Chris Hillman, Marty Stuart, Roger McGuinn – Sweetheart Of The Rodeo 50th Anniversary (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:57 minutes | 850 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Country Rock
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In 2018, Roger McGuinn and I teamed up with @martystuart and His Fabulous Superlatives for a 50th anniversary salute to Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Today, we announced the release of Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, With Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of Sweetheart Of The Rodeo set for Record Store Day 2024, April 20, as a limited edition 2 LP Translucent Gold Vinyl of 2,500 pressings, in a stunning gatefold cover. The album includes 24 tracks, selected from various stops on the 23-city, 27-show tour by Stuart’s audio engineer and the album’s producer, Mick Conley, and mastered for vinyl release by long time Byrds re-issue producer Joe Reagoso.
This was one of the best tours—if not THE best—I was ever on in 60 years of being in music. Every night was exciting. I couldn’t think of anybody else to do that presentation with other than Marty and the Superlatives. Listening to this live recording puts me right back on stage with Roger, Marty, Kenny Vaughan, Harry Stinson and Chris Scruggs.
~Chris
Chris Hillman – Bidin’ My Time (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:05 minutes | 398 MB | Genre: Country Rock, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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It’s hard to imagine a better producer for Chris Hillman than Tom Petty, who pledged a proud allegiance to the Byrds with his 1976 debut. That was the same year Hillman began his solo career, putting both the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers behind him, and if that record didn’t burn up the charts, he wound up finding commercial success in the ’80s as part of the Desert Rose Band. Once that group ran its course, Hillman and fellow Desert Rose Band member Herb Pedersen settled into a groove where they’d record and tour in a variety of configurations. Pedersen produced The Other Side, the 2005 album Hillman assumed was his farewell, but Pedersen convinced Petty to produce a new record and Hillman agreed, winding up with the warm, wonderful Bidin’ My Time. Designed as an intentional stroll through Hillman’s back pages, the album opens up with “The Bells of Rhymney,” one of several Byrds songs here. “She Don’t Care About Time,” a song written by Gene Clark, is here alongside the rarity “Here She Comes Again,” for which Hillman plays bass for the first time in decades. These are conscious evocations of the Byrds’ signature jangle, but on the whole, Bidin’ My Time’s heart belongs to the burnished folk and country of Hillman’s latter-day records. It’s a cozy sound, one that feels as intimate as a front porch but is delivered with the precision of seasoned pros, and having old tunes — including sweet covers of the Everly Brothers’ “Walk Right Back” and Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” — threaded in between the excellent new tunes from Hillman helps make Bidin’ My Time feel like an understated summation of everything Hillman’s accomplished in his long, varied career.
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