Having played guitar all his life, Brian has developed some skill on the git-box, and possessing a creative (and somewhat disturbed) imagination, he is a master storyteller. Before ‘CHOSEN,’ he’d recorded six home-grown projects. His acoustic novel “ChickensPigs” received the Best Florida Folk CD award from The Florida Times Union in 2013. And thousands have enjoyed the tale of Painter Kellet, a homeless man in Key West, from the acoustic novel ‘KEY.’ But now the floodgates have been loosed. Brian and friends give us some real ear-candy with ‘CHOSEN.’ Over the top production value, musicianship to beat the band, and a riveting storyline makes this a pleasurable and thrilling listening experience.
(photo courtesy of Paul Garfinkle)
Brian Smalley grew up a military brat.
His family moved twenty times in eighteen years. So it's no wonder that wanderlust found its way into his music, and into his feet as well. Florida has been home since 1976, beginning in Belle Glade, where Brian started to get semi-serious with the guitar. Then it was rock bands in Winter Haven and Tallahassee, then solo gigs at tiki bars in Cocoa Beach and Orlando. Now he lives in Zellwood, and he's still making music all over the state with intensive guitar arrangements of well known tunes and his own original songs too.