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Son Volt’s Trace

The reissue of Son Volt’s classic first album includes a Bottom Line show that I attended on February 12th, 1996. I went to The Bottom Line a lot in those days, in... Read More
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November 2015
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Huffington Post Interview

A Conversation with Bob Hillman Huffington Post 11.6.2015 Mike Ragogna: Bob, your new album Lost Soul was produced by Peter Case. How did this come together and were you already... Read More
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November 2015
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B-A-D Review

I opened for Suzanne Vega at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on Saturday, March 24th, 2001. The Fillmore holds 1,200 people, which was more than twice the size of any... Read More
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October 2015
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Album Cover

Sanford Biggers created the “shadow” image that will appear on the cover of my new album. Sanford works in a variety of media – including film/video, installation, sculpture, and performance –... Read More
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September 2015
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Making of Lost Soul (Part 2)

I’ve been back in San Francisco for a week after two weeks of recording in Los Angeles. By recording, of course, I mean “sitting in a dark room.” Besides a... Read More
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August 2015
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Making of Lost Soul (Part 1)

I spent the last few days with a group of musicians in a recording studio. This is not my ideal lifestyle in some ways. For example, I don’t exercise or... Read More
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August 2015
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Rockumentaries

What’s not to like about rockumentaries? Well, for one thing, they often lack dramatic tension. Or, if there’s dramatic tension somewhere in the story, we know about it already because it’s the... Read More
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July 2015
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Kickstarter

On June 5th, I celebrated my 45th birthday by launching a Kickstarter for my next recording project. The first two days were VERY busy: I launched on a Friday and... Read More
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June 2015
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Peter Case

Peter Case hit my radar in the early eighties, when The Plimsouls released “A Million Miles Away.” They were well known in Los Angeles, even among those of us who... Read More
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May 2015
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Bolted Down

I don’t remember much about writing Bolted Down, a song that would become one of my “hits.” It was when I was living in New York in the late 1990s,... Read More
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April 2015
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The Kinks

I discovered The Kinks on a cruise to Alaska. It wasn’t one of those rock and roll cruises, where you set sail with your favorite bands, because this was the... Read More
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April 2015
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Ted Cruz

I wrote a song about Ted Cruz, and posted a video of it to YouTube on the day he announced his candidacy for President of the United States. The song is... Read More
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April 2015
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