Sure, argues Perry, there's a smattering of that within A Small Good Thing, but not enough to ghettoize him within that one genre. "It got great reviews," says Perry, "() it got stuffed into places it didn't belong. People are going, "This isn't f-ing country!" The situation was exacerbated in Canada, where the CD "spent most of its life in warehouses."
The light at the end of the tunnel appeared at SXSW in the form of an editor from ''Buscadero'', a popular Italian music magazine. Unbeknownst to Perry, the editor was bowled over, and he then returned to Italy with a mission: to inform Europe of the genius of Bocephus King. Perry didn't know what was brewing when he was later interviewed for ''Buscadero'', nor when a European promoter called and booked a tour for him. After apprehensively walking onto a stage in Italy and finding that the crowd knew the words to all his songs, it dawned on him: Bocephus King had quietly become huge in Europe. "We did one big outdoor concert where I thought we were part of a huge festival," says Perry, "and it was just us."