Baltimore's Arty Hill makes Great American Roadhouse Music.

 

 

"IF HONKY-TONK HAS A FUTURE, HOPEFULLY IT WILL SOUND A LOT LIKE [ARTY HILL'S] DRIFTIN' IN OR BRING OUT THE BIBLE (WE AIN'T GOT A PRAYER) (WILLIAM SMITH, HOUSTON PRESS).

 

Like Dale Watson, Redd Volkaert, and others carrying the cross for traditional country, Arty Hill remains faithful to country's roots while forging his own distinct songs that blend the old and new. Jackson Shake, I Left Highlandtownâ and Driftin' In, are "SONGS SALTED WITH TEARS AND STEEPED IN THE RICH BREW OF CLASSIC COUNTRY AND WESTERN THAT, IN THE RIGHT HANDS, NEVER LOSES IT POWER." (John Lewis, Baltimore Magazine). Arty's songs have been covered by Austin's TEXAS SAPPHIRES, and one of his bluegrass tunes was recently recorded by the Grammy-nominated KENNY AND AMANDA SMITH BAND.

 

With the Long Gone Daddys, Arty makes some of the best music around - "FIRMLY ROOTED IN THE COUNTRY TRADITIONS OF HANK WILLIAMS AND GEORGE JONES, YET FINDING EQUAL FOOTING IN THE EARTH QUAKIN' RATTLE OF SUN-ERA ROCKABILLY." (Miles of Music).

 

"Bar of Gold," their new CD of all original tunes on Cow Island Music, continues to set the standard for Americana. As Jason Ringenberg says in the liner notes "I DOUBT THERE IS A BETTER COUNTRY RECORD PUT OUT THIS YEAR...THE GHOST OF BUCK IS TRULY HONORED."