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Glen D. Hardin
Emmylou Harris
John Hartford
Lee Hazlewood
Joel Scott Hill
Robert J. Hippard
Roy M. Huskey
David Jackson
The Jayhawks
Bob Johnston
John Jorgenson
The Journeymen
Keyboardist Glen D. Hardin joined the Crickets in the early '60s, performing on such UK hits as "Don't Ever Change," "My Little Girl," and "(They Call Her) La Bamba." In 1965, he became keyboardist for the Shindogs, the house band for the TV music show Shindig. In that band he worked with Delaney Bramlett and, more importantly for Hardin, James Burton.
In the late '60s, Hardin and Burton joined Elvis Presley's TCB Band, but continued to do sessions. In '71, Hardin played with Gib Guilbeau's combo, Swampwater. Hardin also played on both solo albums by Gram Parsons, leading to a regular position with Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band. Other sessions include Michael Nesmith, Linda Ronstadt, the Dillards, Rodney Crowell, and Chris Hillman's LP Desert Rose (Sugar Hill, 1984).Emmylou Harris
No figure has been more successful in spreading the songs of Gram Parsons -- and his gospel of Cosmic American Music -- than his protégée, singer Emmylou Harris.
Harris started out singing folk music in the small clubs of Washington D.C., where her crystal- clear voice caught the attention of Burrito Rick Roberts, and then Chris Hillman. Hillman brought Parsons to see her, and he soon realized that her voice complemented his own perfectly. She added her beautiful harmonies to both Gram Parsons solo albums and toured with his band in 1972 and 1973. During that time Parsons introduced her to classic country music, what he and she both called "the high lonesome" sound, and to his ideas about roots music of all types. After the death of Gram Parsons in 1973, Harris took over the reins of his last band, the Fallen Angels. Her first album, Pieces of the Sky (Warner Bros., 1975), did what the Parsons LPs could never do -- scored on the country and the pop charts. Throughout her long career, Harris has released album after album of tastefully rendered music, from rootsy acoustic country to graceful pop. She has surrounded herself with talented songwriters and accomplished musicians like Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Albert Lee and Sam Bush. She has received the recognition of her peers in the form of numerous Grammys and awards from the Country Music Association. She also served as president of the Country Music Foundation in recent years. For more information, see this Emmylou Harris site.John Hartford
John Hartford is a well-known banjo player and multi-instrumentalist who wrote "Gentle on My Mind," a hit for Glen Campbell in 1967. Hartford contributed banjo and fiddle to Sweetheart of the Rodeo in 1968. He has since released several solo albums, mostly on the Flying Fish label, and two albums with Doug and Rod Dillard. For an overview of his solo career, check out Me Oh My, How Time Does Fly: A John Hartford Anthology (Flying Fish, 1987). Check out the cool official John Hartford Web Page.
Lee Hazlewood
Lee Hazlewood was an Arizona DJ who, with his partner Lester Sill, became a writer, producer and mentor for the young Duane Eddy from 1957 to 1961. In '62 Sill and Hazlewood produced "Teach Me How to Shimmy" for the Coasters (by then well past their peak).
In 1966, Hazlewood made Nancy Sinatra his next protégée. She scored a huge hit with "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'." Hazlewood wrote songs, played behind, and occasionally dueted with Sinatra until well after her star had faded. Hazlewood rejoined Nancy Sinatra's band for her 1995 "comeback tour." Hazlewood signed the International Submarine Band to his label, Lee Hazlewood International, in 1967. Joel Scott Hill
Guitarist and vocalist Joel Scott Hill appeared on Chris Ethridge's solo album, L.A. Getaway (Atlantic, 1971). That same year, he had the difficult task of replacing Al Wilson in Canned Heat. Hill can be heard on the group's albums for United Artists in the early '70s.
In 1974, Hill reunited with Ethridge in the reconstituted Flying Burrito Brothers. His vocals are heard on the two Columbia albums. With bandmates Gib Guilbeau and Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Hill then formed a band called Sierra that recorded one LP, Sierra (Mercury, 1977). Guilbeau and Kleinow then formed yet another version of the Burritos, which Hill did not take part in.Robert J. Hippard
Robert J. Hippard is an old friend of McGuinn's who became one of his most frequent songwriting partners over the years. Hippard helped land McGuinn a gig at the Troubadour when McGuinn first arrived in L.A. in 1964, so he is indirectly responsible for the formation of the Byrds. Many of the songs he has co-written with McGuinn have science-fictional themes -- "CTA-102," "Space Odyssey," and "Time Cube," for example. Hippard also co-wrote "Stanley's Song" and "Don't You Write Her Off."
Roy M. Huskey
The late, great Roy "Junior" Huskey was a well-known country session man and a master of the upright bass. Huskey was one of the country session men who played on Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Will the Circle Be Unbroken (United Artists, 1972) was dedicated to Huskey, who played upright bass on the entire album and died at age 43 shortly after its recording.
Junior Huskey had a son, confusingly named Roy Huskey, Jr. The younger Huskey also became a skilled player of the upright bass. He was the bassist of Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers, and played on dozens of albums in the '80s and '90s, including works by Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Townes Van Zandt. He backed McGuinn and Hillman when they recut "You Ain't Going Nowhere" with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. Two (Universal/ MCA, 1989). The younger Huskey died of lung cancer at age 40 in 1997.David Jackson
David Jackson was bassist in LA's Hearts and Flowers, which also featured singer/ songwriters Larry Murray and Rick Cunha and guitarist Bernie Leadon.
Leadon and Jackson joined the first version of Dillard & Clark in 1968 and stayed with the group until Clark left in late 1969. On their second LP, he played not only guitar but also piano and cello.The Jayhawks
From Minneapolis, the Jayhawks feature singers and songwriters Mark Olson and Gary Louris. After two indy releases (The Jayhawks (Bunkhouse, 1986) and Blue Earth (Twin/Tone, 1989)), the band signed to Rick Rubin's label and released two CDs of mature, heartfelt music: Hollywood Town Hall (Def/American, 1992) and Tomorrow the Green Grass (American, 1995). Both the band's vocalists have mastered the Parsons drawl, and Louris's guitar work is a dead ringer for Neil Young's at times, but the band's appeal is not in their uncanny reproduction of their influences; it's the songs that capture perfectly the doomed but hopeful tone of Gilded Palace of Sin (A&M, 1969). Louris and fellow Jayhawk Marc Perlman accompanied Roger McGuinn on the two studio tracks from his CD, Live from Mars (Hollywood, 1996). Mark Olson has left the group, releasing The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers (Self-released, 1997). The rest of the Jayhawks released another CD on American, Sound of Lies (American, 1997). American has an official Jayhawks site.
Bob Johnston
Bob Johnston had quite a resumé when he agreed to produce Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde. He had worked on several of Bob Dylan's best LPs: Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia, 1965); Blonde on Blonde (Columbia, 1966); and John Wesley Harding (Columbia, 1968). He had also produced Johnny Cash's watershed live album, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (Columbia, 1968).
He would go on to produce Dylan's Nashville Skyline (Columbia, 1969); New Morning (Columbia, 1970); and Cash's follow-up, Johnny Cash at San Quentin (Columbia, 1969).John Jorgenson
Chris Hillman was lucky indeed to recruit talented guitarist and multi-instrumentalist John Jorgenson for the Desert Rose Band. Jorgenson was clearly a student of Roger McGuinn's guitar style, so that Jorgenson's playing had the effect of tying Hillman's DRB work to the sound of the Byrds. Jorgenson also played on McGuinn and Hillman's 1989 single with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, a remake of "You Ain't Going Nowhere."
Jorgenson backed the 1990 incarnation of the Byrds found on The Byrds Boxed Set. He also contributed guitar, bass, saxophone and sitar(!) to McGuinn's solo album, Back From Rio (Arista, 1991). Since leaving the Desert Rose Band, Jorgenson has been involved with guitar team extraordinaire the Hellecasters. This trio -- Jorgenson, Will Ray, and ex-Fairport Conventioneer Jerry Donahue -- specializes in twangy guitar instrumentals and has released CDs on Michael Nesmith's Pacific Arts label. Jorgenson's most recent project is an album with California country pioneer Rose Maddox, The Moon Is Rising (Country Town, 1996). The label has set up a site devoted to Rose Maddox & John Jorgenson with lots of wav.files from the CD.The Journeymen
The Journeymen were fixtures on the Greenwich Village folk scene during the early '60s, and recorded three albums of Kingston Trio-style folk music for Capitol. John Phillips later became the leader of the Mamas and the Papas. Scott McKenzie enjoyed brief success with the Phillips composition, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" in 1967. The third member of the trio, banjoist Dick Weissman, left in 1964, to be replaced by Phillips's girlfriend, Michelle Gilliam. She later married Phillips and became one of the Mamas and the Papas as well.
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