He landed in Nashville smack dab in the middle of the eighties with a crash, a fireball of rock and roll. Webb Wilder, tongue in cheek, with an oddball sense of humor that rode on a rockabilly beat and paid tribute to Elvis and Ricky Nelson, poked fun at the Music City’s sense of self-importance while at the same time respecting its roots. With his band The Beatnecks, Wilder was a Nashville local whose first love was rock, and for whom country music was, in the beginning, a guilty pleasure. As an artist he was the personification of the old line, "To Thine Own Self Be True."
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