Songs from the Hills - Dick Bills CD
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Songs from the Hills - Dick Bills CD
Dick Bills and His Sandia Mountain Boys rose to fame playing country western music and early rock n roll in Albuquerque in the 1950s. Dicks nephew, Glen Campbell, honed his chops playing guitar in his uncles band when he was only 15, playing five days a week while also appearing on the radio show Dick Bills and his band hosted on station KOB in Alburquerque. Presented here is a rare album Dick recorded in California around 1960, mostly solo accompanying himself on guitar with the flashy guitarist Hershel Witt appearing on some of the tracks for added spice. Songs From The Hills features a few Jimmie Rodgers classics, which were a big favorites of Dicks, and other classic C&W songs such as Floyd Tillmans "It Makes No Difference Now" and Johnny Bonds "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight." All selections have been newly remastered.Additional Info: The last of the original Archies albums, 1971's This Is Love is the weakest of the lot. By this point, the principals of the project were more interested in other jobs; Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, who had previously been executive producer Don Kirshner's primary collaborators, had already skived off to focus on Kim's solo career, contributing only "Together We Two," a Ron Dante and Toni Wine duet that sounds like an outtake from one of the earlier albums. Even odder, the characters from the Archies cartoons are nowhere to be seen on the sleeve, nor are they mentioned in the liner notes. However, despite a higher-than-usual ratio of trash to treasure (the first couple of Archies albums are surprisingly strong for the same reason that the first four or five Monkees albums tended to be excellent: they needed a higher number of potential hits to feature in the TV show), This Is Love is not entirely dismissible. The title track is slight but charming, and the countrified "Should Anybody Ask" has the psychedelic cowboy charm of one of Michael Nesmith's more fanciful tunes. Then there's the four-minute throwaway jam "What Goes On," unfortunately not a bubblegum cover of the Velvet Underground's similarly titled classic but co-producer Richie Adams' Vietnam commentary, which is about as interesting and insightful as one might expect. For hardcore bubblegum fans only. ~ Stewart MasonSpecifics
- Album: Songs from the Hills
- Artist: Dick Bills
- Label: Essential Media Mod
(CD-894232571625)
| SKU | CD-894232571625 |
| Barcode # | 894232571625 |
| Brand | Essential Media Mod |
| Shipping Weight | 0.0710kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.140m |
| Shipping Height | 0.010m |
| Shipping Length | 0.140m |
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