The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Decades before Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt and The Jayhawks re-introduced and expanded the parameters of roots-rock, there was a scrappy little group, originally hailing...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Listen to The Flying Burrito Brothers performed at Sundown on February 24, 1982
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Listen to Chris Hillman performed at Bottom Line on November 5, 1977
Hip Hop Ruckus (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
More than $150,000 in cash and prizes will be up for grabs among the 62 winners in 20 categories for their songwriting efforts...
The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Entries are invited for the International Songwriting Competition 2008 . The deadline is 15 October. The panel of judges includes thirty-four major recording artists (e.g. Chris Hillman, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tom Waits) and twenty-one record company, agency, or media figures. More than $150,000 in cash and prizes will be shared among the winners, including an overall grand prize of $25,000 (US) cash. Entrants...
Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Nearly 30 years before Chris Hillman came face to face with Buck Owens at a Nashville awards show, a high school janitor sat him down with Owens' 1961 self-titled album.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Residents in six Davis County cities can attend Truth-in-Taxation hearings in August due to increases in property tax rates.
Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Add original Byrds member Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen to this year's Buck Owens Birthday Bash starring Martina McBride at the Crystal Palace Aug. 12.
The American Street (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Earl Scruggs and The Byrds, featuring Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke: . . And here’s something a little different and a little more recent , to finish your morning coffee with. .
Rock on the Streets (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Tom Waits and Robert Smith are just a few of the artists that will get a chance to judge other songwriters as part of the International Songwriting Competition (ISC). The ISC offers fledgling songwriter a chance to win cash prizes and other goodies and not to mention being judged by fellow musicians much more successful then yourselves. Also set to judge the even are Loretta Lynn , T-Pain , Neil Finn...
Lefsetz Letter (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
It's hard to hate Tom Petty, but he hasn't done anything truly memorable since "Mary Jane's Last Dance". And that was TRULY memorable. Which is why I always give his new stuff a chance. But somewhere along the line, he became self-conscious, at times even precious, and his music has suffered. [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Songcraft and emotive vocals elevated Gram’s act
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
LOS ANGELES, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Steve Earle, one of music's most respected and rebellious artists, a roots rocker with country flavor, emerged from Texas in the mid-'80s with a series of landmark albums, including COPPERHEAD ROAD, his third full-length release. Now, celebrating its 20th anniversary, the album receives the Deluxe Edition treatment, expanding the original gold album with a second...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 02/23/2008
Ms. Hillary is not "a real fine lady," and yet I am certain that John DiIulio's Weekly Standard article on her prospects at this point should have been titled in honor of the Roger McGuinn tune (video below, with McGuinn, Gene Clark, and Chris Hillman ): "Don't you write her off." At NRO's Corner, Victor Davis Hanson projects himself into the mind of the Clintons and opines: I still maintain that...
This Guy Falls Down (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
I found this treasure cleaning out the garage today, and it took me back. I was slow to get into CD's because I had so many cassettes, and after I did, I kept quite a few in my truck as...
