Is this guy still doing anything??? The answer is yes, though my blogging here my say different. I split my blogging time with my band the Mystiqueros, and no I haven’t posted much up there recently either. January is generally the slow time for traveling musicians such as myself and I’ve spent the month catching [...]
And the videos keep rolling in. If you follow the Mystiqueros Blog, you know that we toured the east coast a bit in August with shows in DC, Baltimore, NYC, Buffalo and Rochester. While on the road, we had the great pleasure of working with Music Fog to film some live performances. Below is the [...]
That’s what Drew Kennedy called her and I agree. The video below was created by 11 year old Lindsey. I don’t know her last an or where she lives but I like her taste in music and her video is inspiring. Why is it inspiring? Because it makes me want to create. People creating inspires [...]
….. that I’m turning into a musician. It wasn’t a compliment and she wasn’t referring to my musical abilities. You know the type. The ones that give us all a reputation for showing up late, leaving early, eating all the food, skipping the bar tab, bad with business, etc. etc. etc. I’m playing a songwriter [...]
My whole life I’ve heard about Memphis. The rich fertile musical soil there has produced too many of my influences and heros to mention. Over the years, I drove through Memphis a lot on my way back and forth to Nashville and played a couple of shows there in the first 2 years of the [...]
The other day I was spending a little time on Facebook. I saw a link that my friend Bob Doyle posted to something called The Passion Test. Bob and I are often talking about living life from your passions and have both spent time coaching other people to do so. I generally feel like I [...]
I love technology. I’m a closet computer geek. I love the tools man. However, there are some drawbacks. Beyond the “falling down the rabbit hole” trouble with surfing the web and losing hours of your life, there is also the danger of losing your life’s work. No, this isn’t going to be a tirade about [...]
Fresh faced and really not knowing a damn thing, and I didn’t know that either, I was roaming the streets of Austin. Well, mostly just one street. 6th street. I’d come to Texas with my 3 piece blues trio to make our way in what was then still a deep blues scene. On 6th street [...]
Like the song says, “Mostly I want to know that there’s gonna be a next time”. Last Tuesday, I woke up anxious. There were questions, and not particularly useful questions, running through my brain. I was sleepy. I was jumpy. Agitated. I guess it makes some sense. Later that evening I was scheduled to play [...]
In September of 2000, I released the first ever Bill Small record, “Singin“. I’d been involved in a couple of records and a cassette tape (showing my age) with bands before that, and I think “Singin” was the end product of the 90′s for me. All the musical roads I’d been down in my first [...]
