Listen to Mick Byrd

Award winning singer-songwriter Mick Byrd has newly released an intensely personal album titled A Few Good Tunes. Mick possesses the remarkable ability to switch between the sentimental, the serious, and the lighthearted in his songs and lyrics. One of the most easy to overlook songs on the album is titled "Airplan Man" and it is about imaginitive games his kids played while growing up. In "This Old Truck" Mick sings a light hearted song about how he trolls around in his rusted out, seventies era farm pickup. The chorus plainly states "This old truck's been good to me/ Don't want no fancy cars or SUVs."

If you ever see Mick in concert, you might hear him sing his earlier songs that focus on justice, social equity, and recognizing the plight of the poor. On Mick's first album, No Frills, Mick opens the CD with a track titled "Where You Goin' Bobby." The song is an account set in gritty and desolate East St. Louis and it is about a boy who contemplates using violence to solve his problems. In the third verse of the song, Mick sings reveals a scene of the struggle singing, "Mama presses her face up to the glass/ Bobby's gone again into the nighttime/ She's got a feeling this might be the last."

Despite the sometimes grave subject matter, Mick's music is usually lively and catchy. Mick performs with a talented group known as Bonus Track. The band uses a wide variety of instruments including banjos, mandolins, harmonicas, and fiddles.

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