Chris Hillman says there was never any grand plan behind his decision to write about his life in music, a career that spans six decades as co-founder of legendary bands such as the Byrds and the ...
In Chris Hillman’s high-flying career, he's had a mid-’60s flight with the Byrds, and a brief but brilliant pairing with Gram Parsons in the Flying Burrito Brothers. Add to that his memberships in ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Petty once described him as one of rock music's most well-kept secrets, and Chris Hillman is fine with that. Fifty-one years after he picked up his first guitar, Hillman says ...
Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers co-founder Chris Hillman is a musician, singer, songwriter, and author. A third generation Californian, Hillman grew up hearing Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis ...
On Wednesday afternoon at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, Calif., the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum announced its next major exhibition: Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los ...
Tom Petty produced Chris Hillman’s most recent solo album, “Bidin’ My Time,” one of the last musical projects that he was involved with before he died two years ago. Hillman remembers an interview ...
When you think about the origins of country rock, a few names come to mind: the Byrds, Gram Parsons or the Flying Burrito Brothers. There's one name that may not be as readily familiar but whose ...
“We have lost a brother, a friend and a brilliant collaborator, and the world has lost a great songwriter, a pioneer of the Southern California sound that emerged in the 1970s,” the message begins. “J ...