[citation needed] His debut album, Love's Gonna Carry Us (1981), featured Small singing and accompanying himself on guitar.
As his fame and success increased, so too did the production level of his albums, as he included more instrumentation, and appearances by other artists, including instrumental and vocal backing by popular New England folk artists.
[3] After graduating from Harvard Divinity School, he became the minister of First Church Unitarian in Littleton, Massachusetts in 1996.
Small resigned in September 2015 to devote his energies to climate advocacy.
His 1983 song "Everything Possible" was adapted into a picture book, illustrated by Alison Brown and published in 2023.