This month we’ve seen the return of many beloved artists with new music: Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Hiss Golden Messenger, and even Chris Hillman. But it’s always exciting when something new breaks through, like Billy Strings, with his […]
We can be grateful that Chris Hillman has been biding his time. His first studio album in over ten years, Bidin’ My Time, shimmers with beauty, resounds with haunting melodies, and sparkles like a diamond, shining light from every musical facet […]
Regardless of whatever Chris Hillman chooses to do — or not to do — going forward, he’s already clinched his stature as one of the major initiators of Americana, an iconic individual who foretold the merger of rock, folk, country […]
Funny how the circle turns around You think your lost and then you’re found again Though you always look for what you know Each time around it’s something new again — Gene Clark, “Full Circle” Gene Clark wrote those words […]
Memory is a strange and wonderful artifact. When I was a teacher, students who were seniors referred to school habits as traditions, though much of what they referred to this way had just been initiated when they were in middle school. Family […]
When Jay Dee Maness started playing pedal steel guitar at age 10, he certainly couldn’t have imagined that 13 years later he would be playing on one of the most important albums in the history of pop music. Maness was […]
Though many music fans still do not recognize his name, Chris Hillman has had a monumental impact on American music and may have one of the most impressive resumes of any contemporary musician. He’s probably most famous for being a […]
While his former Byrds bandmates continuously garner accolades for their roles in fostering the development of country-rock, Chris Hillman has been the most consistent over the years in making musically engaging roots-flavored records. His latest solo effort is no exception. […]
No fuss, no mess, no struggle: This record of country duets is a simple, easygoing pleasure. And no wonder, as Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen, both undersung heroes of the California country-rock scene, are longstanding country and bluegrass pickers who […]
If Gram Parsons knew when he scribbled those words in a 1972 letter that 21 years later country music’s biggest stars would record a best-selling tribute album to the Eagles, he probably would have been aghast. Though his oft-stated desire […]
