Chris Hillman
The Squirrel Barkers always have a special place in my heart.
My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.
When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.
The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.
Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.
I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.
I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.Collection: Writing
"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rockCollection: Music
It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love playing acoustically. This is the way I started. Herb and I met each other forty years ago when we were both eighteen years old, playing bluegrass, and that's what drew me into music, and I enjoyed every particular part of my career. But now I enjoy it because it's the twilight of my career, where I can play what I want and I can play when I want and where I want. And that's the greatest part it all. So it's sort of a right that I've earned. I can record records the way I want to.Collection: Twilight
Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.Collection: Light
If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymoreCollection: Truth