About Chris Hillman®


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GRAMMY Nominations:
- 1965 “Best New Artist” The Byrds
- 1987 “Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal” The Desert Rose Band (album)
- 1989 “Best Country Vocal Collaboration” Chris Hillman & Roger McGuinn “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (single)
- 1989 “Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal” The Desert Rose Band “She Don’t Love Nobody” (single)
National Academy of Recording arts and Sciences Hall of Fame:
- “Mr. Tambourine Man” The Byrds (1965)
- “Turn, Turn Turn (To Everything There is a Season) (1965)
- “Eight Miles High” (1966)
- “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” (1968)
Academy of Country Music Association Awards:
- Band of the Year/Touring – The Desert Rose Band – 1988, 1989, 1990
Country Music Association Nominations:
- 1989 “Horizon Award ” The Desert Rose Band
- 1989 “Vocal Group of the Year ” The Desert Rose Band
- 1989 “Musician & Vocalist-Album of the Year” “Will the Circle Be Unbroken Vol. 2
- 1990 “Vocal Group of the Year” The Desert Rose Band
San Diego Music Awards
- 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award – The Scottsville Squirrle Barkers
Colorado Music Hall of Fame Inductee – Manassas
Americana Music Association
- 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award Chris Hillman
Mojo Roots Award
- 2005 Chris Hillman
Broadcast Music Inc. – One Million Broadcast Radio Performances
- “One Step Forward”
- “Love Reunited”
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- 1991 Inductee The Byrds
Songs Written by Chris Hillman
recorded by other artists
Artists as diverse of the late Cowboy hero Roy Rogers, Tom Petty, Beck, Scottish Hard-Rockers Nazareth and Emmylou Harris have recorded songs written by Chris Hillman or by Chris and his various musical collaborators over the past four decades.
The Artists and a partial list of the songs include:
Beck (with Emmylou Harris) – “Sin City”
Sheryl Crow (with Emmylou Harris) – “Juanita”
J.D. Crowe – “Devil in Disguise” and “Sin City”
Steve Earle – “High Fashion Queen” (with Chris) and “My Uncle”
Teenage Fanclub – “Older Guys”
Dan Fogelberg – “It Doesn’t Matter”
Emmylou Harris – “Sin City”, “Wheels” and “Devil in Disguise”
Jimmy Ibbotson – “Wheels”
Rose Maddox – “Sin City”
Nazareth – “So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star”
The Oak Ridge Boys – “Step On Out”
Tom Petty – “So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star”
Tony Rice – “Devil in Disguise”
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Dusty Rogers – “God’s Plan”
Sid Griffin and the Coal Porters – “Time Between”
Patti Smith – “So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star”
Marty Stuart – “Wheels”
The Woodys – “He’s Back and I’m Blue”, “Sin City”
Dwight Yoakam (with K.D. Lang) – “Sin City”
Dwight Yoakam (with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) – “Wheels”