Bryan Daisley Music

To put on a great performance (not that I'd know), you have to put in hours and hours of practice, sometimes grinding through repetition of the same few notes. It's brutal. And did I say hours? I meant years. Great…

Let's talk about the mid-life crisis. I used to wonder what a mid-life crisis was all about when I was younger. And now, as someone who has gone pretty far out there with music in his 40s, I certainly am…

[Originally posted on Facebook] I posted a music video yesterday that Facebook only let 17 of the 300 of you see in your feed... (it's still there). This is another thing people don't realize about small band life. A Facebook…

New recording of In California from a BDB practice on 5/22/23. Video is two camera angles spliced together. w/ Jack Parker, Sage Goewey, Kelly Smith, Alyssa Juun Stock and Stephanie Kay Music. The studio version of this…

To wrap this series up, here are 10 random pieces of trivia about the last song on my new EP, The Boy You Call Baby…

1. It's by far the most recent vocal recording, revealing a bit of change in voice…

Here are ten behind-the-music pieces of trivia about my recently released song She Loves Me Anyway...

1. I wrote it a few years ago, but held it until now. 
2. The opening line "I didn't say one kind word yesterday" was inspired…

Here are 10 behind-the-music trivia about my recently released song Lovers and Fools. 

1. The electric guitars are from the original demo...I just didn't feel like re-recording them to make them perfect, which is why they're a tad out of sync…

I would like to thank the, uh, seven people who have streamed Lovers and Fools on Spotify since launch! ... And the one person (out of 150) who clicked the email link. Ha. It's ok--I've watched this growing trend for…

Still thoroughly enjoying the break from gigging. I miss making music with friends, for the people who cared, but there was also the other 95% of the job. Here are the things that I miss the least, just 'cause I'm…

Got a couple kids starting a new year of school tomorrow (anyone else?). Here's a little poem I wrote for them last year on this exciting night, which I now dare say is a family tradition:

Twas the night before…

Last show of the BDB tonight for quite some time! Engel's in Edmonds WA, 9 p.m. to midnight. In August of 2021 we played our first gig in the Seattle area (pictured), and 22 shows later I feel great about…

I realize that 50 followers on Spotify is laughably small by today's standards, but I'm still proud to have hit the number. Thanks for that, friends. It seems like at least as many of you are on Apple Music as…

Dear Maybell began when I actually did sing to cattle out on a family farm, but as with all my other songs it ended up pulling from a lot of places to become a story that felt worth telling. I…

Here's my December album pick for you, and a personal story behind it:  Revival by The Fairfield Four. 

It is no surprise to my family to come home to a house that sounds like a gospel revival, with bands like…