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 first [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Glamorous Life 1
originally posted at http://www.bassplayersclub.com
this is kind of a random musing from the van. part of an ongoing series about the “glamour” of the road……
It’s noon and I’ve been in the Van for just about two hours. I stayed up a little too late with my friend Jimmy Davis and probably had one [...]
My first day of singing in the studio for the new record was rough. The human voice is such an interesting thing. There are times when I can sing anything. (or at least it feels that way) And then times when singing feels like peddling a beach cruiser up mount everest.
When I’ve coached singers I [...]
