Biography
Adam Hill still has faith in the viability of American folk music. A firm believer that folk is not just a genre of the sixties, he prefers Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan and Jolie Holland to Joan Baez. Not simply adverse to the era, you’ll also find Oscar Pettiford and Gyorgy Ligeti in his record collection; he’s not your average guy with guitar. Case in point: how many singer-songwriters would begin an album with the prelude to Bach’s second cello suite arranged for trumpet, bass, and radio? Or, for that matter, would record the trumpet with the microphone placed inside a piano, the sustain pedal down? And although he reads the New Yorker magazine for the global political coverage as much as the contemporary short fiction and poetry, he writes lyrics with less of an activist approach of, say, Pete Seeger, and more of a literary awareness of, maybe, David Berman or John K Sampson.
Instrumentation
Solo: Adam Hill -- guitars
Duo:
w/ James Harris -- dobro
Trio:
w/ Travis Magrane -- bass
Kate Saylor -- fiddle
Discography
Thee P -- 2006
Four Shades of Green -- 2007
Them Dirty Roads -- 2009
appearing on:
The Sham -- Wide Awake (2004)
The Crosswalks -- New Ghost Lights (2007)
Taarka -- The Martian Picture Soundtrack (2007)
Rogue Motel -- Daylight Breaking (2008)
Yoyodyne -- Advice (2009)
Links
| http://www.misteradamhill.com |