As part of Los Super Seven's all star ensemble, Raul sang lead vocals on two tracks of the Pan-Latin album entitled Canto, which was released in March 2001.

Among other side projects, Raul recorded "Downbound Train" for the Bruce Springsteen tribute album and has written music for and recorded songs for children's educational videos! 

Paul: Paul has provided his talent on David Mead's debut album entitled The Luxury of Time - one track [World of a King] appears on the movie soundtrack of "Boys and Girls".  Paul has also worked with Bob Woodruff and Lucinda Williams. He's also played and recorded with a rock band called Hurricane Mills Revival and worked on the debut release of the Raybon Brothers album.

Along with Robert, Paul  has been touring with Kevin Montgomery and the Roadtrippers.

Robert: Teaming up with Jerry Dale McFadden, Ken Coomer and Doug Powell, Robert forms one of the core members of the band SWAG. Originally started as a writing project, the band has recorded and released some of their work. 

In 1997, Robert participated in the Buddy Holly Music Festival in Lubbock, Texas, in a band he put together called The Everydays. 

Robert, along with Scotty Huff, have written songs with Dave Hardin. They liked Dave's CD so much they invited Dave to Nashville to write together! 

Along with Paul,  Robert forms one of the core members of Kevin Montgomery and the Roadtrippers.

Robert's side projects include working with Scotty Huff [Havana Horns] writing and recording music and songs for children's educational videos! 

SWAG Bag ... SWAG first took shape on the Mavericks' tour bus! The idea for the side project was born when Robert and Jerry Dale McFadden spent late nights on the bus playing classic pop songs to each other. Both have a love for all kinds of music, but share a particular interest in pop music of the ‘60s. SWAG simply means “promotional freebies” in the music business. According to Robert, SWAG is an apt name for the band, as all its members make their living playing in other bands, and SWAG is the fun, free stuff.

The band is a "booty" of members from several bands, including  Wilco - and The Mavericks. SWAG have completed a 12 song CD entitled Catch-All, aptly reflecting both the diversity of musical influences represented in the 12 tracks and the different musical backgrounds of each of SWAG's members. 

In addition, SWAG have recorded tracks for two tribute projects.  The first is a tribute to Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra's classic, "Don't Bring Me Down". This was originally recorded by Lynne and ELO for their Discovery album, by which point Lynne was phasing out the "orchestra" and relying more on synthesizers and programmed drums in his production.  SWAG's version is "more of a band interpretation."  Other artists contributing to the project include Todd Rundgren and The Hollies.

The second project has different artists remaking each of the songs from the classic Who album The Who Sell Out. SWAG have recorded "Early Morning Cold Taxi", a track not actually found on the original The Who Sell Out vinyl LP, but taken from the same sessions and later included as a bonus track on the re-mastered and expanded CD version.

Paint ... The idea for the band was formed when Robert teamed up with singer/songwriter Kevin Montgomery at a tribute to Buddy Holly in September '99. The two discovered that they shared a love for '60s and '70s country-rock music, and so the idea began to take shape.

Plans were made to form a band which would encompass the singing/songwriting talents of Kevin and a number of different musicians along with the energy and drive of Paul and Robert. The rest, as they say, is far from being history, as the band has only just begun it's creative career. With a four track, self-titled promotional EP already in the band's discography, a full length album is to follow under the new band name Kevin Montgomery and the Roadtrippers.

The Mavericks Make Music for Children! Several members of The Mavericks have been composing and performing music for a series of animated children's videos, working together with producer Paul R. Gagne of Weston Woods Studios, a Westport, CT-based division of Scholastic, Inc.  For nearly 50 years, Weston Woods has created some of the best film adaptations of children's books for the educational market. The company's films and videos are well-known and loved by students, teachers and librarians around the world and are the winners of countless awards and honours.

Some of the recent projects that have featured Mavericks talent include:

Chato's Kitchen
Narrated by Cheech Marin, Music by Jerry Dale McFadden. Released April, 1999.  Recently named an American Library Association "Notable" video for both English and Spanish language versions.

Based on the book by Gary Soto with illustrations by Susan Guevara, this is the story of Chato and Novio Boy, a pair of cool, "low-riding" cats who make plans to have a family of mice over for dinner - as the main course!  But after Chato and Novio Boy spend all day in the kitchen preparing a delicious Mexican feast, they end up sharing a vegetarian meal with the mice, who show up with an unexpected canine friend.

Jerry Dale's lively musical score for this story bears a strong resemblance to the Latin sounds and instrumentations of The Mavericks' recordings of "La Mucura" and "Melbourne Mambo."  In addition to Jerry Dale's distinctive keyboards, the music features Raul Malo on bass and guitar, Scotty Huff on horns and the Latin rhythms of "Trampoline" percussionist Glenn Caruba.

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Miss Nelson Has A Field Day
Narrated by Diana Canova. Music by Robert Reynolds, Scotty Huff and Jerry Dale McFadden.  Released October, 1999. Winner of the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.

A 13-minute animated film based on the third book of the Miss Nelson trilogy by Harry Allard and James Marshall, in which everyone at the Horace B. Smedley School is "down in the dumps" over the poor performance of their school football team, the Smedley Tornadoes.  "It's the worst team in the whole state," laments Smedley's nerdy principal, Mr. Blandsworth.  They've even driven their coach into a nervous breakdown.  In steps the kindly Miss Nelson and her alter-ego, Viola Swamp ("the meanest substitute in the whole world," according to the kids at Smedley) to try to whip the team into shape in time for the big Thanksgiving Day game.

The music for this film is a quirky, inventive mix of musical styles completely different from anything the composers have done with The Mavericks.  It starts out with a marching band fanfare appropriate to the football theme of the story, then goes into a variety of different styles to
represent each of the characters and events in the story:  hilarious "nerd" music with backing vocals for Mr. Blandsworth's scenes; a badly-performed variation on the marching band fanfare for a scene depicting just how awful the Smedley Tornadoes really are; wacky "nervous breakdown" music (using a squeaking rubber duck as a musical instrument) for the scene where the coach cracks up, and so on.  There's even a little tribute to Sergio Leone's film scores in Viola Swamp's theme, which sounds like something straight out of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.  Robert, Scotty & Jerry Dale clearly had lots of fun working on this!

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Antarctic Antics
Music by Robert Reynolds and Scotty Huff. Scheduled for release in September, 2000.

This is another animated film, based on a book of poems by Judy Sierra about the lives of penguins in the Antarctic, with illustrations by Jose Aruego & Ariane Dewey.  Antarctic Antics gave Robert & Scotty the challenge of creating 11 separate pieces of music.  Some of the poems will simply be read by a narrator with background musical accompaniment; others have been turned into full-fledged songs.  Some of the highlights include:

"Penguins' First Swim" - A counting rhyme turned into a song with a Beach Boys groove.  Scotty does most of the lead vocals and The Luxury Liners, a Nashville-based vocal band, provide five part harmonies along with Robert.

"Predator Riddles" - A set of three short poems about animals that are dangerous to penguins, narrated by Robert (killer whale), Scotty (skua bird) and Kimberley, wife of the Havana Horns' Matt Nygren (leopard seal).  The background music has a jazzy, sinister feel similar to parts of Angelo Badalementi's music for Twin Peaks.

"Belly Sliding" - A penguin sings about the joys of gliding across the ice, "solely fueled by penguin power." Another great lead vocal by Scotty.

"Be My Penguin" - This has been turned into a Mavericks-style ballad reminiscent of "I Should Have Been True," with lead vocal by none other than Raul Malo!  It's very beautiful and sweet, but extremely funny for the utter seriousness with which lines like "the curve of your beak makes my flippers grow weak" are sung!

"Antarctic Anthem" - The film's finale and biggest production number.  It's a "We Are the World"-style rock anthem, with Scotty, Robert and a female vocalist trading the lead on the verses.  With lines like "Antarctica, Antarctica, where winter days are dark-tica" in the chorus, it's hard to imagine the performers being able to get this on tape without constantly cracking up ...

With Robert and Scotty having recently completed the soundtrack for this project, FableVision Studios in Boston is now working on the animation. Weston Woods expects to have the video finished in time for a Fall 2000 release to the educational market.

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Pete's A Pizza
Music written and performed by Raul Malo. On this project, Raul played all the instruments that form the theme music for this short video. Narrated by Chevy Chase, the story is based on the book by William Steig. When rain prevents Pete from playing outside, his father attempts to cheer him up by making him into a "pizza". Using talc as flour, bits of paper as cheese, Pete is soon ready to be "baked" on the sofa.

Raul gave an Italian flavour to the theme music, along the lines of "That's Amore".

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While Weston Woods' films are currently sold primarily to the US school and library market, Scholastic has plans for a children's television series and an eventual home video line based on the company's product.