and had been driving for years, but now he could not. He had to wait until he was 16. He was a young man matured past his years, and many of the trivial matters that confront teens in the city were nonsense to him. Never the less, Neil carved out his place in St. Louis.

Neil graduated from Kirkwood High School in 1969. He went right to work. He married in 1970. In 1971 the first and only child, Martin was born. In 1979, Neil opened his own business, Wyatt’s Upholstery. He built the business into one that is respected and used by many designers and home decorating services in and around the St. Louis area. He had always had a love for country music going back to his childhood with memories of barn dances and radio and television shows. He had no one in his immediate family that was trained in music or instrumentation but any time there was folks around that were he would be drawn like a moth to a flame. He always hoped some day that he would have the time, resources, and hopefully the talent to make his own music. In the late 1980s he began taking guitar lessons. After learning a few cords it was obvious to those who were around him at the time that he had a burning desire and a driving passion to use the music as a way to express himself.

In the early 1990s Neil started singing and playing music seriously, and began his song-writing career after his guitar teacher expressed that he thought Neil had a real knack for the craft. Tragically inspiration for some of his songs came from the breakup of his 30-year marriage. But he also draws on his family heritage, farming background, and lifetime experiences as inspiration for his songs. Tom T. Hall said that “A man is not writing, if he can’t relate, to all the things that he sees in his life.” Neil Wyatt is certainly writing. His music is real country music with lots of soul and feeling. He released his first CD, Country To The Bone, in 2001. Some of his songs will tear your heart out, but he also has some fun, upbeat songs.

These days Neil Wyatt is a busy man. While he continues in the upholstery business, he is also working on his music career. He has formed a band and has also been doing several television and radio shows. Neil’s first single was release in March 2002. “Raising Hell Always Comes With A Cost” stayed on the charts for 22 weeks and went to #4 on Indie World Country Chart. Now the second release Captain Tom is doing great after 8 weeks it looks to be on track to be a #1 hit. Neil is singing about three to four nights a week and continues to write music. He says he would do it for free if he had to cause when people like what you’re doing there is no better feeling in the world. Neil has just found out recently that he is making heads turn in Europe as well as here in the States as one of Europe’s leading country music magazines is about to do a review on his album. This will be in print in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria some time this year. There has also been positive news from Ireland and France. Neil hopes to share more about himself through his music and would like to thank all the radio stations that has been playing his songs. Finally, take it from someone who knows, Neil is a great guy and has always been a great father.