Chris Hillman

Chris Hillman has one of the most impressive C.V.s in rock. The four-time Grammy nominee and inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Byrds not only blazed trails with that band but with The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, and The Desert Rose Band.  Now, on the heels of a recent, well-received tour celebrating The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo as well as new and reissued solo works, Hillman has delivered an engrossing autobiography which reveals the man behind the country-rock through tragedies and triumphs.  Dwight Yoakam provides the introduction to this compulsively readable memoir: a must-have for fans of one or more of the above-mentioned groups.  (And who isn't?)  Hillman was there for the birth of country-rock, and modestly shares his memories of that captivating period - and all of the famous characters whose paths intersected with his own - while bringing his story up to the present day.