Byron Hill – BHP RECORDINGS

Advance Release to Radio via Airplay Direct: July 8, 2024
Commercial Release at all popular outlets: July 26, 2024

Featured singles: “Mountain Folks Are Always High”, and “Younger”

Byron Hill was raised in North Carolina. By the time he was ten years old, his bluegrass, folk, and country beginnings grew by learning to play along with his Dad who loved to sing songs by The Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers, Flatt and Scruggs, and others.

Years later, while in college at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, Byron was introduced to some different styles of picking, particularly the music of Doc Watson. It was there in 1972 that Byron joined multi-instrumentalist Gene Wooten for a couple of years performing bluegrass around the Boone, Valle Crucis, and Banner Elk areas of NC, at fire halls, clogging and square dances, various local events. and they had a regular gig at the (then) Village Inn on Beech Mountain. After college Gene Wooten moved to Nashville, to play dobro for Wilma Lee Cooper, the Osborne Brothers, and Del and Ronnie McCoury, and Byron returned to his hometown of Winston-Salem, NC and started a trio called Red Cloud, performing many shows in the area 1974-1975.

Byron began taking his songs to Nashville in 1976, and moved to Nashville in 1978 jumping straight into a publishing deal at ATV Music Group writing songs for a wide-range of artists. Over the years his songs have been recorded by many bluegrass artists including Doc & Merle Watson, The Whites, Keith Whitley, Dusty Miller, The Special Consensus, Rhonda Vincent, Lonesome River Band, The Grascals, Bluegrass Etc., The Chapmans, The Seldom Scene, Mo Pitney, Trevor Watson, Dailey & Vincent, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, The Wisemen, Fast Track, and many others.

Byron’s songwriting also turned out a long list of hits and recordings by some of the greatest country artists of the time including George Strait (“Fool Hearted Memory”), Johnny Lee (“Pickin’ Up Strangers”), Sammy Kershaw (“Politics, Religion And Her”), Gary Allan (“Nothing On But The Radio”), Alabama (“Born Country”), George Jones (“High-Tech Redneck”), Neal McCoy (“If I Was A Drinkin’ Man”), Tracy Byrd (“Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous”), Ray Charles, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire, Don Williams, Randy Travis, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Seekers, and many others. To date, eighteen Country Music Hall of Fame members have recorded his songs. Byron was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018

Byron teamed up with the great multi-instrumentalist songwriter Glen Duncan to write the seven songs on this album. The musicians; Cody Kilby on Acoustic Guitar, Evan Winsor on Bass, Jonah Horton on Mandolin, Tim Crouch on Fiddle, Scott Vestal on Banjo, and Byron Hill all Vocals, additional Guitar, Irish Flute.

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Made in USA – BHP-7006