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As a co-founder of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, Chris
Hillman is arguably the primary architect of what's come to be
known as country rock. He went on to record and perform in various
configurations, including as a member of Stephen Stills's Manassas
and as a co-founder of The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. In the 1980s
he formed The Desert Rose Band, scoring eight Top 10 Billboard
country hits. He's released a number of solo efforts, including
2017's highly acclaimed Bidin' My Time - the final album produced
by the late Tom Petty. In Time Between, Hillman shares his
quintessentially Southern Californian experience, from an idyllic,
rural 1950s childhood; to achieving worldwide fame thanks to hits
such as "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Eight Miles
High"; to becoming the first musician to move to Laurel Canyon.
Featuring behind-the-scenes insights on his time in The Byrds, his
productive but sometimes complicated relationship with Gram
Parsons, his role in launching the careers of Buffalo Springfield
and Emmylou Harris, and the ups and downs of life in various bands,
music is only part of his story. Within the pages of Time Between,
Hillman reveals the details of his personal life with candor and
vulnerability, writing honestly about the shocking tragedy that
struck his family when he was a teenager, his subsequent struggles
with anger, and how his spiritual journey led him to a place of
deep faith that allowed him to extend forgiveness and experience
wholeness. Chris Hillman is much more than a rock star. He is truly
a founding father of American music and a man who has faced down
the challenges of life to discover what really matters.
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Roswell (DVD)
Kyle Maclachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, John M Jackson, Kim Greist, …
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Made-for-TV sci-fi drama starring Kyle MacLachlan as Intelligence
Officer Jesse Marcel, the original investigator of the
crash-landing at Roswell believed by many to be the work of aliens.
The film opens with Marcel as an old man. He attends a reunion of
his US Air Force unit and attempts to use the event to get to the
bottom of what really happened in New Mexico in the summer of 1947.
Back then Marcel and his commanding officer, Colonel Blanchard
(John M. Jackson), believed they had found evidence of an alien
landing, but were convinced by the powers that be to change their
story. Will Marcel manage to find an explanation that satisfies him
at last?
(Book). Nestled at the southern end of California's San Joaquin
Valley, the city of Bakersfield is best known for farming, oil
fields, and a unique brand of country music called the "Bakersfield
Sound." The term is generally used to describe a hard-edged
honkytonk sensibility characterized by sharp, twanging Fender
Telecaster guitars, crying pedal steel, and straight-ahead country
vocals a sound that thrived in Bakersfield clubs in the 1950s and
'60s. The music emanating from these venues was by no means
homogeneous. One need only compare Buck Owens's razor-sharp
honky-tonk attack with Merle Haggard's western swing and
blues-inflected recordings to recognize that there is no single
Bakersfield Sound. The label is best understood as an umbrella term
encompassing a number of strains developed by Haggard, Owens, and
their West Coast contemporaries. The Bakersfield Sound is a
full-color exploration of what social and economic factors led to
this country music hotbed, as well as a look at the many stars who
rose to fame with roots in Bakersfield. Country luminaries with
ties to the area include Bob Willis, Leon Payne, Jean Shepherd,
Dallas Frazier, Bonnie Owens, Barbara Mandrell, and Ferlin Husky.
Written by the experts at the Country Music Hall of Fame, The
Bakersfield Sound describes with rich words and classic photos how
the deep roots of the Bakersfield Sound are so much more than just
a reaction to the pop-oriented Nashville Sound.
Dwight Yoakam has long been known to country music fans as a
musiciam who is as much artist as he is superstar. Over the course
of his fifteen-year career, he has received fourteen Grammy
nominations. One reviewer described his work this way: "Yoakam's
lyrics--Leonard Cohen meets Ernest Tubb--work so well because
they're literary without being high-minded. The artfulness of the
words . . . doesn't always hit you until you read them on the lyric
sheet."Newsweek called Yoakam's most recent record--titled, like
his book, A Long Way Home--"a daring departure. It's lush and
languid, more introspective than hit-driven. He's looking for
subtle emotions, melodic evocations of the distances between
people, and he draws on sources as varied as Bobby Darin, Chet
Baker, and Buck Owens to get there."A Long Way Home is the first
collection of Yoakam's lyrics in book form. It spans his career,
from such early albums as Hillbilly Deluxe and Buenas Noches from a
Lonely Room to the recently released, critically acclaimed A Long
Way Home. Yoakam's songwriting is really storytelling--he
poetically writes of subjects ranging from God to drinking to
love--and proves him to be as fine a writer as he is a musician.
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