Pat Mitchell and Billie Worley blend different styles into family harmony

Published April 7, 2011 in the Commercial Appeal

When Pat Mitchell, 40, first met her future husband, Billie Worley, 39, she was bearing a platter of homemade ribs. Proving that the quickest way to the heart is through the stomach, Billie fell in love with her immediately.

Pat is the director of development and communications at the Memphis Music Foundation, and Billie is associate producer for 1049 Productions and an actor and musician. They met in the summer of 2003, when Billie was touring with an old friend of Pat's from the band Candlebox. They had a gig in Little Rock, and Pat knew that the best thing you could do for a band on the road without a tour bus was to make food. "There I was with an Afro and a plate of ribs," says Pat. Billie laughs and says, "I was like, 'Who is this little angel?'" (Read more)