I've been influenced by all kinds of things, events,and people throughout my life in various ways. When I was very young I was influenced in various ways by Susan Dey of the Partidge Family. She was inspirational to me. Kieth Patridge was a punk of course. And none of this influenced my musical tastes or sounds or directions in any way whatsoever.
Sounds Like
I only sound like Bob Seeger to two people in Austin who are permanently chemically altered. I think I sound like Tom Waits trying to sound like Bob Seeger trying to sound like Sammy Davis Jr. before his Rat Pack period. Of course it's difficult to be objective.
Brent Mitchell's music is steeped in his own experiences, even when it is not autobiographical. He grew up a longhaired kid in a Texas town in the Vietnam War years. He lived in his poet father's bachelor pad, and accompanied him most every night from a very young age to jazz clubs, honky tonk dance halls and blues joints.
He later dropped out of high school to travel the U.S. on foot, and later became a cowboy for several years of his oddessey. He's played every kind of music venue from house concerts to dance halls, and from stage concerts to pubs in England where he played with blues bands and even a band which sometimes played cajun music, sometimes old English folk, and sometimes played as a Latvian folk band..
This year his song, Hand of God, as sung by Austin's Bonnie Whitmore got a grammy listing. He has never recorded the song himself, but has recorded three CDs full of great songs; Reciting Whitman to the Cows, Fallen Angel Palace, and a new CD that is self titled. He has shared the stage with many well known Texas Americana artists such as Robert Earl Keen, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Slaid Cleeves, as well as a number of mainstream acts. He travels to Texas frequently, but currently lives in Wisconsin and sometimes in the UK. Tom Geddie expresses what many have experienced from one of Brent's shows in a 2006 article in Buddy(Buddy Holly) Magazine; "Just when I was beggining to lose faith in this music scene, somebody has to come along and do this to me - to make me care again...There is POWER in his words, and in his playing, and in his quiet performance."
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The Brent Mitchell Band
Eleanor Whitmore, Bonnie Whitmore, Jondan MacBride, Jeff Sorensen, and Brent Mitchell.
Check out Eleanor Whitmore's latest CD Airplanes and Bonnie Whitmore's latest album entitled Picking Up Pieces.
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Thanks for the add! No doubt I can travel a tad north soon to hear you sing, it would be a nice experience. Thank you for your songs, I love listening to them...along with sound I really enjoy good lyrics that tell a story.
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It's nice to play shows when people are there! So... If you would like to be on my mailing list send me an E-mail with your NAME and CITY to ntaylorsband@yahoo.com
