I woke with trepidation and as I looked out the window I was greeted by a world of swirling whiteness. Snow. Lots of snow. My friend Gary Colvin’s worst nightmare. Gary is our point man in upstate NY. Our “closer” if you will. He gets butts in seats. Back in the late part of last [...]
When last I left you we were headed out to the Marriott Hotel in downtown Memphis to spend some time in the swirling vortex that is the Folk Alliance Music Conference and play a song or two for a late night showcase. When we stepped into the bar, because where else would we go?, we [...]
When I first talked to Jimmy (Davis that is) about coming to Memphis and playing for a week I let him know that my alterior motive was food. Mostly barbecued pork and fried chicken. It is Memphis after all. My first afternoon here we re-visited Central BBQ in midtown and I fell hungrily onto a [...]
Back at Murphy’s Bar last night. I wrote a bit about it last June when WW, Jimmy, Ray and I played with steel guitar ( and every other kind of guitar it turns out) wizard Eric Lewis for a rousing, rabid, Memphis crowd. It was awesome. I should have known, but I really had no [...]
Memphis….. I’ve written about you before and now I’m back for more…. I arrived road dazed and stiff from my drive. Dallas to Memphis is a long haul, but worth it. I pulled up to The Sidecar Cafe just as the February sun said “see ya” and was greeted by about 100 motorcycles. My host [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have a great life. I make music with exceptional musicians. This past week I had the great pleasure of playing on a few tracks for a new record by an artist from the Netherlands named Bart De Win. Walt is almost always producing a record for someone and whenever it’s appropriate, we Mystiqueros are [...]
