ON THE ROAD WITH BILL and SUE-ON HILLMAN
A 50-Year Musical Journey
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www.hillmanweb.com/albums/album01.html ROW 2: Calling card with Wester Union logo in Chinese font created by an RCAF buddy ~ Bill & Sue-On on a Brandon pub stage ~ Bill and Gretsch at home ~ Tailgate promo shot for newspaper ~ Bill playing with student band ~ Sue-On promo shot at Maple Grove ~ Federal Grain stage on W. Canada tour ~ On stage at Strathclair Hall ~ Bill on TV show ~ Bill on Dauphin Rodeo Grandstand stage ~ Bill and Telecaster on stage ~ Band shadow promo shot ~ Calling card ROW 3: Band Promo Shot ~ Bill on stage at Strathclair Collegiate ~ Bill & Sue-On TV pose ~ Bill and Gretsch at CKX-TV ~ Side 1 record label ~ Winnipeg Grain Exchange where recorded ~ Side 2 record label ~ 3 shots of Sue-On at home ~ Band silhouette pose on rock pile ~ Session drummer Warren Hannay |
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www.hillmanweb.com/albums/album02.html Row 2: A and B record labels ~ Recorded at Century 21 Studio, King Edward St., Winnipeg ~ Eternals Band - Hildebrand and Paley Brothers (studio owners, musicians and engineers) ~ Sue-On by fireplace at our Maple Grove country home ~ Band on Brandon pub stage during break. Row 3: Bill and Sue-On recording a duet ~ Bill working on the mix ~ Sue-On and studio engineer, John Hildebrand ~ Barry Forman and session drummer Ted Paley ~ John setting up the 1/4" mix-down tape ~ Bill recording a vocal ~ Sue-On recording a vocal |
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www.hillmanweb.com/albums/album03.html Row 2: Album A-label ~ EP A-Label ~ Excellent and encouraging review of first-released original song, In Sadness, in BMI (PRO) trade magazine ~ Promo release notes from RPM Magazine ~ EP B-Label ~ LP Album 3, B-Label Row 3: Bill and Sue-On recording Blue Shallow River ~ Larry Clark who arranged and played keys and vibes for the session ~ Engineer Harry Hildebrand at the studio mixing board ~ Sue-On at the studio front office filling in for the studio secretary ~ Sue-On and Barry Forman having a chuckle ~ A leap ahead over 40 years to show the albums which were to follow this one. |
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CATFISH BONES | CHATTANOOGA PRISON TRAIN PHOTOS: Memphis/Nashville Crossroads, Ernest Tubb Record Shop, Grand Ole Opry Stage, In Tour Bus in Alberta, Century 21 Studios. STRIPS: Bill and Sue-On in our Maple Grove Studio sitting on our snooker table with Mya, our Great Pyrenees dog ~ In our home studio with Kevin Pahl at the Grand Piano while Barry Forman looks on ~ Bill at the Century 21 Studio mixing console with engineer Colin Bennett ~ Sue-On during one of our shows at CKX-TV studio, Brandon, MB ~ Chinese caligraphy by Sue-On's dad. * Larger images and much more in our Musical Odyssey series on the Web: A FEW SAMPLE SONGS (More at: www.hillmanweb.com/cd ) |
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FREEDOM TRILOGY | JOHN CAMPBELL, PIONEER * Gene Telpner's Column ~ Winnipeg Tribune ~ April 1, 1978 Telpner Refs: Hillmans, Ron Paley, Century 21, Roade, Strawbs, Glenn Axford, Burton Cummings, Loreena McKennitt, Thorney, and more. . . * RPM National Trade Magazine Review ~ March 4, 1978 * CHMM Country Chart ~ November 1978 ALBUM: * Front: Sue-On with multi-image lens * Back: Bill and Sue-On and Kevin Pahl in chamois leather patch stage outfits purchase on Oxford Street in London * Our Maple Grove Records labels front and back 45 SINGLE * Our original song "One Night Stand" that charted in the Top 10 INSERT PHOTOS * A few alternate takes www.hillmanweb.com/mglp07.html |
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Newcastle, England :: UK Tour No. 2 
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UK Music Tour 2 Album 7: The Newcastle Sessions Poster | Web | Card | Thumbnail | 5" |
.ALBUM IX
The Guardian Studio Sessions
Pity Me (near Durham), England
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WINNIPEG - EARLY '70s Location of Bill and Sue-On Hillman's early Canada sessions
(YOU WERE) ON MY MIND | KENTUCKIAN SONG * After their move to their expanded location we did more sessions using their 16-track facility, before our tours of England where we had many sessions at London's Gooseberry, Newcastle's Impulse, and Durham's Guardian studios. * Faces in the photo collage: Bill and Sue-On, Barry Forman, and Century 21 guys: John Hildebrand, Harry Hildebrand, and Ted Paley. |
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Hillman Albums Nos. 4, 5 and 6 (No. 6 completed in London while on tour in England)
Both these albums featured all-original material 29 songs written by Bill Personnel: Bill & Sue-On (vocals * guitars * drums * production) Barry Forman (bass * fiddle ) ~ Kevin Paul (keys: Rhodes, grand, Clavinet) Colin Bennett, John Smith, John and Harry Hildebrand (engineers) Guests on a few of the drum tracks were Mark LaFrance and Gord Osland
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Our first four original songs featured on an extended play disc ~ 1972
BLUE SHALLOW RIVER | IN SADNESS More reviews, lyrics, songs in MP3, photos and trivia at the ALBUM No. 3 and ALBUM 4 pages The photo was taken at our country home in front of the stone wall that my grandfather built with stones originally from the stone house built when my great grandfather homesteaded the land in 1878: John Campbell, Pioneer recording 1976 BLUES 'ROUND MY DOOR TWO LOVING ARMS |
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Free Spirit ~ Forman Fiddles 
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Free Spirit 
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HILLMAN PHOTO ARCHIVE: POSTER MOSAICS
Intro
| Early Years | 60s
Decade | 70s Decade
| Recordings
| UK | 80s
and 90s | 21st Century
| Sue-On | Roots
| Gigs
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