After the Ashtray Heart Prize win here’s winners BC and Joan’s prize! | Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen "The Bells of Rhymney” LIVE Boulder, CO

Thought we had posted this beauty!  A favourite Byrds song from Chris and Herb

[Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen]

Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen perform "The Bells of Rhymney" Live at eTown Hall in Boulder, CO

Some more Chris Hillman (featuring Stephen Stills) = MANASSAS 1972

In a different Hillman mood here with roots beyond Burritos and Byrds . . . . . Hillman / Stills’ Manassas! 

Manassas (feat. Stephen Stills) - 03 - Bound To Fall (1972)

Remembering that Manassas was an American rock band formed by Stephen Stills in 1971. Predominantly a vehicle for Stills' music, the band released two albums: 1972's Manassas and 1973's Down the Road. The band dissolved in October 1973. 

Manassas was formed in the fall of 1971, following Stills' concert tour to support his album Stephen Stills 2 (1971). While Stephen Stills 2 was Stills' second solo album, it was his first completed following the acrimonious 1970 breakup of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY), and was not critically well received. After a chance meeting with Flying Burrito Brothers singer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Hillman in Cleveland, where Stills' tour schedule crossed paths with that of the Burritos – a band that, by late 1971, had undergone multiple personnel changes and was in financial trouble[5] – Stills saw an opportunity to change his artistic direction. He subsequently contacted Hillman, asking him, along with Burritos' guitarist Al Perkins and fiddler Byron Berline, to join him in Miami at Criteria Studios to jam. Stills also invited several members of his touring band (drummer Dallas Taylor, bassist Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels, keyboardist Paul Harris and vocalist/percussionist Joe Lala) to play at the session.

for everyone but more for visitors  BC and Joan 

Chris Hillman - Ashes of Love /You Aint’ Goin’ Nowhere | for BC & Joan

Chris Hillman - "Ashes Of Love" 

For BC and Joan who love Chris and posted out post Byrds also started The Desert Rose Band with Herb Pedersen and John Jorgenson.  Today, I post a song from Hillman’s solo album, “Desert Rose” (Sugar Hill, 1984). This song was written by Jim & Jack Anglin and Johnnie Wright (of Johnnie & Jack) and has also been recorded by the likes of Buck Owens, Dickie Lee, and Jim & Jesse.

and for the Storm watchers. . . . .stay in doors and batten down the hatches folks here we have a weather warning - threat of life (red warning) has gone over (to amber)  but it is still life threateningly windy!

Ooh-wee, ride me high

Tomorrow's the day my bride's a-gonna come

Ooh-hoh, are we gonna fly

Down in the easy chair

Birthdays (contd) | Chris Hillman (& Herb Pedersen) - Given All I Can See (Live on eTown) & and Tom Petty’s Wildflowers | for BC & Joan

 Thanks to BC and Joan for the reminder but its Chris Hillman’s 80th Birthday too so we best have another before we close up for the night . . . . . . . how about this!? (these!)

How lovely is this . . . . . . . Byrd and Burrito Happy Birthday Mr Hillman sirrah!

Wildflowers

"Wildflowers" Live at The Troubadour | Chris Hillman

“for Tom"