Traceys Mend

Who is Tracey? She is not a pretty face seen at a station neither the name of some fast car.She is neither the name of a guitar nor the name of an old flame.Tracey is just a tough name that could belong to anyone or anything. Thus, Traceys Mend is the name of a band. Over the past seven years Tracey has developed a sound that can be heard coming from a storage unit rented for a few dollars a month.Tracey is a blue collar band that is driven by the aspiration to write music worth believing in.One goal and one vision, tunnel vision, until the light at the end of the tunnel can be seen closer to the end or closer to the train.Traceys Mend was formed in the fall of 1999 with the idea of recording an acoustic album.What started as an easy project snowballed into adding new members, losing members and recording anything but an acoustic album.With the help of a local producer (Daddy J. Fez) and with completed songs, Tracey began recording their debut album called Blue Above The Wires.Everyone in Traceys camp had never recorded a full album, so there was a lot of recording and rerecording.There was a lot of writing and rewriting.There was a lot of time given to strip down and redress all the songs that were being written.Each song on the Blue album had been rewritten musically and lyrically more times than can be remembered.This was a major plus because Tracey was learning how to write songs that could possibly be radio friendly.So there was nothing left to do but hurry up and wait.Tracey put in more time rehearsing than they did playing live.Most of the local festivals that the RGV had to offer were welcomed because cover bands were preferred by club owners.If a band had three hours of some elses music then that band had a paying gig.It was not easy coaxing club owners to let original bands have the time of day, except for a few visionaries.Seven years have come and gone and along with those years so have many faces. Within all those years Tracey has played in all sorts of places.Tracey has felt the highs of opening up for a few big bands, and they felt the lows when people just wanted them to stop playing so as to eat a quite dinner. Nonetheless, Tracey is still writing new material and eagerly waiting for their debut album to be released.Tracey seems to be around the right people at the right place and the right time.