The Desert Rose Band News

Musician Chris Hillman was born on December 4, 1944. Yesterday he turned 65. We wish him a belated happy birthday.

When I heard Chris Hillman was recording a live album in Nipomo, I had to ask: "If I go and yell, 'Free Bird!' can I get on the record?" Hillman, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, laughed and obliged me.

As musical lives go, Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen have lived some of the richest.

Chris Hillman , a co-founder of The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Desert Rose Band, comes to Kirk Avenue Music Hall on Friday night with his musical sidekick, Herb Pedersen .

Guitar master John Jorgenson is best known these days for sublime acoustic "Hot Club" swing, but he's just as well regarded for his Americana, roots-rock, country and pop work, principally with the Desert Rose Band, Elton John and the Hellecasters.

THE Seamus Ennis Centre in Naul is staging a performance by John Jorgenson on Thursday, September 3rd.

If Chris Hillman just parked himself on his southern California couch, if he spent his time looking at his musical life in the rear view mirror instead of through the windshield, it'd be hard to fault that decision.

Most musicians would lunge at an opportunity to perform with Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan.