Will Faeber grew up in Bowling Green, Ky. A small College town about sixty miles from Nashville. It was a hotbed of sin in those days being the only town in Southern Kentucky that wasn’t dry, meaning you could buy all the booze you wanted. The town seethed with bars and pool halls but was best known for it’s local whore house, Pauline‘s. It was one of the last great brothels in America and was run with the full knowledge and cooperation of the local law establishment. Bowling Green was a place where while there was segregation there really never seemed to be much racial tension . Will had started playing music at a very early age and by the time he was a young teenager he would regularly visit the local black clubs to listen to the music, shoot pool and try to look cool smoking and drinking. At the age of thirteen he had a regular gig at the local black VFW post playing in a band that included Jim Coryell, brother of the great jazz guitarist Larry Coryell. Will remembers how once in a while a shotgun barrel would come out of the curtains that were at the back of the stage behind the drummer and point at someone in the room who would make a hasty exit. As the gigs started getting better, Will’s interest in what the Kentucky School system had to offer began to wane. For about a year Will had a running battle with the principal of the school where he would show up, be told to cut his hair, get suspended for a week for no compliance and then do the same thing the next week. Will finally walked out of the school for the last time on the day of the great Bowling Green Riot. What started as a simple fight between a few white kids and a few black kids became complete chaos when it was reported that the principle of the school had been shot on the local radio. Will walked out the doors a free man as the state militia was rushing the building.

It wasn’t long after that that Will’s band, having developed a kind of following, attracted the attention of a record company in Nashville. The usual things happened, promises where made and broken and in time the band broke up and went their separate ways. It was then that Will’s interest in Jazz lead him to Yellow Springs, Ohio where the great Jazz pianist Cecil Taylor had been allowed to take over the music department of the Antioch College. Antioch was the most progressive college of the sixties. The campus was like a free zone where basically anything went. It was a utopian society where you could do whatever you pleased if you weren’t hurting someone else. Will recalled how on the day that we landed on the moon the whole town took acid and wherever you went people were moon walking. Classes at the college where open to whoever wanted to come and Will immersed himself in Mr. Taylor’s classes and Jazz ensembles as well as playing in his own bands that were always in search of that elusive record deal. His best memory of that time was playing at an after party for the Mahavishnu Orchestra with Cecil Taylor hanging over the shoulder of the piano player and talking about how his ass wasn’t going to be in the ghetto when they bombed it as the Black Panther standing next to him was suggesting.

At the age of seventeen Will was in Colorado and was asked to join the Steve Getz Quintet. Steve is the son of the great Jazz sax man Stan Getz. Will played and recorded with Getz during the last days of the great Jazz clubs. Will remembers playing on stage with Dizzy Gillespie on New Years Eve on the final night of the Denver Jazz club Marvelous Marvs . Will had just turned eighteen at his last birthday. As the Jazz gigs started to dry up Will began to explore other creative outlets and soon moved on to Sunny Southern California.

Will had been attracted to the theater since he had played the Young Prince in a college production of A Mid Summer Night’s Dream. “What I really liked was the after parties. I was only about nine but all these hot college girls would make a big fuss over me. I thought it was great.” Will composed the music and played on stage with an avant-garde stage troop led by the Italian director John Mancini for about a year or so. The production was a strange concoction of little parables with Will in the corner of the stage playing the piano and making sound effects. Will says that the most memorable part of the show was trying to retrieve the live doves that were turned loose in the theater during the show. Someone eventually tried to kill someone else in the show and the curtain came down for good on that one..

That show got Will up on the stage as more than just a musician. Before long he was acting, writing and directing in shows that he was producing. United States International University offered Will a scholarship to attend their theater school in San Diego and he accepted. While there Will immersed himself in writing and directing and produced five plays. That was also when he began to write poetry and think about how to meld that with music. It was during a production of a Shakespeare play with Southern accents that he began to channel Hank Williams Jr and wrote the first song that he completed called Desiree. It tells the story of a wild young girl who grows up in a mining town and ends up married to the coal boss. The song is recorded on Will’s Second CD “Nice Obsession”.

Many more songs were to follow and after doing some small tours in England and meeting some great musicians there, including the late great Kenny Craddock, who had been Van Morrison’s music director for many years, Will decided to record his first Complete CD in the old country. He spent the better part of a year in a barn studio in the English country side and made a record that Dave Allen of the BBC called, “One of the best of the year”. The CD was an immediate hit on European and Australian Country music stations. It spawned five number one dance club hits and soon had Will and his band playing concerts and festivals in Europe and England even headlining shows at London’s Wembley arena. Will even had his own radio show that was broadcast to thirty-seven countries from the London studios of CMR. Since then, tracks from the “No Small Comfort”, CD have been used in feature films, choreographed for dance, used on US Air’s in flight music program and covered in Nashville.

Next Will signed a recording and publishing deal with the late legendary music mogul Lee Magid in Los Angeles and came back to live in Malibu. Back in LA he concentrated on recording but also once again began to delve into acting this time for film. He has since appeared in numerous films and television shows including the Sybil Shepard Show and the soon to be released thriller, Missing Audry.

The new band that Lee Magid put together for Will in Los Angeles would come to include, at Will’s insistence, a great young guitarist named John Depatie. Will remembers having the band together but couldn’t quite find the right guitarist. Then the Drummer said, “well, I know one other guy but he plays kind of an out there style.” Will said, “get him in”. Will is a huge fan of the Electric guitar and had always featured great players in his European band. John was just the right guy for the job.

Will and John have been playing together and producing projects for the last ten years. Including the “Nice Obsession” and the ‘Travel By Stars” sessions and the new “Clothing Optional Movie Sound Track.”

Will has just completed his first feature film as writer, director and composer with the help of his Wife Karen Loshbaugh who is the films cinematographer and editor. The film is comedy called “Clothing Optional” and has just been picked up for distribution with Indieflix.com. It will be making the rounds of the film festivals over the next year and has already been accepted into this years Wyoming Independent film festival.

Will has one other life long passion, horses. Will’s Father was a horseman who put Will on his first horse before he could even walk. Will is a USDF Silver medalist in Dressage as is his wife Karen Loshbaugh. In order to be closer to the competitive show circuit Will and Karen moved to San Diego a few years ago and have a business in Rancho Santa Fe called Art2ride where they train horse and rider to the Grand Prix level. You can visit them on line at www.art2ride.com

As of this writing, Will is working on a new CD that will become the sound track for his latest film project, “The Bone Yard”. A new feature film set to begin production this year. He’ll also be gigging with his band around Southern California, including for the third year in a row a summer concert for University City at Standley Park.