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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
