 Albums
Goodtime Music 1973
Our first studio work to be recorded but actually not released till 2011. That's a long time to wait, man!
Long Time No See
Recorded LIVE at Bjorling Concert Hall, Gustavus
Adolphus College, St. Peter,
Minnesota, December 19, 1993.
It's About Time
Our first studio album to be released, which was actually recorded second, but ... oh what the heck ....
Blatant Self-Aggrandizement:
MANKATO FREE PRESS
By Drew Lyon
Special to The Free Press
MANKATO — In the early 1980s, about 15 years after forming City Mouse,
Billy Steiner’s band met a crossroads. Wearied from the rigors of the
road, changing musical trends and a lineup in perpetual flux, the gritty
Mankato group known for its eclectic brand of “good time music”
languished in disrepair.
“We were pretty dark and cloudy by that point,” said Steiner, the band’s
lead vocalist and harmonica ace. “There was some negativity going on
and it just didn’t feel right; it wasn’t what City Mouse was supposed to
be.”
By 1986, Steiner had assembled a bevy of affable cohorts (keyboardist
par excellence Dale “Hawk” Haefner, acoustic guitarist Ron Arsenault and
remnants from the then-defunct Ace in the Whole Band) who helped usher
in a new chapter defined by its relaxed continuity.
(Continued here.)
MANKATO FREE PRESS
Thumbs Up To City Mouse.
The Mankato-based band has been a staple of good music and good times
for 35 years.
When Billy Steiner started the band in the early ’70s, he couldn't
have dreamed it would begin a decades-long gig that would go through
more than 30 members and remain strong today.
By Amanda Dyslin
MANKATO FREE PRESS
As two men sit and talk about 35 years of progress and change, history
literally lies beneath their feet.
It was on this very spot on New Year’s Eve in 1972 — at the
front of what is now T.J. Finnegan’s Pub on Front Street in Mankato — that
Billy Steiner of City Mouse was on the verge of something. He was in the
early stages of a band that would go through more than 30 members, that
would become a Mankato country-rock staple at bars and festivals, that
still is going strong today, playing about a hundred gigs a year.
By Amanda Dyslin
MANKATO FREE PRESS
City Mouse is the only band on the Rock Bend Folk Festival roster to have
played every year since the festival’s inception.
This year, Rock Bend’s Sweet 16 to kick off Saturday in St. Peter,
will be no exception. Frontman Billy Steiner is looking forward to playing
the Pavilion stage Sunday afternoon like he has every year.
by Mark Steil
Minnesota Public Radio
Each June in Mankato you can find great music in a strange location. It's
a concert in a quarry. A working quarry. Each year it produces thousands of
tons of crushed rock for the construction industry. But in June the quarry
becomes a stage. Thousands of people show up to listen to a symphony orchestra
and a blues rock band.
City Mouse member to get into Hall
MANKATO FREE PRESS
City
Mouse frontman Billy Steiner is among the inductees to the 2002
Minnesota Music Hall of Fame.
Steiner
started City Mouse in the early 1970s as a folk rock band, and throughout
three decades, it has become one of the area's most popular bands. Rock,
blues and ballads make up the blend of what the band terms its "goodtime
music." Steiner performs on guitar, harmonica and vocals. He also performs
with the Lost Walleye Orchestra, a smaller version of City Mouse.
 It’s
about time for City Mouse CD
Band has been a local staple for 28 years but this is its first album
By Joe Tougas
MANKATO FREE PRESS
Temperatures in hell dropped to an all-time low Dec. 17 [1999] when City
Mouse, Mankato’s
foremost bar band, actually released an album after nearly 30 years of active
playing.
City
Mouse "It's About Time"
Aquarium Records (20072)
by Mark
Halverson with assistance from Joe Tougas
City Mouse has been performing in the Upper Midwest area for over thirty
years on night club, college, and concert stages for thousands of appreciative
fans. The current lineup of seasoned players has been playing together
since 1986, playing a musical blend of country, bluegrass, country-rock,
blues, and five-part a cappella vocals. Every member of City Mouse
has been a finalist for a Minnesota Music Award in various individual
and group categories.
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