News courtesy of Stereogum this morning who report: “This fall, the Byrds’ Chris Hillman will release his first studio album in over a decade, Bidin’ My Time. It was produced by Tom Petty at his studio in SoCal, and featured guests on the recording include fellow Byrds David Crosby and Roger McGuinn, Herb Pedersen (who also served as executive producer), John Jorgensen, Jay Dee Maness, a bunch of Heartbreakers affiliates, and more. The album contains a few reworkings of old Byrds tracks and a number of Hillman originals. Check out the tracklist and a teaser for the album below.
Bid’n My Time Tracklist:
01 “Bells Of Rhymney”
02 “Bidin’ My Time”
03 “Given All I Can See”
04 “Different Rivers”
05 “Here She Comes Again”
06 “Walk Right Back”
07 “Such Is The World That We Live In”
08 “When I Get A Little Money”
09 “She Don’t Care About Time”
10 “New Old John Robertson”
11 “Restless”
12 “Wildflowers”
Chris Hillman, the bluegrass mandolinist turned electric bass player, was a significant player in several seminal bands of the sixties and seventies. None more important than The Byrds, but Manassas ran them a close second. His work with The Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons was, of course, uber-seminal to…
Sadly the track is embedded on Rolling Stone's page so you'll have to head there for a listen but it's worth the click. They report: "This fall, with his 73rd birthday looming on the horizon, Chris Hillman will release Bidin' My Time, a new album that both upholds and updates the…
Stereogum are previewing a track from the country-rock pioneer Chris Hillman, a founding member of both the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, who is putting out his first album in over a decade next month. "Appropriately entitled Bidin’ My Time, the LP was produced by Tom Petty, and Hillman decided…
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Chris, David, Roger ? That’s as good as it gets these days. Handful of UK dates would be in order.
Well, I can dream. Dreaming is free.