Stacey Blood is counting it off this summer with the anticipated release of his second album Millennium Blues. What to expect? The Morrison-ish, Beatlesque, Cash driven artist captures a mélange of rock, blues, and out-of-the-box style that he skillfully melds together for a sound that is very much his own. A fan of 60’s and 70’s rock, Blood awakens the nostalgic mind and sets the path for a timeless adventure with him.
Blood spent his influential years as a top-rated radio personality in the Dallas, San Luis Obispo and Fresno markets. This helped develop his multidimensional style. It’s certain to say that music was always part of Blood’s life. His father, Bobby Blood, was a session player and recorded/performed with renowned artists such as Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, The Doors, Steppenwolf, and David Bowie.
So fast forward into the millennium. Stacey Blood’s debut album Reversed Space was released in 2005 on Astral Records. In 2007, he released his single Sunday School which is peppered in psychedelia. With the final touches currently in progress on Millennium Blues, I was able to catch up with Blood and discuss the upcoming album, life in Nashville, and the fight against brown recluses…yes, it’s a trip of an interview!

Rock N’ Write – How’s your world in Nashville tonight?

Stacey Blood -A little quieter. Had thunderstorms today, sounded like the Battle of Bastogne.

Rock N’ Write – I think I have to Google that battle. It sounds intense.

Stacey Blood – Very intense, so they say.

Rock N’ Write – I’m gonna go on blind faith with that one. Shall we start with what year you were born?

Stacey Blood – Good call, blind faith was really the only way out of that one. I was born in 1976 in Fort Worth, TX. Spirit of ’76 man. That makes me a dragon on the Chinese birth chart, ya know.

Rock N’ Write – I happen to be a fan of the 70′s…and the Chinese calendar. I’m 1974 which makes me a tiger. Couple that with being a Leo…watch out people! So are you musically inspired by the 70′s?

Stacey Blood – A tiger and a leo? Didn’t Napoleon Dynamite call that a “Liger”? Yeah, of course the 70′s was a great time for music. Almost as great as the 60′s but both decades are the pinnacle of 20th and 21st century music….

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SB* Have you played in any other bands before?

Stacey* I have been in one other band outside of my own “band”. In 1994 I was in a hard rock band called The Hollowmen. Seems like a lifetime ago! Did it really even happen?

SB* How long have you been playing music?

Stacey* I started playing music in the 6th grade band, but I would say seriously playing and writing since just after high school.

SB* What instruments did you learn to play?

Stacey* First instrument I started on was trumpet. My father was a session player and performer in Hollywood in the 60s and 70s so it was really the instrument I knew the most about. That and bass guitar, as he played bass also. I picked that up in high school and really enjoyed it, but I found it really hard to write music on the bass so I transfered over to the guitar where I’ve been ever since. I have also dabbled around on piano as a writing tool as well.

SB* Where did you grow up?

Stacey* I grew up on the west side of Fort Worth, TX just a few miles from Carswell Air Force Base. I attended a private school for three years there and most of my life-long friends are from that time in that neighborhood. I moved to Mesqquite, TX for high school and left for California immediately after.

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About the video David Norris from Norrisong Productions had this to say: “Yeah, man we recorded it all by ourselves. We had the vision and the time so we just went for it and thought, you know, it’ll be the right thing to do. This is a crash course in how to decide to do a video on a whim and having it completed within ten hours!”.

It’s gonna be an album. Stacey Blood is expanding his 2008 EP into his first major LP release. This yet-to-be titled album is not only an extension in concept, but in collaboration. Returning for the completion of the record will be Nashville rising star producer, David Norris, behind the glass and many of the same players as well as some new surprises. “It’s been kind of an adventure because material keeps coming out and then I re-check what’s going on here” explains Blood. “But I’m pretty sure about the song list, on the 1st of March is the final pre-production session and then we’re off”. So how hard is it to expand an EP into an LP from songs recorded 24 months ago? “It’s not that hard. All of these songs go together. The concept is there. We’re using the same studio, same players, and we’re even re-mixing the first four with the rest to build continuity.”

Blood says the album should be ready for release this summer.