This week on Thinkin’ and Drinkin’ Bart talks with Steve Mackey. Steve, a former neighbor to Bart, talks about the early years of playing the bass in high school. He then attended Berkley in Boston for Music before moving to Nashville. Steve shares how he is able to put his own touch on a track while providing artists and producers what they are looking for.
Meet Steve Mackey: Steve Mackey has been a fixture in the Nashville music community for over 20 years, lending his talents to multiple recordings and performances with artists including The Wallflowers, John Oates, Garth Brooks, and Dolly Parton, among many others.
What Bart has to say: My guess is that Steve Mackey has played on a couple hundred of my demos. In a small world situation, I saw Steve walking down my road about 10 years ago and stopped and asked why he was on my road. He replied, “why are you on my road?” Unbeknownst to either of us, we were basically neighbors for several years before he moved closer into town. It was great to reconnect with another old buddy.
In this episode, you’ll hear
(About 6 mins in) Steve discusses when he attended Berkley in Boston.
(About 8 mins in) Bart asked Steve about when he started playing bass and if that was what envisioned for the rest of his life, and Steve said it’s all he wanted to do.
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